This is the fifth piece in a ten-part series looking at the fighters whose stories make Donald McRae’s Dark Trade the enduring classic that it is. New U.S. edition coming from Hamilcar Publications November 15. […]
On a pouring Saturday night in London, Anthony Joshua suffered strife and delivered drama before triumphing at last via seventh-round knockout against Alexander Povetkin at Wembley Stadium. All of Joshua’s bouts since his coming-of-age against […]
Mike Jacobs’s critics said he was ruthless, heartless, greedy, ill-tempered, and uncouth. His admirers said the same things but would’ve added unscrupulous and two-faced. These attributes helped make Jacobs the most powerful promoter in boxing […]
Forget about the decision. Whatever your reaction to it, that reaction is explained by how accurately those scorecards reflected what you saw; and what you saw is probably influenced by what you wanted to see […]
If there is no such thing as a second act in boxing, to paraphrase a line from F. Scott Fitzgerald, there have at least been plenty of attempts to fashion one. But sometimes—just sometimes—the attempts […]
Almost a year ago WBA/WBC/IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin retained his titles via a draw against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. This weekend they’ll fight a rematch with the same […]
Never the world’s greatest mixer, I had accommodated myself to long silences at the 2004 International Boxing Hall of Fame dinner in Canastota, New York, even at a dinner table populated with eager pugilistic fans. […]
Nearly three and a half years have passed since Al Haymon launched Premier Boxing Champions and his unofficial welterweight tournament is only now near complete. Unofficial, of course, because even the most optimistic of a […]
This is the fourth piece in a ten-part series looking at the fighters whose stories make Donald McRae’s Dark Trade the enduring classic that it is. New U.S. edition coming from Hamilcar Publications November 15. By […]
This is the final installment in Carlos Acevedo’s After The Fall series looking at Floyd Patterson’s late career. “Glass jaw? I’ve been beaten, but only by champs. I’m still around after 17 years. If I […]
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