Now that Joe Mesi has scored an impressive knockout in his HBO debut, look out! The HBO-Mesi relationship is about to begin. Muhammad Ali had a...
The 98th Round Back on May 10, 2002, junior middleweight contender Kassim Ouma stepped into a ring at Delaware's Dover Downs for his fight with Jason...
The most recent HBO promotion run on their network has both Vitaly Klitschko and his brother Wladimir, on a secluded island, plotting world domination of the...
The phrase “What if” probably applies to the late Salvador Sanchez more than any other fighter in boxing history. Forget, “What if he fought Alexis Arguello?”...
Well, the holiday season is now upon us with Thanksgiving just a few days away. A time to count our blessings and realize that we all...
This isn't the kind of left hook used to hug grandma, quiet the dog or rake in poker chips. Instead, like a surly cop busting up...
O-pin-ion: 1.unproven belief or assessment. 2.view held as probable. 3.what one thinks about something. 4a. professional advice b. Law formal statement of reasons for a judgement...
Listen carefully and you can hear a certain rhythm in the way Bernard Hopkins speaks. He doesn't talk in rhyme or in fragmented sentences and he...
It's a Keystone Kops lineup of heavyweight hopefuls looking to pick up a fast buck on what would otherwise be a slow Saturday night. Cedric Kushner's...
All the precincts have reported, the the ballots have been counted and it's a landslide: Freddie Roach is the runaway choice for trainer of the year....
Do most hard-core boxing fans miss the 15 round championship bouts, or is it just me? Most of the modern day boxing history was made during...
After watching the Roy Jones-Antonio Tarver fight a second time, it reconfirms what I thought after watching it live. Jones won. Although Tarver put up a...
This Saturday Marco Antonio Barrera takes another step through the ropes wearing the uncrowned title of “The People's Champion” at 126 pounds when he faces off...
His head was in an amusement park outside Orlando. That's the unofficial excuse, though you wonder why his head wasn't sitting squarely on his shoulders in...
The accolades were over-flowing when Roy Jones downed John Ruiz this past March for the WBA heavyweight crown. Jones became the first middleweight champion to capture...
Now that Roy Jones has regained his light heavyweight title belts, where does he go? In defeating Antonio Tarver, he beat the top light heavyweight in...
What is it about boxing that we love reading about it and talking about it so much? When reading and talking about boxing, the choice of...
It didn’t come as a surprise that hardly anyone called. After all, the snubbing of Winky Wright has become legendary in the fight game. He’s about...
This past Saturday night, I watched the Floyd Mayweather-Phillip N'dou lightweight title fight on HBO. After watching the Juan Manuel Marquez-Derrick Gainer fight, all Mayweather and...
One of the biggest misconceptions in boxing, is the strength versus punching power correlation. Throughout the history of prize fighting, we've seen many examples of it...
