Just two and a half years ago, the PBC pettifogging machine announced a welterweight tournament, of sorts, that promised to bring some elusive clarity to one of the most talent-rich divisions in boxing. It never […]
This is the sixth installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** March 31, 1980 “Never being happy isn’t the same as being unhappy. Is it?”— Montgomery McNeil, Fame […]
When Otto Wallin was born, in 1990, professional boxing was still outlawed in Sweden, a country that turned its back on blood sports barely a decade after producing a national hero in Ingemar Johansson. Wallin, […]
“I wanted a nickname, but I didn’t want to choose it myself. It was Barry McGuigan, after one of my fights, who said, ‘Crawford’s got chilling power.’ I thought, ‘Hold on a minute. Chilling. That […]
After fighting to a disputed draw last December and promising to renew hostilities at the nearest possible opportunity, Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury then plotted themselves on as protracted and barren a course to that […]
“[In] 1996, I was WBC [bantamweight] champ of the world . . . people think because you’re sitting on the top of the world, you’re happy as can be, and they think, why would you […]
The version of Vasiliy Lomachenko that ethered Rocky Martinez was something. That uppercut-hook combination, a two-step destruction delivered with the smooth ferocity of a 110 mph serve, how could anyone who appreciates a blood sport […]
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