Boxing Analysis

The dynamics of this weekend’s heavyweight title bout between WBA-IBF-WBO world champion Andy Ruiz, 33-1 (22), and the man he won the titles from via seventh-round TKO, Anthony Joshua, 22-1 (21), make it one of […]

When was it supposed to happen? The sixth round? The third? The first? And yet in the twelfth, he was still upright, still fighting for a victory that was never supposed to be his, a […]

It wasn’t very good, and it wasn’t a fix, either. It may have seemed like one for ten rounds, but how then to explain the eleventh? That sudden razing that nearly justified giving a Saturday […]

When the light-heavyweight title fight between WBO champion Sergey Kovalev 34-3-1 (29) and unified middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez 51-1-2 (34) was announced, two thoughts immediately stood out. The first is that this won’t be […]

Artur Beterbiev’s journey to light-heavyweight domination seemed to take forever. Beterbiev entered the paid ranks in 2013 atop this decade’s wave of enthusiasm for Eastern European fighters and immediately looked the part. In his sixth […]

“There’s a good jab; that’s what he’s known for.” During Saturday’s middleweight title fight between Gennadiy Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko a member of DAZN’s commentary team distinguished one of the most celebrated destroyers of recent […]

We are closer to the truth now, a sign that what transpired in the ring in Staples Center this past Saturday had purpose and consequence. An exciting fight, untainted by scandal yet close enough to […]

When Otto Wallin was born, in 1990, professional boxing was still outlawed in Sweden, a country that turned its back on blood sports barely a decade after producing a national hero in Ingemar Johansson. Wallin, […]

The version of Vasiliy Lomachenko that ethered Rocky Martinez was something. That uppercut-hook combination, a two-step destruction delivered with the smooth ferocity of a 110 mph serve, how could anyone who appreciates a blood sport […]