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
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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...
Lomachenko, Rigondeaux to test each other and the state of the game
By Norm Frauenheim-
Boxing loves comebacks and it looks as if a business always reported to be dying might be poised to make another one.
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Pretty in Pink: On Miguel Cotto
By Jimmy Tobin-
There are worse ways to retire. In a sport that rarely bids its fraternity a kindly farewell, Miguel Cotto, who dropped a...
Goodbye to Miguel Cotto: A well-publicized and honestly blank canvas
By Bart Barry-
Saturday HBO said goodbye to Puerto Rican junior middleweight Miguel Cotto who lost a close but fair decision to New York’s Sadam...
FOLLOW COTTO – ALI LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action as Miguel Cotto rides off into the sunset as he defends the WBO Super Welterweight title against Sadam Ali. The...
Gold Road: This time it’s for money instead of medals
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s historical for the continuum that Vasily Lomachenko and Guillermo Rigondeaux represent. Four gold, two each, at four Olympics over 12...
Krushing it: Kovalev stuffs us with memories of a better Thanksgiving weekend
By Bart Barry-
Saturday Russian light heavyweight Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev laid waste to an otherwise-anonymous Ukrainian named Vyacheslav “Two YYs” Shabranskyy in the sort of...
FOLLOW KOVALEV – SHABRANSKYY LIVE!!
Follow all the action as Sergey Kovalev looks to regain the WBO Light Heavyweight title against Vyacheslav Shabranskyy. The action begins at 10 PM...
End of the Beginning: A New Year looms amid promising signs in 2017
By Norm Frauenheim-
Three notable fights over nearly five-and-a-half weeks between now and a New Year are the end of what might be another beginning.
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Thanksgiving meanderings and musings
By Bart Barry-
Contrary to accepted architectural practices, this part of this column generally gets written last. You’re supposed to tell them what you’re...
