On the last day of last year, super-flyweight Kazuto Ioka delivered a near-perfect defense of his title, dismantling Kosei Tanaka over eight excellent rounds at the Ota-City General Gymnasium in Japan. That seems an apposite […]
Finally, after all the hard years toiling in hothouse gyms and all the years crisscrossing the country as an itinerant journeyman—smoke-filled halls, catcalls and hisses when facing the local hero, narrow losses tallied on doubtful […]
“You have to be cruel to be kind.”—Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow The celebration tempered once Saul “Canelo” Alvarez was announced the winner. As the ring cleared Alvarez removed his red and white hat, returned […]
XXV They left the arena in silence, weaving determinedly through the shifting obstructions. They have their rhythms, conversations, that contrapuntalism has its tides. Their tide had gone out, leaving exposed in each man’s mind […]
In boxing, change is precipitated by problems. A comebacking fighter changes trainers because a man who normalizes deadly risks cannot permit self-doubt. This new trainer promises to add a wrinkle or two, and so a […]
He did not have to do this. In his first fight in over a year, first fight since being hurled from his speeding Ferrari, first fight in a pandemic year, Errol Spence did not have […]
“El Cubano Mexicano.” It took a few years, but that’s what Mexican press came to call him. Before that, he was simply, “El Cubano.” José Nápoles, the celebrated former welterweight champion, died last year […]
SHEFFIELD, England—Unified junior welterweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford returned to the UK Saturday night and once again left with a title. His victim, IBF welterweight champion, Kell “Special K” Brook, now understands what most everyone […]
There were two explosions when Gervonta “Tank” Davis mollywhopped Leo Santa Cruz on Halloween night at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. First, there was the booming sound of a supersonic left uppercut connecting—on target—against […]
“It’s a lot to deal with.” Much praise was heaped on unified bantamweight champion, Naoya Inoue, during his seven-round razing of challenger, Jason Moloney, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday […]
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