Boxing News Columns
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The “K9” cure
Here’s one more reason to attend fights whenever possible rather than sit complacently on a couch feeling satisfied by a medium that tells you...
Looking ahead: The next pound-for-pound generation
The furor surrounding Tim Bradley’s victory over Manny Pacquiao is more of the same in a tiresome, if not redundant, succession of...
Machito time, European girls and blue-raspberry slurpees
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday, Hector “Machito” Camacho Jr., fighting for the first time in 16 months, dropped an overmatched opponent on the red canvas...
Hargraves Invades Minnesota in Return on Saturday
Light middleweight prospect and former amateur standout Richard Hargraves ends a fourteen-month layoff many miles from his hometown of San Francisco, California as he...
No chance: Trying to judge the state of the game after a crazy few...
From Duane Ford to Forbes, the rapid succession of headlines during the last few weeks is either a shotgun blast that adds up...
Paul Nave Appeals to his Community
Hoping to bring professional boxing back to his home area by staging the second ever such event at Albert Park Field in San Rafael,...
Chavez Jr. and El Paso: Correcting misapprehensions
EL PASO, Texas – Little more than a pitstop on I-10 or a piece of Fort Bliss infrastructure in the imagination of most Americans...
Looked like a Pacquiao Landslide, but the Math Says No it wasn’t
I did not score the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley Jr. fight two Saturdays ago. Having felt cheated out of a chance to be outraged like...
Pacquiao-Mayweather: Pacquiao wins this week’s round on the public-opinion scorecards
Judges have been tough during the last week on the only two fighters the general public knows.
First, three judges score...
Bradley-Pacquiao: Allowing plenty of faults
LAS VEGAS – The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Arts, a short cab ride from the week’s poorly cooled and hastily erected media tent outside...
Pacquiao plans to do a lateral dance away from any chance of a Bradley...
LAS VEGAS – Timothy Bradley says he has worked hard to eliminate the head-butt from his attack Saturday night in bid to upset...
Pacquiao the peacemaker in deciding that Ariza will be in the corner with Roach...
LAS VEGAS – Born-again Manny Pacquiao has been more of a diplomat than a preacher for the last few days. He played the peacemaker...
Pacquiao the convert, Bradley the shameless
Manny Pacquiao can be beaten, but this is not news because any man who ties gloves on his fists and makes combat with large...
All Set for “Four Warned”
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA -- Saturday night the Home Depot Center in nearby Carson hosts the highly anticipated four-fight Showtime-televised card headlined by the cruiserweight...
The Wright Stuff: That old defiance is still there in Winky’s bid to beat...
If defiance is an art form, Winky Wright is an artist. He might not practice it in quite the style of a Bernard...
CARD SHAPING UP FOR JUNE 13TH CARD AT THE ROBERT TREAT HOTEL IN NEWARK
NEWARK , NJ (May 31, 2012)--—On Wednesday night June 13th, The Robert Treat Hotel in Newark will play host to a night of championship...
UNDEFEATED TAVORIS CLOUD DEFENDS IBF LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE AGAINST JEAN PASCAL ON SATURDAY, AUG....
NEW YORK (May 29, 2012) – A light heavyweight world championship showdown—potentially the division's best matchup in years between two young fighters in their...
Carl Froch: Against the hypothetical
“I’m very tough, you know,” Carl Froch said Saturday, after he ruined Lucian Bute. “I’m a bit of an animal.”
It was the sort...
Benavidez to test wrist and future in his first bout since surgery
Jose Benavidez Jr.’s apprenticeship will move on to another stage, from patient prospect to potential contender, if he can get through a test Saturday...
Josesito Lopez to face Ortiz
Josesito Lopez will step in to face Victor Ortiz on June 23rd in Los Angeles after Andre Berto tested positive for a banned substance...
MAJEWSKI, FITZPATRICK BOX FOR NABF MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE JULY 7 AT...
Atlantic City, NJ—Two middleweight warriors with similar aggressive styles collide when Partick Majewski, of Atlantic City, NJ, and Chris Fitzpatrick, of Cleveland, OH, meet...
Another night in the gym
Inside the double blue doors, old wood with matte aluminum handles, the heater is off because with all the bodies inside and the humidity...
Political life leaves Pacquiao open to punches he can’t counter
Boxing and politics are impossible to separate. Proof rests in Muhammad Ali’s opposition to the Viet Nam war. But the ring and political office...
Tahdooahnippah to Taylor: “I’m coming for you!”
Lawton, OK (May 17, 2012) – WBC Continental Americas Middleweight champion George “Comanche Boy” Tahdooahnippah is becoming increasingly impatient for a date with one...
AMATEUR STAR TOKA KAHN-CLARY SIGNS WITH TOP RANK
LAS VEGAS, NEV. (May 15, 2012) – Top Rank announced today the signing of amateur sensation TOKA KAHN-CLARY, from Providence, Rhode Island. Kahn-Clary,...
How I overcame Low V
We must learn to see in boxing’s story the energy and cruelty our rapturous drive demands, like the drum and swish and smack and...
Pay Attention: Peterson camp wasn’t in the drug-testing flap that led to KO of...
Lamont Peterson’s camp must not have been reading websites, Twitter or Facebook when ESPN reported just two days after Peterson’s upset on Dec....
Above a Texas bullring, a reminder about Floyd Mayweather
SAN ANTONIO – Suspended above a bullring on a wire-mesh floor below a cinema-size screen, one story and 50 yards from where Cowboys Dancehall’s...
Andrade dumps Cisneros in one
Demetrius Andrade scored a highlight reel first round knockout over Rudy Cisneros in a scheduled ten round Jr.Middleweight bout at the Mohegan Sun in...
WBA LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION BEIBUT SHUMENOV RETURNS SATURDAY, JUNE 2 AGAINST ENRIQUE ORNELAS...
LAS VEGAS (May 4, 2012) - World Boxing Association ("WBA") Light Heavyweight World Champion Beibut Shumenov returns on June 2 to make his fourth...
