Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Terence Crawford fights for a title vouchsafed for him by Top Rank ever since “Bud” made clear his intent to invade the welterweight division. […]
After two and half years in exile, Tyson Fury returns to the ring on Saturday night in an expected mismatch against Macedonian cruiserweight Sefer Seferi in Manchester, England. In his last fight in November 2015, […]
He was one of the earliest Sugar Ray knockoffs, but unlike other first-wave Robinson devotees—Johnny Saxton, Freddie Dawson, and Johnny Bratton, for example—George Costner actually had the audacity to dub himself “Sugar.” Costner, a welterweight […]
Ever since Brooklyn button man Bugsy Siegel opened the Flamingo Hotel in 1946, Las Vegas has been the pit stop for casual, catchall amorality in the United States. But not even Sin City seems willing […]
Putting music to boxing is nothing new. A good example I came across recently was Steve Coleman, a respected jazz saxophonist who did a record in part by watching fights on mute, mapping fighters’ movements […]
My Wall Street friend and I drove up to Hartford from Westport in my green Town Car with the white landau roof. My neighbor called it a pimpmobile. A couple of hours later, we’d see […]
Ron Lyle’s biography, Off The Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story, is now available from Hamilcar Publications. This book is a revised edition, with a new foreword by Showtime boxing analyst and International Boxing Hall of Fame […]
Like jazz and hip-hop, boxing is an improvisational art form. Created on the spot and never reproduced in precisely the same way. It’s also urban. From the streets. So throw in a little soul. With […]
Update: Since this piece was written, I approached Carlos to contribute to this site and he now serves as its editor as well. We believe he’s one of the best boxing writers in the […]
My date said she could see Danny “Bhoy” O’Connor’s eyes roll back into his head when Gabriel Bracero knocked him cold forty-four seconds into round one. I was in the beer line inside the Lowell […]
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