Another big weekend of boxing has passed in Japan but it seems the boxing juggernaut that is The Land of the Rising Sun is losing steam....
You wake into a world this Sunday the fourteenth of May, 2017, which James Toney rules as heavyweight champion of the world. Toney picked up the...
“The referee,” George Foreman once observed, “is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight – besides the fighters.” And, for all that...
The narrative surrounding Anthony Joshua is the most familiar in all of boxing. Here is a young man caught up in the endless cycle of drugs...
GREATEST FEATHERWEIGHTS, PART V: It is possible that the Top Five listed below is the single finest collection of fighters I have assembled in running down...
GREATEST FEATHERWEIGHTS, PART IV — Monsters abound in this, the penultimate installment of The Fifty Greatest Featherweights of all time. That said, the demarcation line between...
From the sublime to the obscure, Part 3 of my rundown of the Fifty Greatest Featherweights of all time has as wide a variety of pugilists...
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...
The Featherweights were a maddening project. Part of the fun for me in undertaking this project, which has already seen me run through the greatest heavyweights,...
INOUE KOs KONO — Naoya “The Monster” Inoue stepped up to 12-0 at the expense of Japanese hardman Kohei Kono (now 32-10-1) in Tokyo, Japan today....