Mauricio “El Maestro” Herrera meets Hank Lundy in a junior welterweight showdown on Saturday night. In recent years, Herrera has leaped from relatively anonymous stature to...
You still see some elements of old-style NYC when you’re in the Village, as you walk the streets, as the summertime waft of settled garbage assaults...
Six years, Dan Birmingham has been with Keith Thurman. He took the reins soon after Thurman’s trainer/mentor Ben Getty died, and Dan’s bother MIke, their cutman,...
For the last three or four years Floyd Mayweather has controlled the debate in regards to the sport of professional boxing. Today, the banter over who...
The rumor mill is churning, and I’m hearing there is a distinct possibility that the next Floyd Mayweather fight, to take place Sept. 12, at the...
Twelve months after his most recent fight, Sergio Martinez announced his retirement last month to the surprise of exactly no one. The only surprise, if there...
He popped on my radar screen a few years ago, with me deciding that he has probably the best name in boxing. Tyson Fury. One part...
Once a year, I let tennis into my life. I’m reluctant to do so. Wimbledon catches my attention for its entire duration but I don’t like...
Taking nothing away from baseball, football, basketball, or hockey, it seems no sport lends itself to gifted wordsmiths like boxing does. The list of notable writers...
When is enough enough? Or rather, when it is too much? As a fan of boxing, we all love the wars. Gatti-Ward, Bowe-Holyfield, Corrales-Castillo, and so...