No matter what happens Saturday night when Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez square off in Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, there will be comparisons drawn between a...
For years I’ve maintained fighters who are perceived as being a certified life-taker because of their overload of punching power, are often overrated. And they often...
Abel Sanchez was recalling his first fight as the new trainer of Gennady Golovkin, who had come to him at the relatively advanced age of 28...
If this was Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s final fight, and he said it was, then the five-time world champion exited the squared circle with a bang on Saturday before 14,623 fans...
It wasn’t a charade, nor was it exactly a good fight although it had drama. Boxing didn’t absorb a hit and it wasn’t a work! In...
I’ve never been much of a pound-for-pound list guy. Until recently I never placed any stock in those lists because they serve no real purpose. Everyone...
Lots of athletes have nicknames. Some are carryovers from childhood, some are self-invented, still others are the products of imaginative publicists or promoters seeking to coin...
It’s never a good thing for a fighter to look past his next opponent but for fans and boxing writers it’s perfectly acceptable to consider what...
In most boxing circles it’s as if things are pretty much settled in the middleweight division, and it’s just a matter of who comes out on...
During his prime — which lasted so long it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when he was fighting at his absolute best — he was physically gifted...