Lethal power-puncher Gennady Golovkin, the world’s best middleweight, 33-0 and thirty-three years of age out of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, meets Canadian David Lemieux, 26 years old and...
Great middleweights outrank great fighters on this list. That’s why the likes of Roy Jones and Billy Conn languish behind Gene Fullmer and Nino Benvenuti. A...
Ramil Gadzhiev, out of the deeply troubled port city of Odessa, Ukraine, is just seventeen years old but his amateur pedigree is astounding: he was bestowed...
In the introduction to Part One I alluded to the astonishing depth of the middleweight division; that depth is illustrated by the array of talent in...
My pre-fight prediction that Saturday’s meeting between pound-for-pounder Juan Francisco Estrada and former beast Hernan “Tyson” Marquez from the Centro Convenciones, Puerto Penasco might be painfully...
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...