The least interesting part of his return was the fight. It’s okay, you can admit it. That is a strange thing to say considering the headliner is a darling of boxing’s most devoted band of […]
Saturday night in London saw a man on the far brink of exhaustion toppled but not felled by a man freed suddenly from the grip of torpor, alas, too late. Had Joseph Parker not spent […]
This is the second installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** Is it any wonder I reject you first? Fame, fame, fame, fame Is it any wonder […]
“That’s him,” you tell your friend, “the tank with the military haircut, the gap between his front teeth, a touch of the unhinged in his gaze.” Tapping the screen, you make the pixels swirl with […]
The view of Amir Khan and Kell Brook that prevails today in boxing circles corresponds roughly to their respective failures to get themselves a meaningful and lasting antagonist. That both fighters have suffered multiple losses—meaning […]
In a fight that some will lament mistakenly as coming years too late, Manny “Pac Man” Pacquiao faces Lucas “The Machine” Matthysse on Saturday, at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur. Because it is only […]
Interview with Regis Prograis, by Sean Nam. See more Hannibal Boxing interviews >> *** Long before op-ed columnists decided that precarity was the exclusive condition of Uber drivers, Air B&B hosts, and other foot soldiers […]
This is the first installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** Oh, I see myself in a brand new way.—Boston November 10, 1978 There was no […]
The same week that EU representatives issued a last call to the UK over Brexit, another ailing transnational negotiation finally collapsed when Deontay Wilder walked away from a deal with Anthony Joshua and Eddie Hearn. […]
Interview with Dmitry Bivol, by Sean Nam. See more Hannibal Boxing interviews >> *** Though WBA light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol credits a childhood under the spell of Jackie Chan films with guiding him toward a […]