Browsing Tag Kell Brook
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Nothing Left To Prove
Most great boxers do not go gently into the good night of retirement, but instead rage and fight against the dying of the light. And while, having long ...
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“My Brain Is Okay!”
A few weeks ago I saw Errol Spence in a video from his training camp for Saturday’s showdown with Danny Garcia, Spence’s first fight in over fourteen months. ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 46
Time for a new podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, and it’s a jam-packed edition with Adam Abramowitz of Saturday Night Boxing joining Alden to talk the ...
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Fight Report: Crawford vs Brook
Pound-for-pound lists are not to everybody’s taste, but regardless of how you choose to rank the best fighters in the world, there’s no denying that Terence Crawford is ...
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October Fireworks
As we all know, boxing was off the air completely for many weeks this past spring due to the ongoing pandemic, before returning thanks to Top Rank’s summer ...
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Sept. 27, 1986: Curry vs Honeyghan
Remember when Britain’s Kell Brook tried to shake up the sports world by challenging knockout puncher Gennady Golovkin? Brook was a big underdog as he moved from welterweight ...
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Spence vs Porter: The Fight City Picks
You can make the case that this match-up should have happened a while ago. You can also point out that one of the two combatants didn’t look very ...
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Don’t Sleep On “One Time”
For my money, there is no hotter and more tantalizing division in boxing today than the welterweights. Historically, the 147 pound weight class has been the home of ...
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When Fighters Fought: Time for a Welterweight Renaissance
Speaking for fans of a certain vintage, we all have a special set of boxers, the ones that forged our love for the sport, the ones on those ...
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Enigmatic To The End
Amir Khan may be the nicest man I’ve spoken to in the entire fight game. If I had to consider all the people I’ve shared a few words ...
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Method To The Madness?
I’m moving up two weight divisions, and not just to fight any welterweight, but Errol Spence. At first glance, it seems nuts. –Mikey Garcia Four-division titlist and counter-puncher ...
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The Weekend That Was
In case the sport of boxing wasn’t brutal enough inside the ring, Maurice “Mighty Mo” Hooker and “Showtime” Shawn Porter showed just how taxing it could be outside ...
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Garcia vs Porter: The Fight City Picks
As one of our contributors discussed not that long ago, the current version of the welterweight division has all the necessary ingredients to give boxing fans plenty of ...
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Special K Ready To Rebound
A major theme of recent years in boxing is fan frustration with too many elite fighters taking too few risks. Whether it’s Floyd Mayweather side-stepping a match with ...
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New Breeds: Boxing’s Weirdest Fans
Some call them “fanagers.” Others just call them annoying. I’ve always referred to them as boxing’s “new breed of fan.” No matter, it all means the same thing. ...
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Don’t Count Him Out
This Saturday night, Lamont Peterson of Washington, D.C. will be in Brooklyn, New York to face Errol Spence Jr. for the IBF world welterweight title. While the welterweight ...
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2017 Performance of the Year
Nominees: Leo Santa Cruz (vs Carl Frampton) Oleksandr Usyk (vs Marco Huck) Andre Ward (vs Sergey Kovalev) Errol Spence (vs Kell Brook) Roman Gonzalez (vs Srisaket Sor Rungvisai ...
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2017: The Nominees
One thing we know for certain: 2017 was, in many ways, a very good year for professional boxing. Compared to recent years when significant matches were few and ...
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Fury vs Joshua: It Has To Happen
As of last week, lineal heavyweight champion of the world, Tyson Fury, has been cleared by UK Anti-Doping to fight again. News on the Furious One has been ...
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Boxing Gods, We Want Some More!
As diehard fight fans, every so often we take a long and thoughtful look at the assemblage of talent in the boxing world, all the top contenders and ...
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Next Step to Stardom: Spence vs Khan
Errol Spence Jr. is now a world champion, becoming one under circumstances not common to this generation of fighters. He took on the most talented welterweight in the ...
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Fight Report: Brook vs Spence
The Event: The welterweight division is one of the most intriguing in the sport at the present time and Kell Brook vs Errol Spence Jr. is one of ...
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Brook vs Spence: Closer to The Truth
Tomorrow night at Bramall Lane Ground in Sheffield, England, IBF welterweight titlist Kell Brook will defend his belt against fearsome up-and-comer Errol Spence Jr. If most fight fans ...
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Brook vs Spence: The Fight City Picks
As 2017 continues to be a stellar year for professional prizefighting, we come to one of the best possible match-ups in the welterweight division: Kell Brook vs Errol ...
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Q&A With Lee Wylie (No. 5)
Suffering from uncertainty about your lead shoulder feint? Having trouble with your distance management or footwork? Are tactical concerns regarding your favorite fighter keeping you up at night? ...
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Porter Defeats Berto: Time For Thurman vs Porter II
Multiple cuts and myriad head clashes couldn’t discourage Shawn Porter’s relentless onslaught against Andre Berto, resulting in a ninth-round stoppage win for “Showtime” that should lead to an anticipated ...
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The Khan Conundrum
At the Athens Olympics in 2004, the British boxing team consisted of a single pugilist: Amir Khan. The Bolton-born lad was alight with a Northern-English charm. He nonchalantly ...
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Golovkin vs Jacobs: The Fight City Picks
Say what you like, but Gennady Golovkin vs Daniel Jacobs is a legit, elite-level matchup, a clash of two of the very best in the middleweight class. Yes, ...
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Brook vs Spence: Boxing Moves On
What a difference a year makes. Truly, in 2016 I was genuinely worried about the state of pro boxing. There were times last year when it just seemed ...
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Respect For Brook And Cuadras
Only in boxing can a man be criticized for doing a poor job after fracturing his opponent’s eye socket. Sure enough, Gennady “GGG” Golovkin messed up Kell “Special ...
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