OK, so I was wrong. I have been wrong before. But on those occasions when I did offer a prediction that turned out to be incorrect,...

Handicapping the rematch in boxing should be easier than handicapping the first meeting between two elite championship caliber fighters. And in some ways it is and...

The 28th annual Hall of Fame Induction Weekend at the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, NY, wrapped up Sunday, June 11. I can’t say...

Featherweight contender Daniel Franco remains in an induced coma after suffering a subdural hematoma more commonly known as a “brain bleed” and later an epidural hematoma...

The 1980s passed into history, what, 27½ years ago? So much has changed in America and in the world since then. But maybe not as much...

It was the signature fight of his career. He fought an undefeated opponent in the opponent’s home country. In spite of being undefeated and two years...

THREE PUNCH COMBO — This was the fourth straight year my wife and I made the journey to Canastota, NY for Hall of Fame weekend. Each...

CANASTOTA, N.Y. – He might have mentioned deceased mentors George Benton, Lou Duva and Dan Duva, as well as a few others who to one degree...

WEEKEND BOXING RECAPS — Folks in Belfast went gaga over native son Carl Frampton who was 5-0 in world title fights before getting nudged off his...

WORCESTER, MA. — Promoter Jose Antonio Rivera has had himself a very busy rookie year in 2017. Last January, the former WBA welterweight champion put on...

CANASTOTA, N.Y. – Boxers, and their individual life stories, are often as unique as fingerprints. If that wasn’t already obvious, the paths taken by Marco Antonio...

TWIN RIVER CASINO, LINCOLN, R.I. ― Boxing fans are well accustomed to the dynamic of promotional paralysis. In simple terms it’s when rival promoters won’t work...

VERONA, N.Y. – When Regis Prograis was 16 years old, he and his family fled New Orleans the day before Hurricane Katrina. The greatest natural disaster...

Born in Kharkov, Ukraine but now living in Oxnard, California (where he is guided by Robert Garcia), Oleksandr “The Nail” Gvozdyk is not your normal Ukrainian...

CANASTOTA, N.Y. – The recent deaths of Eddie Samuels and Matthew Peltz, still in their 30s and the respective sons of longtime Top Rank publicist Lee...

Boxing in the year 2017, so far, has been experiencing an upswing with a slew of fights in which it was pretty hard to decipher the...

Avtandil Khurtsidze was arrested yesterday (June 7) in New York on charges of violating the federal RICO Act. Passed by Congress in 1970 as a tool...

CANASTOTA, N.Y. – The working relationship between a boxing blow-by-blow announcer and an analyst is not unlike that of say, a premier quarterback and his go-to...

Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev is like the young kid who saves his allowance all year to go to the state fair only to get his pocket picked...