Throughout his career, Larry Holmes had been underestimated. When he started fighting his way up the heavyweight ranks while working as a sparring partner for Joe Frazier and Muhammad ...
On January 22, 2021 / By Michael Carbert“My heart will explode before I leave him alone for one second,” Ricky Hatton had promised prior to his showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. As it turned out, ...
On December 8, 2020 / By Matt O'BrienHBO’s Tapia begins with an overhead shot of the New Mexico desert. The camera pans across the yellow landscape and settles on a solitary man, walking with his ...
On November 13, 2020 / By Eliott McCormickIt was on this day in 1994 that the “impossible dream” was fulfilled. At age 45, former heavyweight champion George Foreman became the oldest man to win the ...
On November 5, 2020 / By Alden ChodashIt remains one of the more unlikely episodes in all of boxing history. A convicted criminal locked inside a maximum security penitentiary not only competed in sanctioned, professional ...
On October 12, 2020 / By Michael CarbertIt was the classic confrontation: age and experience vs youth and raw talent. Southpaw Daniel Zaragoza was the grizzled veteran, a survivor of 65 professional battles and some 21 ...
On September 6, 2020 / By Robert PortisSome would argue that James Toney’s first victory over Mike McCallum, which also happened to be his final defense of his middleweight title, is, all things considered, his greatest ...
On August 29, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskeyTwenty-two years ago, everyone knew that Roy Jones Jr. was “Superman.” Yes, he had suffered a disqualification defeat to Montell Griffin the year before, but that did nothing ...
On July 17, 2020 / By Lee WylieGolota gets eleven stitches, his head smashed open with a two-way radio. His trainer, 74-year-old Lou Duva, leaves the ring on a stretcher and is taken to hospital. ...
On July 11, 2020 / By David ComoThe final bell rings, the crowd roars, and the two warriors immediately embrace and then raise each other’s hands. This is the part of boxing that typically perplexes ...
On May 18, 2020 / By Jamie RebnerIn 1981 few doubted that Larry Holmes was one of the best boxers in the world, but rarely had the holder of the most coveted prize in all ...
On April 11, 2020 / By Robert PortisOne of my earliest boxing-related memories happened when I was seven. On a warm Saturday night my parents took me to my favorite restaurant, the one that served ...
On March 18, 2020 / By Rafael GarcíaIt’s 1996 and HBO has decided to start a new series of live boxing, providing fight fans with more excitement and their prizefighters with more exposure. At that time, ...
On February 3, 2020 / By Robert PortisDressed in black spandex and sporting her long blond hair in pig tails, Heather Hardy stepped into the ring at the BB King Club and Grill in mid-town ...
On January 27, 2020 / By B. A. CassIn a way, it makes perfect sense that the true stand-out prizefighter of the past decade would become for many boxing fans, if not most, something of an ...
On December 31, 2019 / By Michael CarbertOn January 22, 1973, a broadcasting start-up by the name of Home Box Office debuted in the sport of boxing, bringing viewers George Foreman’s legendary second round annihilation of Joe ...
On December 10, 2018 / By Alden ChodashThe Event: One year ago, the world awaited Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s 19th defense of his middleweight title against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. The fight had it all: two pound-for-pound ...
On September 16, 2018 / By Alden ChodashBelieve it or not, there are a total of 102 recognized ‘world’ championships in existence in professional boxing today. Discounting the 34 champions which may be of an ...
On August 26, 2018 / By Alden ChodashThe Event: Going into Saturday’s pivotal light-heavyweight affair, many questions loomed regarding Sergey Kovalev’s viability as an elite light-heavyweight following back-to-back losses to Andre Ward in 2016 and ...
On August 5, 2018 / By Alden ChodashThis edition of my semi-regular weekend recaps is late and is going to be a bit on the random side because your friendly scribe here tripped over a ...
On May 14, 2018 / By Robert PortisOnce again Showtime and HBO go to war with major fight cards on the same night and the bottom line is fight fans got some great action, so ...
On March 4, 2018 / By Robert PortisNot that there’s any lack of evidence to help people understand why boxing will most likely never regain the kind of mainstream acceptance that it enjoyed in decades ...
On March 3, 2018 / By Neil CraneSrisaket Sor Rungvisai enters tomorrow night’s “Superfly 2” card as the “A-side” of a marquee, HBO-televised main event, something that, a year ago, would have been unthinkable. But ...
On February 23, 2018 / By Zachary AlapiThe Event Place Bell in Laval last night hosted a massive fight card, flooded with local talent and headlined by the middleweight championship bout between Britain’s Billy Joe ...
On December 17, 2017 / By Robert PortisThe Event Not that long ago, Sergey Kovalev was widely regarded as, pound-for-pound, one of the best boxers in the world. Dominant wins over Nathan Cleverly, Jean Pascal ...
On November 26, 2017 / By Robert PortisSergey Kovalev says he’s a new man. In a fascinating Sports Illustrated article, Kovalev makes it clear that he had a religious experience after the disastrous rematch with Andre ...
On November 23, 2017 / By Sean CroseThere is little doubt that WBA lightweight champion Jorge Linares is among the best fighters in the world, but an uneven performance against Luke Campbell suggests the end ...
On September 24, 2017 / By Danny HowardGolovkin vs Canelo. The hangover. What a beautiful fight! But the judges and politics and corruption had to screw up everything! Golovkin won that fight! Here’s Manny’s thoughts ...
On September 18, 2017 / By Manny MontrealIt’s a match we’ve been waiting for since at least November of 2015 when Saul Alvarez defeated Miguel Cotto to win the lineal middleweight championship of the world. ...
On September 13, 2017 / By Robert PortisLast March the boxing world was in collective shock when the mighty Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, boxing’s consensus #1 pound-for-pound fighter, was left bloodied and narrowly defeated at the ...
On September 8, 2017 / By Danny Howard“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
– George Foreman
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