Adonis Stevenson waged a war on two fronts in 2018. Age, dogged in its assault, hounded the forty-one-year-old fighter in both his fights and his preparation; while youth, aspiring and robust, assailed him between the […]
For months, lightweight titlist Mikey Garcia responded the same way to questions of his future, and for months aficionados met his response with crinkled brows, upturned noses, rolling eyes. Was Garcia’s absurd answer tactical? A […]
You remember the December night in 2016 when Jermall Charlo stepped into the ring at the USC Galen Center in Los Angeles for what was expected to be the sternest challenge of his career. You […]
…“Focus on your fight.” That was Terence Crawford’s advice to Jose Benavidez Jr. when the two crossed paths in the Bank of America Center in Corpus Christi last February. According to Crawford, Benavidez confronted him […]
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 […]
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 […]
Boxing returned to Atlantic City this past Saturday with a doubleheader from the Hard Rock Resort and Hotel intended to bring us closer to establishing an HBO light heavyweight champion. And while we may indeed […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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