Interview with Dmitry Bivol, by Sean Nam. See more Hannibal Boxing interviews >> *** Though WBA light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol credits a childhood under the spell of Jackie Chan films with guiding him toward a […]
Photography implies that we know about the world if we accept it as the camera records it. But this is the opposite of understanding, which starts from not accepting the world as it looks. All […]
A comebacking Ingemar Johansson, who had just seen his reign as heavyweight champion halted by Floyd Patterson, hardly inspired his supporters when, in a huff, he ejected one of his livelier sparring partners from the […]
American welterweight Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. has all the right moves. Saturday night, at The Ford Center at The Star, in Frisco, Texas, Spence needed less than a round to sickle Carlos “Chema” Ocampo […]
Interview with Mikey Garcia, by Sean Nam. See more Hannibal Boxing interviews >> *** Back in May, mere moments after Vasyl Lomachenko delivered the knockout blow to Jorge Linares in the tenth round of their […]
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 […]