Professional boxers need to stay active for two reasons: (1) They have a short window to achieve their goals and leave the sport well-off financially, and...
Boxers Fighting the Best and Doing It Again for the First Time: Part Two As mentioned in Part One, the phrase “cherry picking” gained meaningful traction...
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...
Errol Spence Jr is the TSS 2020 Comeback Fighter of the Year It is not unusual for boxers – accomplished individuals in any field, actually –...
Canelo Alvarez Threepeats as the BWAA’s Pound-for-Pound King NEWS RELEASE: It’s been a while since the Boxing Writers Association of America conducted its bimonthly pound-for-pound top-10...
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...
Eric Drath is a very good filmmaker. The release of Macho: The Hector Camacho Story on Showtime this month demonstrates that yet again. Drath (pictured) was...
HITS and MISSES: The ‘Truth’ About Errol Spence and More There was plenty of boxing to consume over the first weekend in December. Most notably, Errol...
Perhaps the most prescient point made by analyst Lennox Lewis during Saturday night’s pay-per-view telecast of unified welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr.’s comeback victory over two-division...