This is the ninth piece in a ten-part series looking at the fighters whose stories make Donald McRae’s Dark Trade the enduring classic that it is. Learn more about the 1st U.S. edition of Dark […]
No fighter is more overrated than a big puncher while they’re undefeated, even if they go on to become an all-time great. And if the puncher has legitimate skill to match their power like, say, […]
Most fighters risk a grim future for the chance at a glittering present. For now, at least, Adonis Stevenson has lost everything—including his mournful past.–Carlos Acevedo *** NEWSLETTER EXCLUSIVE! Our December issue of CAESTUS (subscribe here) […]
In boxing, the least a farce can do is end quickly; the favorite going purposefully about his business, the underdog crumbling accordingly. Because there is little to learn from so frivolous a spectacle, and woe […]
“The brief, harsh dramas that change the lives of fighters are often enacted in memorably peculiar places,” as Hugh McIlvanney once wrote. So it was for Donald Curry, when a little-known welterweight from South London […]
The best fighter in the world. You or someone you know believes Vasiliy Lomachenko is just that. Is he? The answer isn’t particularly important, in part because it is difficult to prove anyone’s claim to […]
Interview with Isaac Dogboe, by Sean Nam. See more Hannibal Boxing interviews >> *** Had he been born in an earlier era, say, when Lewis guns and the meat rationing were all the rage, Isaac […]
Adonis Stevenson waged a war on two fronts in 2018. Age, dogged in its assault, hounded the forty-one-year-old fighter in both his fights and his preparation; while youth, aspiring and robust, assailed him between the […]
Los Angeles—For once, the din of outrage failed to block out the hum of appreciation. Bad decisions, or at least those that are perceived as such, tend to ignite a wildfire of complaints: wretched cries […]
Interview with Adonis Stevenson, by Sean Nam. See more Hannibal Boxing interviews >> *** Whatever new feats Adonis Stevenson manages to accomplish between now and retirement, they will not likely be enough to rub out […]