Golden Boy Promotions, the company founded by Oscar De La Hoya, brought Saul “Canelo” Alvarez into the fold in January of 2010. At the time, Alvarez...
In August of last year, Anthony Yarde went into Sergey Kovalev’s backyard in Chelyabinsk, Russia, and almost left with Kovalev’s WBO light heavyweight title belt. He...
In a story first broken by Mike Coppinger of the Athletic, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez — boxing’s biggest draw and the consensus #1 pound-for-pound fighter in the...
The light-heavyweight decade just passed was neither as impressive as cruiserweight nor as underwhelming as heavyweight when placed under the microscope; most notable was the emergence...
If you watched the super featherweight championship fight between a Philly fighter and South El Monte fighter last week in Miami, one man crucial to the...
Jeison Rosario’s Upset Crowns This Week’s Edition of HITS and MISSES There’s was plenty of quality boxing action available for consumption this weekend in the U.S.,...
3 Punch Combo: Notes on Saturday’s Top Rank Card and Friday’s ‘Sho-Box’ Overture THREE PUNCH COMBO — Light heavyweight is currently one of the deepest divisions...
As Canelo Alvarez was advancing into boxing’s biggest attraction, there were always critics disparaging his accomplishments. To the fault-finders, noted Thomas Hauser, it was always something:...
Years ago a legendary fight manager once advised “don’t be a guy who prepares fighters, be a professor who teaches boxing.” Those words forever guide our...
With the decade drawing to a close, it’s time to acknowledge the Fighter of the Decade. There are plenty to choose from; it’s not an easy...