Prizefighting actually dipped underground for the past nine months with professional boxers training illegally in darkened gyms behind shuttered windows and locked doors. It still remains...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 120: Boxing’s Best Pound for Pound When Saul “Canelo” Alvarez first stepped into a prize ring in the USA in 2008 it never...
It was the last big-fight weekend in the United States, so there were plenty of HITS and MISSES to consider this time around. The boxing world...
HITS and MISSES: AJ’s Mandatory Destruction of Kubrat Pulev and More It was another big weekend in boxing. While most of the world was glued to...
In front of actual fans the real Anthony Joshua showed up and uppercut his way to victory by knockout over Bulgaria’s Kubrat Kulev on Saturday. “I...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 117: Anthony Joshua, Shakur and More Here’s the tall and the short of it. A large bloke with numerous heavyweight title belts fights...
In a fight that was a lot closer than most folks expected, Oleksandr Usyk overcame Dereck Chisora, winning a unanimous decision on scores of 117-111, 115-113,...
Boxing Odds and Ends: Fury’s Next Opponent, Lomachenko Redux and More It wasn’t long ago that Bob Arum was talking about potting Fury-Wilder III at Las...
Sept. 6 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of former heavyweight contender Buster Mathis, who was 51 when he took his earthly 10-count in 1995....
Russia’s Alexander Povetkin survived two knockdowns and then knocked out favored British heavyweight Dillian Whyte with a single blow on Saturday in a heavyweight elimination bout....