This past weekend boxing fans were treated to an exciting action-packed WBC welterweight title bout between former titlists Shawn Porter 29-2-1 (17) and Danny Garcia 34-2...
After Deontay Wilder stopped Luis Ortiz in round ten this past March, I wrote a story comparing Wilder to Naseem Hamed. The unorthodox manner in which...
In the hours leading up to last week’s heavyweight title fight between Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz, there were rumors that Ortiz’s status was in question....
Boxing fans like to speculate about fights that didn’t happen almost as much as they love offering their opinions, with much conviction and passion, about those...
Prior to his last bout in March he was undefeated, closing in on Floyd Mayweather’s record and was ranked no lower than number two on most...
CANASTOTA, N.Y. – He might have mentioned deceased mentors George Benton, Lou Duva and Dan Duva, as well as a few others who to one degree...
CANASTOTA, N.Y. – Boxers, and their individual life stories, are often as unique as fingerprints. If that wasn’t already obvious, the paths taken by Marco Antonio...
If you’re familiar with prizefighting you know the significance of Mexican idol versus Mexican idol. Putting Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) versus Julio Cesar Chavez...
THE GREATEST FEATHERWEIGHTS, PART TWO OF A FIVE-PART SERIES: Legacy used to be a big word but as Lou Dibella puts it in “Rocky Balboa”, “every...
MARCO ANTONIO BARRERA AND “THE FATHER” — Marco Antonio Barrera, “The Baby-Faced Assassin,” will soon see his plaque up on a wall in the same Canastota...