During the late 80s and early 90s whenever the name Buddy McGirt was mentioned it conjured up images of East Coast boxing. “I’m all East Coast...
Overheard at the Mayweather Gym: “I like Andy Ruiz’s chances. I like them a lot. I’ve got two dimes (that’s $2000) riding on over six-and-a-half rounds.”...
Between super featherweights and super lightweights those three seemingly inter-changeable divisions are rife with talent. Devin Haney seems to be smack in the middle of the...
The date was Dec. 8, 2007, and WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., who had just doused the hopes, if not the enthusiasm, of thousands of...
Wanheng Menayothin, born Chayaphon Moonsri, makes the 11th defense of his WBC minimumweight title on Friday against Japan’s Tatsuya Fukuhara in Chachoengsau, Thailand, a small city...
THREE PUNCH COMBO — We have another very busy fight week ahead of us that is headlined by the big heavyweight title fight between Anthony Joshua...
Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing series for DAZN landed in the D.C. area tonight with a 7-bout card at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland....
On June 22, Paulie Malignaggi and Artem Lobov will meet in a ring at the Florida State Fairgrounds Entertainment Hall in Tampa in what is being...
American boxing fans east of the Rockies get their first glimpse at Devin “the Dream” Haney this weekend. The 20-year-old with the fast hands and smooth...
Most professional boxers, for whatever reason, have nicknames. With as unadorned a given name as Mike Lee, you might think that the guy who on July...
BEVERLY HILLS-Rain and grey skies filled the Southern California landscape on Wednesday as Manny Pacquiao and fellow warriors met the media. Now 40 years old, Pacquiao...
Lou Savarese could hardly contain himself. There he was, just four years after his last professional boxing match, a Bronx-born, boxing behemoth bursting into the room...
Showtime’s widely-connected Jim Gray is the ultimate networker, insider, and friend to the stars (from Jack Nicholson to Kobe Bryant to LeBron James to Tom Brady...
The heavyweights are out there bucking for position as the weight class has more possibilities than we have seen in years. Three heavyweight fights have gotten...
This past Saturday night saw Deontay Wilder’s WBC world heavyweight title defense against Dominic Breazeale go down on Showtime. The fight lasted just 137 seconds as...
THREE PUNCH COMBO — This past Saturday, Naoya Inoue (18-0, 16 KO’s) punched his ticket to the bantamweight final in the World Boxing Super Series when...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Super welterweight prospect Serhii Bohachuk got his first taste of upper tier boxing from Mexico’s Freddy Hernandez and gave him his best Sunday punch to...
It’s been said — and it applies to all sports, but especially boxing — that in order to be great, one has to face great competition....
How much improvement can a fighter, any fighter, demonstrate in only 137 seconds? How many sandpaper-rough stylistic edges can be smoothed in that comparatively brief snippet...
HAWAIIAN GARDENS, Calif.-Undefeated Jonathan Esquivel attracted a large and lively crowd and they weren’t disappointed in his knockout win over Tavoris Teague on Saturday. Esquivel (10-0,...
