This coming Sunday, Jan. 17, marks the 100th anniversary of the pro debut of one of boxing’s most interesting characters. On this date in 1921, Young...
Word arrived yesterday, Jan. 12, that boxing promoter Mike Acri died this past Sunday at age 63. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. Acri was...
The Oct. 3 bout at the MGM Grand “Bubble” between Jose Zepeda and Ivan Baranchyk was a rip-snorter, a runaway choice for the 2020 Fight of...
Goodbye To All Of That: A Review of Mike Silver’s ‘The Night the Referee Hit Back’ Mike Silver has been writing about boxing since the 1970s,...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 120: Boxing’s Best Pound for Pound When Saul “Canelo” Alvarez first stepped into a prize ring in the USA in 2008 it never...
The decade of the 1950s has held a particular fascination for boxing historians. This was the decade in which the sport’s dominant player was the International...
HITS and MISSES: Ryan Garcia, Kazuto Ioka and More Boxing shut down for the Christmas holidays, but the sweet science got back to business as usual...
Not everything in 2020 revolved around Teofimo Lopez’s surprise win over Vasyl Lomachenko or Tyson Fury’s destruction of Deontay Wilder. And yes, fighting in a Bubble...
When Canelo Alvarez flew the coop, Ryan Garcia became the most valuable property in the Golden Boy Promotions stable. This afternoon in Dallas, Golden Boy sent...
Can Luke Campbell Dim Ryan Garcia’s Bright Star? Texas hasn’t been a very hospitable place to boxers from across the pond. Liverpool’s Callum Smith didn’t fare...
In 2010, I wanted to get back into boxing. After enjoying the unforgettable 80’s and 90’s, my rooting interest in the cruelest sport waned in the...
In what proved to be a very happy new year for fight fans, Kazuto Ioka scored a sensational eighth round knockout of wonderkid Kosei Tanaka in...
The terrible pandemic that swept the globe in 2020 did not spare the boxing community. Looking over our list of boxing notables that left us this...
The Grim Reaper appeared on the boxing scene on the very first day of what would be a grim year, taking the life of former long-reigning...
If it is really true that turnabout is fair play, then whoever the winner is of the Heisman Trophy as college football’s most outstanding player of...
Once again Mexico’s Eddy Reynoso is the Trainer of the Year. Though his main star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez only fought once in this pandemic year, once...
Winning the TSS 2020 Prospect of the Year award is only the beginning for middleweight prospect Austin “Ammo” Williams. The 24-year-old is unlike any other fighter...
Fast Results from LA: Morrell TKOs Gavronski; Montiel Bombs Out Kirkland The final PBC boxing event of 2020 was staged at an iconic LA entertainment venue,...
“Jose Zepeda KO’s Ivan Baranchyk in potential fight of the year,” read the headline above Steve Kim’s post-fight story for ESPN. The headline-maker obviously didn’t take...
British boxing was as brutally handled as any other footfall industry in the UK in 2020 and remains a disaster for small-halls and amateur clubs. Disgracefully,...
