No phrase is more pertinent to the life and career of Jamel Herring than semper fidelis, Latin for “always loyal,” and the moral code that the US Marine Corps—the organization in which Herring grew up—adheres […]
It wasn’t very good, and it wasn’t a fix, either. It may have seemed like one for ten rounds, but how then to explain the eleventh? That sudden razing that nearly justified giving a Saturday […]
When the Southern District Court of New York dealt a ten-year prison sentence to former middleweight contender Avtandil Khurtsidze on charges of racketeering and conspiracy last September, it was literally a case of adding insult […]
When the light-heavyweight title fight between WBO champion Sergey Kovalev 34-3-1 (29) and unified middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez 51-1-2 (34) was announced, two thoughts immediately stood out. The first is that this won’t be […]
Wayne Crolla was an OK fighter. A staple of North England fight nights during Britain’s turbulent early 1980s, Crolla satisfied his region’s fans for a night or two before retiring in 1986 with a 16-12 […]
Josh Taylor will be on his phone a lot in the coming days, but he won’t use facial-recognition technology to unlock it. Regis Prograis will draw double-takes from strangers for a while, though if you […]
When Josh Taylor and Regis “Rougarou” Prograis signed contracts in 2018 binding them to the World Boxing Super Series, they assured themselves of one thing: danger. The wallflowers, morning glories, and small dreamers of contemporary […]
“Yeah, one more, one more,” Regis Prograis says urgently as his gray T-shirt darkens with the sweat that pours down his face and body in the corner of a blue ring. We’re tucked away in […]
This piece by Carlos Acevedo, author of Sporting Blood, is a companion to Berserk: The Shocking Life and Death of Edwin Valero, written by Don Stradley (Hamilcar Publications, November 2019). *** 1. “Beneath it all, desire […]
Artur Beterbiev’s journey to light-heavyweight domination seemed to take forever. Beterbiev entered the paid ranks in 2013 atop this decade’s wave of enthusiasm for Eastern European fighters and immediately looked the part. In his sixth […]
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