On May 3rd, welterweight Floyd Mayweather, boxing's best pound for pound fighter, will fight Marcos Maidana 35-3 (32). Maidana is coming off the biggest win of...
SAN DIEGO-A good thing Saul “Canelo” Alvarez takes everything seriously, including media days. The boss showed up much to the surprise of almost everyone on Tuesday....
Last time, things didn't go the way he expected. Sure, in the back of his mind, Canelo Alvarez had to know that Floyd Mayweather was two...
On February 25th 1964, undisputed heavyweight champion Charles “Sonny” Liston boasted a 35-1 (28) record. Liston was 218 pounds of tempered steel packaged into a large...
Boxing nation, the wait is over. You can finally breathe, secure in the knowledge that Floyd Mayweather, after months of dithering, has chosen his next victim,...
Hey fight fan. Yeah, you. Think you know what happened in that ring in Zaire on Oct. 30, 1974 when Muhammad Ali again confounded the world,...
The Feb. 17 issue of ESPN The Magazine, like so many that preceded it, was largely devoted to a particular theme. In this instance, the cover...
Subtle lines of anguish form surround the face of Vasyl Lomachenko when the topic of the Ukraine surfaces. While hundreds of people have died on both...
Part One of this article explored a “fantasy” tournament contested among eight great lightweights of the past sixty years. Twenty-six experts predicted the outcome of fights...
There are no second acts in American lives. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of “The Last Tycoon” Fitzgerald, just 44 when he died of a heart attack...