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 […]
No one believed him; and in the end, he didn’t believe himself either. Amir Khan swore he would produce the first blemish on Terence Crawford’s career when the two met at Madison Square Garden. Fighters […]
Unified lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko mesmerized Anthony “Million Dolla” Crolla over twelve one-sided rounds at Staples Center in Los Angeles, Friday night, proving again that the two-time Olympic gold medalist who in only fourteen fights […]
Errol Spence bounced into the ring in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, to headline his first pay-per-view. He did so before a crowd of over 47,000, accompanied by a rapper (a nod to his community), […]
We ask much of our best fighters, despite being conditioned to having our requests ignored. Yet when those requests are answered—which is more frequently than the hardest cynics among us care to note—we walk back […]
Trussed in talk of Olympic pedigree, of retirement and new beginnings, James DeGale–Chris Eubank Jr. was imbued with the type of gravity American commentators are encouraged to and typically fail to conjure. And yet, with […]
If you thought Sergey Kovalev was finished as an elite fighter, you weren’t alone. And if you thought Kovalev harbored similar thoughts, that he too questioned his place in the sport, his desire to regain […]
Perhaps it was the aura of his opponent, a fighter with a preternatural—grotesque even—capacity for violence. Or maybe it was the troubles both professional and personal dogging him. He was the opponent that night, too; […]
By any criteria you choose, Manny Pacquiao is a great fighter. We may differ on when we think he achieved that distinction, but no one doubts he’s earned it. He will remain a great fighter […]
This is the tenth, and final, piece in a ten-part series looking at the fighters whose stories make Donald McRae’s Dark Trade the enduring classic that it is. Learn more about the 1st U.S. edition […]
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