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Only one winner in the Khan-Maidana poll
Polls can be as reliable as scorecards. About as scientific, too. That’s why it’s hard to know what to make of Floyd Mayweather...
An adieu to viciousness
The meaningful part of American welterweight “Vicious” Victor Ortiz’s odd career ended Thursday night in an off-Broadway show with an off-Broadway opponent, about seven...
Andy Nance: Boxing Lifer
The sport and business of boxing has a way of testing a participant’s resolve and determination. No matter what angle or level of involvement...
One More Time: Pacquiao-Bradley rematch inevitable
Rematches can be predictable remakes, or tiresome redundancies, or just unnecessary. But Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley is none of the above. It had to...
RUSTAM NUGAEV ISSUES CHALLENGE TO MIKEY GARCIA “IF YOU MOVE UP TO 135 YOU...
NEW JERSEY (January 28, 2014) - Gary Shaw Productions lightweight contender Rustam Nugaev (26-6-1, 16 KOs), who is ranked WBA # 3, WBC #...
Garcia is ready to be redeemed by Gamboa
Saturday in the little room at Madison Square Garden, Oxnard’s Mikey Garcia made another admirably professional showing, this time in the super featherweight division,...
Ali comparison to Sherman’s rant is just more trash talk
Richard Sherman’s controversial interview with Erin Andrews after Seattle’s NFL playoff victory over San Francisco is being interpreted and analyzed more often than...
The Legend’s Son comes back to home (too)
SAN ANTONIO – Thursday, Mexican “Son of the Legend” Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. strode across the Alamodome stage to a podium that would conceal,...
Q & A with Anthony Caramanno
ATLANTIC CITY (JANUARY 19, 2014)--Anthony Caramanno, born and bred in Staten Island, is the only Italian-American to ever win 3 NY Daily News Golden...
Ray Robinson for NABO title headlines boxing Feb. 21 at Dover Downs Hotel &...
DOVER, Del. (Jan. 17, 2014) — Dover Downs Hotel & Casino with Champ’s Management announce a championship boxing event on Friday, Feb. 21,...
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...
