If there is no such thing as a second act in boxing, to paraphrase a line from F. Scott Fitzgerald, there have at least been plenty of attempts to fashion one. But sometimes—just sometimes—the attempts […]
What Deontay Wilder is feeling these days may not count as schadenfreude, but it is awfully close. All summer, like a desperate lover, he courted British superstar Anthony Joshua for a heavyweight unification fight, only […]
One notion that Sergiy Derevyanchenko would like to debunk is that he is somehow friends with fellow middleweight contender Daniel Jacobs. They do not meet up regularly for brunch on Saturdays in Williamsburg or play […]
Shawn Porter’s lifelong zeal for watching professional football hardly distinguishes him from the millions of other pigskin-adoring Americans, but as someone who trades in the haphazard sport of boxing, he is in some sense better […]
Long before op-ed columnists decided that precarity was the exclusive condition of Uber drivers, Air B&B hosts, and other foot soldiers of the so-called “gig economy,” professional fighters were already toiling under a cloud of […]
Though WBA light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol credits a childhood under the spell of Jackie Chan films with guiding him toward a career in prizefighting, it is Sugar Ray Leonard whom the Kyrgyzstan-born boxer cites as […]
Back in May, mere moments after Vasyl Lomachenko delivered the knockout blow to Jorge Linares in the tenth round of their lightweight unification bout at Madison Square Garden, an elated Bob Arum was rhapsodizing about […]
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