WORCESTER — When boxing last laid eyes on Matt Remillard in a professional prize ring, the year was 2011. The then undefeated Connecticut featherweight prospect was on HBO...
Most boxing fans remember the late Zachariah “Zack” Clayton as the third man in the ring for Muhammad Ali’s stunning eighth-round knockout of George Foreman on...
THE THINNING POOL OF BRAWLERS — “This guy was a real slugger.” With those words, I was introduced to Bennie Briscoe. Before I could say “I...
PHILADELPHIA — It would have been a great story, if not a unique one. A boxing-obsessed father, maybe even a former fighter himself, names his son...
A NIGHT OF UNBRIDLED VIOLENCE — Sometimes—not very often—but sometimes the intensity, ferocity and even cruelty that fighters like Mike Tyson, Nigel Benn, Tony Ayala Jr.,...
GOLOVKIN-JACOBS — On March 18, Gennady Golovkin and Danny Jacobs met in the ring at Madison Square Garden in a middleweight title-unification bout. It was supposed...
A FORMULA FOR QUELLING CONTROVERSIAL DECISIONS — During this month of March we’ve seen two high profile title bouts in New York City in boxing’s two...
When a world champion fighter is young, talented and at the top of his form, he can be excused for daring to believe the good times...
MONTEBELLO, Ca.-It’s a golf course by day and a banquet hall and meeting place by night. On some occasions, like last night, it’s a boxing venue...
BERNARD FERNANDEZ REMEMBERS LOU DUVA —120 He was short. He was rotund. He was irascible. It would be easy to say that Lou Duva, who died...