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...
BOXING AT FANTASY SPRINGS — An extremely strong fight card led by Ireland’s Jason “El Animal” Quigley opens a partnership between Golden Boy Promotions and ESPN...
GREATEST FEATHERWEIGHTS, PART IV — Monsters abound in this, the penultimate installment of The Fifty Greatest Featherweights of all time. That said, the demarcation line between...
THREE PUNCH COMBO: Boxing can be a funny sport. Often it is not if a fighter wins but how he looks in winning that determines his...
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...
THE HAUSER REPORT: We live in an age when spectacle is often valued more highly than substance. Thus, it’s not surprising that boxing is careening toward...
The foremost attraction on the third weekend of March was housed at New York’s fabled Madison Square Garden where 19,939 turned out for a 7-bout card...
A BIG NIGHT OF BOXING AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN — Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Daniel Jacobs entered the ring at Madison Square Garden with a combined...
In the middle of a Los Angeles area arena parking lot Gennady “GGG” Golovkin stood flanked by dozens of fans signing autographs and posing for photos...
ROMAN GONZALEZ APPROACHES AN ICONIC MILESTONE — Many forget but there was a time when the great Julio Cesar Chavez fought on Mike Tyson undercards to...
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...
SANTA MONICA, Ca.-With one week before entering the boxing ring Ireland’s Jason Quigley met with the media in a basement boxing gym on Wednesday. His stablemate...
RODRIGO VALDEZ DEAD AT AGE 70 — Former world middleweight champion Rodrigo “Rocky” Valdez died today (March 15) at his home in Cartagena, Columbia. His death...
TOP RANK AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN — On Friday, St. Patrick’s Day, Bob Arum’s Top Rank organization showcases two-time Olympian Michael Conlan in the Theater at...
DANNY JACOBS INSPIRED BY ALGIERI — If your name is “Miracle Man” Danny Jacobs and you’re fighting undefeated middleweight champ Gennady Golovkin at Madison Square Garden...
From the sublime to the obscure, Part 3 of my rundown of the Fifty Greatest Featherweights of all time has as wide a variety of pugilists...
Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez marched through three weight divisions like Napoleon’s army with slight potholes here and there but no Waterloos, until encountering the super flyweights. Now...
Bernard Hopkins has never been a shrinking violet when it comes to offering strong opinions, on anything, so perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that...
FISTIC NOTES AND NUGGETS — Nine years ago, I wrote an article entitled “BoxRec.com: Boxing’s Indispensable Website.” I praised John Sheppard, the indefatigable Brit who has...
The second weekend of March was chock full of good boxing matches. As usual, Mexicans were well represented among the winners and losers. On Friday, big...
