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FOLLOW EASTER – CRUZ LIVE!!!
Follow all the action as Robert Easter, Jr defends the IBF Lightweight championship against Luis Cruz. The action starts at 9 PM with the...
Power Player: Mikey Garcia’s big KO lights up his career
By Norm Frauenheim-
Power speaks for itself. Find it, and a fighter doesn’t need words. He already has the singular answer for nearly every question....
Mastery vs. flow, and a little Mikey Garcia too
By Bart Barry-
For a decade now when you ask a contemporary prizefighter or even just a kid in the gym eight years from turning...
Borrego stops Mendez in 1
Jose Miguel Borrego stopped Tomas Mendez in the first round of their scheduled 10-round welterweight bout.
Borrego dropped Mendez with a body shot and the...
Heavyweight Tales: Povetkin a mystery wrapped in mess
By Norm Fraienheim-
Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko arrived in New York this week for a timely news conference that helped deflect attention on the...
Thinking about Oxnard and Omaha
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, lightweight, Mikey Garcia, participated in his first significant fight in three years, facing...
ENCORE PRESENTATION OF SANTA CRUZ-FRAMPTON II, GARCIA-ZLATICANIN SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® DOUBLEHEADER TO AIR TONIGHT...
An encore presentation of Saturday’s explosive rematch between Leo Santa Cruz and Carl Frampton, as well as Mikey Garcia’s breakthrough return to boxing’s elite,...
Belfast West: Frampton’s fans jam the weigh-in for Santa Cruz rematch
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – The dateline is accurate. But the feeling was something else. More like Belfast.
Carl Frampton’s fans, Framptonistas, were there,...
Family Fight: Frampton and Santa Cruz fighting each other for the only thing that...
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – The styles are different. Their neighborhoods are on different sides of the globe. But they fight for the same...
Life is brutal but beautiful: R.A. the Rugged Man’s performance compulsion
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - Saturday at a livemusic venue called Fitzgerald’s sometime round midnight underground hip-hop artist R.A. the Rugged Man (R.A. Thorburn)...
Rematch To Rivalry? Frampton-Santa Cruz II might be that fight
By Norm Frauenheim-
Carl Frampton and Leo Santa Cruz fight on Jan. 28 for a second time, early in a year that might be remembered...
Joshua vs Klitschko preview
By Michael Serra-
On April 29th at Wembley Stadium, Anthony Joshua defends his IBF heavyweight championship against former champion Wladimir Klitchsko.
The general consensus is that...
The Becoming: Jack Draws with Degale
By Jimmy Tobin-
It was easy to look past the character being interviewed; rare are the moments when much of interest ever issues from that...
Son of the Legend to be Cinnamoned: Alvarez-Chavez is on
By Bart Barry-
Friday brought what announcement boxing craves - a superfight! And here it is: May 6 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas...
FOLLOW JACK – DEGALE LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action as Badou Jack takes on James DeGale in a super middleweight unification bout. The action begins at 9:30 PM ET...
FOLLOW LARA – FOREMAN LIVE
Follow all the action as Erislandy Lara defends the WBA Super Welterweight title against Yuri Foreman. The action kicks off at 9 PM ET...
First Bell: DeGale-Jack is the opener in boxing’s fight to get off the deck
By Norm Frauenheim-
The James DeGale-Badou Jack fight Saturday night is a good bout and perhaps the first step in an attempt to hit the...
Haye vs Bellew
By Michael Serra
Month after next, Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom outfit put on what many feel will be one of the most explosive of meetings...
Killing pay-per-view: An (unauthorized) oral history
By Bart Barry-
Twenty months after a fight that put boxing pay-per-view in a death spiral, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao - along with their...
Rematch or retirement? Ward keeps all options on the table
By Norm Frauenheim
Andre Ward has talked retirement not just once, but at least twice, since his controversial victory over Sergey Kovalev. It sounds like...
The Fight Game in 2017 redux
By Bart Barry-
Apropos of an article about Western languages’ overuse of nouns when compared to Eastern languages’ preference for verbs I dove in the...
FOLLOW UFC 207 (NUNES – ROUSEY) LIVE
Follow all the action as Amanda Nunes defends the UFC Bantamweight title against the come-backing Ronda Rousey. The action kicks off at 8 PM...
Mourning a tough year and hoping for a better one
By Norm Frauenheim-
One year ends and another begins in a couple of days amid regrets and grief from the last 12 months and a...
2016: A Year Spent Fighting Over Nothing
By Jimmy Tobin
Were Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hour theory more true than useful, this year would have seen many of boxing’s devotees fall just a few...
2016: Bidding an unpersuasive adieu
By Bart Barry
SAN ANTONIO - There’s a perfect park not far from the downtown area here, in fact it may well be considered the...
No Lie: No polygraph needed to ban boxing in Russia
By Norm Frauenheim--
Alexander Povetkin and everybody in his camp were scheduled to undergo a polygraph this week, according to promoter Andrei Ryabinksy, who in...
Decades Under the Influence: Joe Smith Jr. Retires Bernard Hopkins
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, at The Forum in Inglewood, California, Bernard Hopkins tempted boxing’s unwritten rules for the last time. Inviolable as they are,...
Not-missing Bernard Hopkins already
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at a 1/3-full Forum in Inglewood, Calif., handpicked American light heavyweight opponent Joe Smith retired Bernard Hopkins just before Hopkins’ 52nd...
FOLLOW HOPKINS – SMITH, JR. LIVE
Follow all the action as the legendary Bernard Hopkins wraps up his Hall of Fame career when he takes on Joe Smith, Jr. in...
From common to special, the fight never ends for Bernard Hopkins
By Norm Frauenheim-
Shtick is often strategy and sometimes dangerous. Bernard Hopkins knows that, perhaps better than anybody. He’s been using it like a survival...
