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FOLLOW LOMACHENKO – PEDRAZA LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action as Vasyl Lomachenko and Jose Pedraza square off in a lightweight unification bout. The action kicks off at 9 PM...
Wilder-Fury: Heavyweight revival only starts with an immediate rematch
By Norm Frauenheim
It’s been called a heavyweight resurrection and maybe that’s what it was when Tyson Fury climbed to his feet while Jack Reiss...
No more masks, just an opening bell awaits Wilder and Fury
By Norm Frauenheim-
LOS ANGELES – Deontay Wilder wore a mask. It covered his mouth and nose in menacing black. Tyson Fury laughed at the...
Pounds and Pints: Without them, Tyson Fury has a chance against Wilder
By Norm Frauenheim-
LOS ANGELES – There aren’t many hints. Just the taunts, trash talk and everything else expected in the parade of hyperbole before...
Wilder-Fury: Serious analysts need not apply
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Los Angeles undefeated 6-foot-9 Brit Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury will toe the line with undefeated 6-foot-7 American Deontay “The...
FOLLOW BIVOL – PASCAL LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action as Dmitry Bivol defends the WBA Lightweight title against former champion Jean Pascal. the action kicks off at 10 PM...
Pacquiao Back In The USA: The nostalgia is there, but is there still a...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Manny Pacquiao’s return to the United States this week has a nostalgic feel. He stopped in New York. Then, Los Angeles. It...
Good for Maurice Hooker, good for boxing
By Bart Barry-
Friday night in Oklahoma, Saturday morning east of there, undefeated Dallas junior welterweight Maurice Hooker successfully defended his WBO title by stopping...
Oscar Valdez Jr.’s dad poised to take the first step in a family comeback
By Norm Frauenheim
TUCSON – It’s the beginning of a comeback, for a father and a son.
The dad, Oscar Valdez Sr., will take the...
Wilder One-Dimensional? Not if you listen to him
By Norm Frauenheim-
Deontay Wilder is a man with one punch and many words.
Those words – unending, often contradictory and always brash – were...
Oleksandr Usyk – our wonderful secret
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in England undefeated Ukrainian southpaw Oleksandr Usyk defended his trove of cruiserweight world titles - Ring, WBA, IBF, WBC, WBO -...
FOLLOW USYK – BELLEW LIVE!!!
Follow all the action as Oleksandr Usyk defends the undisputed cruiserweight title against Tony Bellew. The action begins at 5 PM ET / 10...
Tony Bellew looks forward to stopping the “monster’’ he sees in Usyk
By Norm Frauenheim-
The gap-toothed smile is Alfred E. Neuman-like. But the eyes are mad, full of enough menace to definitively answer that comic-book...
Brandon Adams checks in at 160 lbs. for The Contender Finale
PHILADELPHIA, PENN.(November 8, 2018)-Brandon Adams weighed in at the middleweight limit of 160 pounds while his opponent Shane Mosley, Jr. checked in at 158.8...
Unfortunate sympathy’n the Super Series
By Bart Barry-
Saturday brought yet another delightful multihour multiplatform celebration of a sport even weekly columnists feared might die four years ago (Pacquiao-Algieri, for...
FOLLOW BERCHELT – ROMAN LIVE
Follow all the action as Miguel Berchelt defends the WBC Super Featherweight title against Miguel Roman. The action kicks off at 9:30 PM ET...
FOLLOW BURNETT/DONAIRE; TAYLOR /MARTIN LIVE
Follow all the action from Glasgow Scotland as Ryan Burnett defends his bantamweight world title against Nonito Donaire as well as Josh Taylor taking...
On The Ropes: Decades of corruption have put Olympic boxing in jeopardy
By Norm Frauenheim-
Michael Conlan’s obscene gesture at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games threatens to become a symbolic goodbye to Olympic boxing in a...
Second-lining: The WBSS parades through New Orleans
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on DAZN, boxing’s now-essential network, the quarterfinals of the World Boxing Super Series super lightweight tournament happened in New Orleans. ...
FOLLOW JACOBS – DEREVYANCHENKO LIVE
Follow all the action as Daniel Jacobs and Sergiy Derevyanchenko vie for the vacant IBF Middleweight title. The action kicks off at 10 PM...
All In The Family: Thomas Valdez sees some of himself in Oscar Valdez Jr.
By Norm Frauenheim-
TUCSON, Ariz. – They are first cousins. Sparring cousins, too. They even look alike.
Look into Thomas Valdez’ eyes, and you see Oscar...
The Saturday mashup
By Bart Barry-
Three broadcasts Saturday, and nothing that happened was quite great and some was very good but everything was at least good, and...
Big Deal: It is a long shot, but Canelo has a chance at becoming...
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s a huge bet on one fighter. That also makes it oh-so risky. But give DAZN, a global streaming service, credit...
Orthodox / southpaw: Enjoying Crawford-Benavidez from different angles
By Bart Barry-
GUADALAJARA, Mexico - “How many services must one rent monthly to watch a championship prizefight?” went my thoughts Saturday from an apartment...
FOLLOW CRAWFORD – BENAVIDEZ LIVE!!
Follow all the action LIVE as Terence Crawford defends the WBO Welterweight title against Jose Benavidez, Jr. The action kicks off at 10:30 PM...
Wild scuffle erupts at Crawford-Benavidez weigh-in
By Norm Frauenheim-
OMAHA, Neb. – Terence Crawford and Jose Benavidez Jr. did more than exchange insults Friday as escalating tensions led to a weigh-in...
What’s left to say? Crawford, Benavidez about to fight for the final say-so
By Norm Frauenheim-
OMAHA, Neb. – There’s not much left to say, or even places to say it. They’ve insulted each other in the gym....
Naoya Inoue and a pox on pandering henceforth
By Bart Barry-
Sunday morning on DAZN Japan’s Naoya “The Monster” Inoue performed the feats of scoring his second knockout as a bantamweight and completing...
FOLLOW KHABIB – MCGREGOR LIVE
Follow all the action as it happens as Khabib Nurmagomedov defends the UFC Lightweight title against former two-division champion Conor McGregor
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Big Talk, Big Risk: Benavidez talks his way into a fight with the feared...
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s a role nobody ever foresaw for Jose Benavidez, Jr.
At 19, he was shy and talented, a prodigy embarrassed by what...
