So boxing’s biggest fight of 2019 is heading to the morally corrupt desert that moonlights as paradise. No, not Nevada, but Saudi Arabia, the Middle Eastern kingdom with an appalling human rights record, will host […]
“My dad used to tell me, ‘Go and pick a belt for me to beat you with.’ “That was more psychological than anything. Like the fear and anxiety you get with boxing in the changing […]
“We didn’t have a gym. We had a room above a fruit shop, one punch bag, no toilet, no spit bucket, and I won the British, Commonwealth, and IBF world cruiserweight titles. The ‘Rocky’ story […]
The boxing public is about to learn what Shakur Stevenson has known since he was six years old. An enthusiastic and wayward youth, (characteristics that are still present in adulthood) Stevenson began his boxing ascent […]
Christy Renea Martin has often been referred to as the fighter who legitimized women’s boxing, but “The Coalminer’s Daughter” is not so quick to accept the praise. “I do believe that my work made it […]
While preparing for his May 2012 fight against Miguel Cotto, Floyd Mayweather Jr., then 42-0, was asked to name his toughest opponent. His answer was the same as it had always been: Emanuel Augustus. He […]
The sparring session transpired nearly ten years ago, behind closed doors, in a sun-kissed gym situated along a light-rail overpass outside of downtown Dallas. Arnie Verbeek remembers it like it was yesterday—as he should. He […]
Lennox Lewis, dressed head-to-toe in white, presses his back into his chair and wraps a giant fist around the end of each arm. “I feel like, right, now I’m in my throne, I’ve got the […]
The final chapters of a boxer’s career are seldom autobiographical. From Trevor Berbick to Kevin McBride, boxing has long been littered with unwelcome ghostwriters, authors of woe, intent on adding a miserable conclusion to an […]
“Poor Tommy Jackson, I wish there was some other way for him to make a living.” —Jimmy Cannon Only a cameo role in The Sweet Science, magnum opus of A.J. Liebling, now preserved in […]
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