Jimmy Tobin is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. His work has appeared in The Cruelest Sport, 15 Rounds, Undisputed Champion Network, Esquina Boxeo, El Malpensante, The Queensbury Rules, and The Fight Network. Jimmy is the author of Killed in Brazil? The Mysterious Death of Arturo “Thunder” Gatti, published by Hamilcar Publications. Connect with Jimmy on Twitter.
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 […]
After Saul “Canelo” Alvarez gutted Michael “Rocky” Fielding, lifting the middling super-middleweight’s title, promoter Oscar De La Hoya tweeted something to the effect of: “You’re going to be surprised by who we fight next.” Why […]
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; […]