Articles by 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 […]

The lightweight division has nothing left for Raymundo Beltran. Did the thirty-eight-year-old realize as much on Thursday, in the grueling hours before the scale’s cold verdict? Or was it earlier? When he felt the impossibility […]

Finally, you got your answer. If you were unable to sleep, unable to eat, unable to function in your day-to-day life because of an all-consuming need to know what spectacle might transpire when Tyson Fury […]

The idea that former middleweight kingpin, Gennadiy Golovkin needed a comeback fight is absurd. Golovkin may have just completed the toughest stretch of his professional career, suffering his first draw and loss in the process, […]

The heavyweight division got what it needed on Saturday night. Not an undisputed champion, that supposed guarantor of clarity and cultural relevance for a fractured, niche sport. And not a new champion either, though we […]

Order was restored two minutes into the first round; a vehicle of chaos was responsible. There isn’t a fighter alive who can take Deontay Wilder’s Sunday punch, and his Saturday evening shot is hardly less […]

In boxing, not all wins and losses are equal. Julian “J-Rock” Williams knows this. That losses vary—in bitterness, in consequence, and duration—was something Williams learned on December 10, 2016. He got his long-coveted crack at […]

When it was over, he called it a “contest.” Danny Jacobs lost a unanimous decision to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night, lost his middleweight title, lost his […]

He was right to feel confident at the final bell last year; and if a little relief crept in, well, that was okay too. Super-flyweight Juan Francisco Estrada had just gone twelve rounds with Srisaket […]