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Stars Needed: Mikey Garcia makes the short list
The best in a new and diverse generation is about to make its claim on future stardom with a wave of new accents...
Procrastination’s affirmer: Notes from the craft
SAN ANTONIO – This week I began painting glass jugs instead of writing. Reading, socializing, Twitter, documentaries, laundry – all of these, it...
Trash Talk? Mayweather’s timing says something else
Never-ending speculation about Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao is boxing's version of Groundhog Day, the 1993 film starring Bill Murray as a weatherman trapped...
Portrait of 2013’s most enjoyable week, part 2
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
The seven-day stretch in mid October that began the Saturday Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley decisioned Juan Manuel...
The 2014 Story of the Year: Pacquiao’s next move
A crystal ball is just another glass chin, which is one way of saying New Year predictions have no chance. They're fun,...
Portrait of 2013’s most enjoyable week, part 1
The seven-day stretch in mid October that began the Saturday Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley decisioned Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez in Thomas & Mack Center...
A 2013 Ballot: Nominees for the good, bad, sad and the ugly
A look-back at 2013 with a nomination, one for every month in the calendar:
Fight of...
Adam Berlin: The struggle of the art
My introduction to Adam Berlin’s writing came 4 1/2 years ago when he wrote for this site an account of Joshua Clottey’s preparations for...
2013 Fighter of the Year: It’s a collective
A look back at any year starts with Fighter of the Year. But the 2013 ballot includes an argument against just...
The Problem, with schadenfreude
SAN ANTONIO – In the weeks to come, it will likely be discovered Adrien Broner suffered from a fatal strain of the deadlywhatever virus...
Ariza, Garcia surprised at news that Rios tested positive
SAN ANTONIO – Brandon Rios’ strength-and-conditioning coach Alex Ariza was surprised at a ringtv.com report Friday that Rios tested positive for a...
Always On Stage: Broner’s fast-moving act also makes him target
SAN ANTONIO – Adrien Broner just wants a little love. Mostly, he loves a stage and that’s where he asked for some...
Guillermo Rigondeaux: At the start of an audacious run that might prove historic
Saturday Cuban world champion Guillermo “The Jackal” Rigondeaux reduced Ghanaian super bantamweight and former bantamweight titlist Joseph King Kong Agbeko, no quotes, to an...
WEIGHTS FROM BROOKLYN
Zab Judah 146 - Paulie Malignaggi 147
Anthony Dirrell 167.4 - Sakio Bika 166.6
Austin Tout - 153.8 - Erislandy Lara 153.2
Shawn Porter 146.8 -...
Winning While Losing: Zab Judah wins maturity in an 18-year fight
Boxing has no time for late bloomers. Old guys, yeah. But the late bloomer is either forgotten, or dismissed for squandering talent,...
Kovalev the thankless kolumn krusher
NEW ORLEANS – If this town is not a traditional place for giving thanks, an American ideal rendered ever more vestigial with each year’s...
WEIGHTS FROM READING, PA
Travis Kauffman 237 – Jason Barnett 230.6
Frankie De Alba 130.6 – Osnel Charles 133
Rafael Montalvo 146.7 – Evencii Dixon 148.1
Travis Thompson 133.9 – Emil...
Taxing Situation: There’s one in every corner for Pacquaio
There’s terrible irony in news that the Philippines has frozen Manny Pacquiao’s financial assets and placed a lien on the Filipino Congressman’s home...
Manny Pacquiao as Macau, in Macau
Saturday at Venetian Resort in Macau a passable imitation of Filipino welterweight Manny Pacquiao whacked about American Brandon Rios in a passable imitation of...
Pacquiao still boxing’s ambassador before a bout to determine whether he’s still a fighter
While waiting to see if Brandon Rios’ first few punches will show Manny Pacquiao to be a shot fighter, it was nice to...
Chicago Middleweight Trinidad Garcia Battles Autism The Best Way He Knows How
Boxing is pain. Chicago middleweight boxer Trinidad Garcia (5-3-3) knew that when he came out of retirement last August. But nothing compared to the...
The joy of Andre Ward
American super middleweight Andre Ward is the sole prizefighter I routinely review in slow motion, the only active world champion whose subtleties bring a...
Weights From Bethlehem, PA
Ronald Cruz 150 Hector Munoz 150.4
Jason Sosa 133.3 Bryne Green 136.3
Darnell Jiles 139.8 Jerome Rodriguez 139.1
Todd Unthank-May 182.8 ...
Setting 2014’s Table: Andre Ward gets his turn
It’s your turn, Andre Ward.
Ward’s comeback Saturday night in Ontario, Calif., against Edwin Rodriquez (HBO 10 p.m. ET/PT) is...
Nonito Donaire as fighter
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – There is a gorgeousness to the seashore that is difficult to debase, and yet this town nearly does it, lining...
Loaded Agenda: Everybody has one on Top Rank card full of high stakes
Affirmation and reclamation are on a loaded card Saturday night that is intriguing on several levels. There’s much to prove for Mikey Garcia,...
Ulli Wegner extends contract with Team Sauerland until early 2016
Ulli Wegner's eagerness to succeed has not waned just yet. The 71-year-old signed a contract extension with Team Sauerland on Tuesday, which binds him...
A new sort of pressure fighter
Saturday on the small stage at Madison Square Garden, before a crowd of 5,000 – in a city of 8.3 million – a throng...
Pacquiao is larger than life, but Rios is the bigger guy
Manny Pacquiao’s larger-than-life persona is intact despite last year’s long fall to the canvas in a stunning reminder that nothing lasts forever....
Avila Makes Short Work of Replacement; Rose Robbed of Victory
REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA – Long touted super bantamweight prospect Manuel “Tino” Avila quickly pounded fill-in opponent Jose Angel Cota into submission after two rounds...
