Timing can be everything, even when considering boxing’s best pound for pound fighter. It’s been quite awhile that anyone below featherweight was considered as the top...
Current WBA World Super Bantamweight Champion Scott Quigg is 27 years old today, having been born on October 9th, 1988. Quigg is undefeated at 31-0-2, and...
After Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier squared off in their classic rubber match, the “Thrilla in Manila,” Ali biographer Thomas Hauser framed the importance of the...
Last weekend he looked terrific. The speed was apparent, the flash and the pot-shot punching was there too. He picked his spots and fought as the...
Former Light Heavyweight World Champion Billy Conn was born on October 8th, 1917 in East Liberty, Pennsylvania. In his youth, Billy Conn met a Pittsburgh boxer...
A kind of giddiness surfaces from even the most stoic people when you mention the sudden rise of Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, the WBA and IBO middleweight...
A side versus A side, that’s what we fight fans want. No rocket science to it…bells, whistles, great, whatev…But we don’t deserve gussied up pigs with...
The sanctioning bodies get flak galore for sometimes being fast and loose with their regulations. But, looking on the bright side, at least they HAVE rules...
Compassion? Oh, sure, there is lots of it in boxing, if you know where to look. There is the memory of a concerned Floyd Patterson kneeling...
Boxers, the best of them, aren’t like you and me. In situations where you or I would cave in, capitulate, they soldier on. So when a...