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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,...
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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...