Boxing Profiles

“Me and my brother Dudley left home when I was fifteen. We had quite an abusive, vicious father, and we had to get away. Our dad was a West Indian guy, and it was his […]

Broken glass litters the street corner, along with empty cans of lager and small stones. Swanston Street is an area frequented only by factory workers or aspiring fighters. The cursing heard from the burger van […]

“That moment they announced I was world champion—that was unbelievable. That was my childhood ambition achieved. That was my journey complete and something nobody could ever take away from me. I was down in the […]

“I wanted a nickname, but I didn’t want to choose it myself. It was Barry McGuigan, after one of my fights, who said, ‘Crawford’s got chilling power.’ I thought, ‘Hold on a minute. Chilling. That […]

“[In] 1996, I was WBC [bantamweight] champ of the world . . . people think because you’re sitting on the top of the world, you’re happy as can be, and they think, why would you […]

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 […]

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 […]