As Canelo Alvarez eyed Auston Trout like a crocodile ready to launch at a hapless wildebeest, he must’ve hummed the Mariachi version of, “It’s just...
The heart of the sport can be seen, immense and healthy, at shows like the one Joe Rein reported on back in 2003. “Reports of my...
July 16, 2005…going in to this fight, we talked about Bernard Hopkins being “old.” (Hogan) Fights aren’t settled in the gutter when you’re the center of...
Letter to the Smithsonian Institute: find an old boxing gym being shuttered and put it in the museum. No more genuine slice of Americana, or more...
Bogart will always have Paris, ‘n Irish Micky Ward will ALWAYS have London, November 3, 2000, when the Lowell, Mass. journeyman/road-paver wrecked home-town favorite Shea Neary,...
You see champions on pay-per-view; they’re larger-than-life, mythic figures –- rock stars — towering over the Vegas Strip on plasma screens. A stage so exalted, it’s...
Boxing’s unlikely to ever be what it was in its heyday – too much extreme-sport competition. Dave Mirra’s this era’s Ray Robinson. Nothing’s forever: the dinosaurs...
In the late ‘60s, I went to the old Madison Square Garden to see a main-go between two Latin fighters, one Cuban, the other, Puerto Rican....
Nostradamus would have a gimme with James Toney. It’s a medical problem: Knee-Jerk Zidane (a less pernicious strain of Duran-Tourette…sadly, incurable). But unlike ZZ, James only...
We boxing fans despair: What's to become of boxing? It has no future in a world of extreme sports. If the looks on the faces of...