Early last month, promoter Top Rank announced that Jose Ramirez will make the second defense of his WBC junior welterweight title on February 10, against Jose Zepeda, a fighter absent from the sanctioning body’s top-ten […]
In boxing, the least a farce can do is end quickly; the favorite going purposefully about his business, the underdog crumbling accordingly. Because there is little to learn from so frivolous a spectacle, and woe […]
The best fighter in the world. You or someone you know believes Vasiliy Lomachenko is just that. Is he? The answer isn’t particularly important, in part because it is difficult to prove anyone’s claim to […]
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 […]
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