There comes a time in every fighter’s career when he looks up and sees boots, tastes copper. The only ones to avoid this ignominy are the...
Back when Roman Gonzalez was a twenty-two year old minimumweight with a slate of 25-0 rather than a twenty-eight year old flyweight with a slate of...
These are deep waters. In the fathoms below lie sunken warriors, extraordinary boxers that I was sad, angry even, at not being able to include here....
Oleksander Uysk rose to 8-0 Saturday in Kiev, Ukraine at the expense of the decent but unspectacular Johnny Muller, who has dropped to 19-5-2 and returns...
Writing about the emerging news that Andre Berto had been selected as Floyd Mayweather’s September twelfth opponent, the Sweet Science’s own Frank Lotierzo deemed anyone who...
It was hardly anything other than a disappointment that having failed in the simple matter of making terms for the most natural fight in British boxing,...
Welcome back, Ruslan. Chagaev, for me, is the number three heavy of the Klitschko era. At his best he was mobile, two- handed as a boxer,...
Donnie “Snake” Nietes (out of Philippines, now 36-1-4) asserted his dominance as the world’s #1 108lb fighter today with a tactically brilliant if narrow defeat of...
It is possible that the deathly quiet surrounding this weekend’s showdown between the world’s number one light-flyweight and the former world’s #1 minimumweight in Cebu, The...
Once a year, I let tennis into my life. I’m reluctant to do so. Wimbledon catches my attention for its entire duration but I don’t like...