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Month: July 2019

Boxing Profiles

The Drunken Master: On Emanuel Augustus

July 31, 2019 Jimmy Tobin

While preparing for his May 2012 fight against Miguel Cotto, Floyd Mayweather Jr., then 42-0, was asked to name his toughest opponent. His answer was the same as it had always been: Emanuel Augustus. He […]

Sport, Boxing, World Middleweight Title, pic: 28th June 1980, Great Britain's Alan Minter arms raised high after his Wembley fight against USA's Vito Antuofermo had been stopped in the 8th round with the Briton retaining his World Middleweight title (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Interviews

Something You Dream Of: Alan Minter Looks Back

July 30, 2019 Paul Zanon

“I’m proud of what I’ve done,” said Alan Minter. “Of course I am. I was three times middleweight champion of Britain, three times champion of Europe and the undisputed middleweight champion of the world, which […]

Boxing Profiles

Maurice Hooker on Jose Ramirez Fight: “It Will be a Good Night for Me”

July 25, 2019 Sean Nam

The sparring session transpired nearly ten years ago, behind closed doors, in a sun-kissed gym situated along a light-rail overpass outside of downtown Dallas. Arnie Verbeek remembers it like it was yesterday—as he should. He […]

Boxing Profiles

“It Can All End with One Punch”: Hall-of-Famer Lennox Lewis on the Heavyweight Division

July 23, 2019 Declan Taylor

Lennox Lewis, dressed head-to-toe in white, presses his back into his chair and wraps a giant fist around the end of each arm. “I feel like, right, now I’m in my throne, I’ve got the […]

Boxing Analysis

Good Time: Manny Pacquiao Stuns Keith Thurman

July 23, 2019 Jimmy Tobin

They always have one great performance left in them. Follow boxing long enough, and you’ll hear how some great fighter or another at his career’s end conjured enough of his exhausted excellence to snatch one […]

Fight Previews

Blood and Pain: Dillian Whyte Ready for Oscar Rivas, the World

July 19, 2019 Andrew Harrison

Dillian Whyte is ready to explode. At the far end of a sprint tunnel, within Loughborough University’s Powerbase Gym—a palatial strength-and-conditioning facility in England’s verdant heartlands—Brixton’s world heavyweight contender is grinding through plyometric drills. Midway […]

Boxing History

Pernell Whitaker, his Magnificent Obsession

July 18, 2019 Staff

“It doesn’t matter who I fight,” he announced in 1994, with an imperial air, “You could have a 900 number and take a poll. Let the people decide.” *** NEWSLETTER EXCLUSIVE! Our July issue of […]

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 21: (L-R) Manny Pacquiao and Keith Thurman pose for the media during a press conference at Gotham Hall in preparation for their upcoming fight on May 21, 2019 in New York City. Pacquiao and Thurman will meet for the world welterweight championship title on July 20, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by J. Yim/Getty Images)
Technical Analysis

Pacquiao vs. Thurman: Who Will Roll as the Alpha Dog?

July 18, 2019 Frank Lotierzo

The upcoming WBA welterweight title bout between belt holder Keith Thurman, 29-0 (22), and former multiple-division champion Manny Pacquiao, 61-7-2 (39), is a difficult fight to preview for many reasons. Especially when you look at […]

Boxing promoter Frank Warren talks to James Degale's trainer Jim McDonnell afterJames DeGale loses on points at the O2, London. (Photo by Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty Images)
Boxing Profiles

Jim McDonnell, The Man Who Retired McGuigan

July 16, 2019 Chris Walker

The final chapters of a boxer’s career are seldom autobiographical. From Trevor Berbick to Kevin McBride, boxing has long been littered with unwelcome ghostwriters, authors of woe, intent on adding a miserable conclusion to an […]

Gerry Cooney meets with Dillian Whyte at Whyte’s training camp at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK. (Image Credit, Instagram, @gerryacooney)
Boxing Analysis

Back for the First Time in a Long Time: Gerry Cooney on the Heavyweight Scene

July 11, 2019 James Lupton

During a recent UK tour to promote his new memoir, “Gentleman” Gerry Cooney, a former two-time world-title challenger, spoke to Hannibal Boxing about the current heavyweight division, which has not been this exciting or stacked […]

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