For better or worse, Floyd Mayweather versus Conor McGregor is official for August 26 in Vegas. The strange pairing, a comebacking Mayweather against reigning UFC lightweight...
This completes the participative trilogy involving a favorite boxer, a favorite boxing book, and now a favorite fight (though a favorite round still looms as a...
It’s been 14 years since we’ve seen an undisputed unified champion atop the junior welterweight division. The last time the unified champ defended all the titles...
THREE PUNCH COMBO — This week, the pay-per-view undercard for Mayweather-McGregor was formally announced. As much as I hate the main event, I must applaud the...
The late Stanley Weston, who had a long association with The Ring magazine, rising from copy boy to publisher, once said that he really didn’t like...
Some say the hardest thing in sports is to hit a major league slider. And maybe that is so, if the slider was thrown by Hall...
I’ve never been much of a pound-for-pound list guy. Until recently I never placed any stock in those lists because they serve no real purpose. Everyone...
The boxers going through their exertions weren’t the only ones working up a sweat at the Mayweather Boxing Club gym in Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon,...
Lots of athletes have nicknames. Some are carryovers from childhood, some are self-invented, still others are the products of imaginative publicists or promoters seeking to coin...
Corona is a small town that once was home to one of the greatest bantamweights who ever lived back in the 1940s. But one sweltering hot...