Next in Line: Bakhodir Jalolov looking to become next Heavyweight star from former...
Over the past decade, fighters from Eastern Europe have infiltrated and have become dominant fighters in the world of professional boxing. Fighters like...
FOLLOW BELTRAN – MOSES LIVE!!!
Follow all the action as Ray Beltran and Paulus Moses vie for the vacant WBO Lightweight title. The action kicks off at 9 PM...
Beltran: A famed trainer introduced the fighter and he’s been fighting ever since
By Norm Frauenheim-
Emanuel Steward’s impact on boxing endures long after the famed trainer died. He’s been gone for more than five years now. Yet...
Enchiladas, cryptocurrency and Frank Bascombe
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - An uncommon bout last week with a common cold and what distraction it brings, maybe this is what adults...
Roy Jones the Senior looks back and sees an all-time Junior
By Norm Frauenheim-
Roy Jones, a lot more of a Senior than a Junior these days, walks away and hopefully stays away after what he...
Comfortably contemplating devastation in South Texas
By Bart Barry-
PORT ARANSAS, Texas - Directly across Corpus Christi Bay from American Bank Center, a 30-mile circle and ferry ride by car, this...
FOLLOW RAMIREZ – AHMED; ANCAJAS – GONZALEZ LIVE
Follow all the actions as Gilberto Ramirez defends the WBO Super Middleweight title against Habib Ahmed. The action kicks off at 10:15 PM ET...
The G.O.A.T: The original is still the only one
By Norm Frauenheim-
Amid all of the hyperventilating, over-eating and hyperbole preceding the annual Super Bowl spectacle, there’s now another reason for indigestion:
The G.O.A.T. debate.
The...
FOLLOW MATTHYSSE – KIRAM & LINARES – GESTA LIVE!!!
Follow all the action as Lucas Matthysse and Tewa Kiram vie for the vacant WBA Welterweight title. the action begins at 10:30 PM ET...
Showtime announces schedule with lots of promise and one big question
By Norm Frauenheim-
It didn’t exactly resemble the NFL’s release of its annual schedule. Then again, nothing remotely resembles boxing.
Still, Showtime tried to put...
Spence rolls in the waiting game
By Jimmy Tobin-
Errol “The Truth” Spence made the first defense of his welterweight trinket at Barclays Center in Brooklyn Saturday night, comprehensively battering Lamont...
Predation, mercy, mercenariness: Spence melts Peterson in Brooklyn
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Barclays Center welterweight titlist Errol Spence unmanned former junior welterweight titlist Lamont Peterson in a very good fight that was...
FOLLOW SPENCE – PETERSON LIVE!!
Follow all the action as Errol Spence, Jr. makes the 1st defense of his IBF Welterweight title when he takes on former two-division champion...
David Benavidez promises to knock out the doubts
By Norm Frauenheim-
He’s a prospect and a champion. It’s hard to be both. Perhaps, impossible. But that’s the dilemma for David Benavidez as he...
In lieu of a preview: Revisiting Israel Vazquez vs. Jhonny Gonzalez
By Bart Barry-
It’s the new year. Time for a preview.
Nope.
Some laziness and more wisdom say a preview of what’s to come in this...
Twelve predictions for every page in a new calendar
By Norm Frauenheim-
Finally, a new calendar with all of the renewed optimism and good humor that goes with it. Twelve predictions, one for every...
Mosaic of 2017’s most ambivalent fight, part 2
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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What a younger Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez might’ve done with a smaller version of Wisaksil...
The Regicide: On Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
By Jimmy Tobin-
He was the opponent that night in March, if not quite in the derogatory sense, where matchmaking calculus eliminates a fighter’s prospects...
Happy New Year? Four reasons to hope for one
By Norm Frauenheim-
A promising year ends, but the promise will go as stale as cheap champagne if fights we talked about in 2017 don’t...
Mosaic of 2017’s most ambivalent fight, part 1
By Bart Barry-
We were in Carson, Calif., to celebrate Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez for the joy he brought us through a spectacular career predictably obscured...
Forget The Rest: 2017 will be remembered for Joshua-Klitschko
By Norm Fruenheim-
It’s been a year full of lots of things.
Full of it, perhaps, if 2017 will be remembered for the spectacle-over-substance display of...
Audio: Caleb Truax and Ray Flores on The Abrams Boxing Hour
Marc is joined by IBF super middleweight champion Caleb Truax and Boxing broadcaster Ray Flores on this episode.
Horsing around in Jalisco, watching David Lemieux
By Bart Barry-
GUADALAJARA, Mexico - This city is 4,500 kilometers southwest of Laval, Quebec. That’s sensible a place as any to start a...
FOLLOW SAUNDERS – LEMIEUX LIVE
Follow all the action Live from Quebec, Canada as Billy Joe Saunders defends the WBO Middleweight title against David Lemieux. The action begins at...
On the Move: Crawford’s jump takes him up scale and to the top of...
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s a move up, on the scale and to the top of the ballot.
Terence Crawford’s bid to own next year opens with...
FOLLOW HORN – CORCORAN LIVE!!!
Follow all the action as Jeff Horn makes the 1st defense of the WBO Welterweight title against Gary Corcoran
NO BROWSER REFRESH NEEDLED. THE PAGE...
What’s not to love about Lomachenko(?)
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night at Madison Square Garden Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko convinced his fourth consecutive opponent to quit on his stool. His victim this...
A euphoric redefining of the classic fistic catharsis wrought by . . . nah,...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN Ukrainian super featherweight champion Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko made undefeated Cuban super bantamweight champion Guillermo “The Jackal” Rigondeaux quit after...
FOLLOW LOMACHENKO – RIGONDEAUX LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action as Vasyl Lomachenko takes on Guillermo Rigondeaux for the WBO Junior Lightweight world championship in a 1st time battle of...
