Haye vs Bellew
By Michael Serra
Month after next, Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom outfit put on what many feel will be one of the most explosive of meetings...
Killing pay-per-view: An (unauthorized) oral history
By Bart Barry-
Twenty months after a fight that put boxing pay-per-view in a death spiral, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao - along with their...
Rematch or retirement? Ward keeps all options on the table
By Norm Frauenheim
Andre Ward has talked retirement not just once, but at least twice, since his controversial victory over Sergey Kovalev. It sounds like...
The Fight Game in 2017 redux
By Bart Barry-
Apropos of an article about Western languages’ overuse of nouns when compared to Eastern languages’ preference for verbs I dove in the...
Mourning a tough year and hoping for a better one
By Norm Frauenheim-
One year ends and another begins in a couple of days amid regrets and grief from the last 12 months and a...
2016: A Year Spent Fighting Over Nothing
By Jimmy Tobin
Were Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hour theory more true than useful, this year would have seen many of boxing’s devotees fall just a few...
2016: Bidding an unpersuasive adieu
By Bart Barry
SAN ANTONIO - There’s a perfect park not far from the downtown area here, in fact it may well be considered the...
No Lie: No polygraph needed to ban boxing in Russia
By Norm Frauenheim--
Alexander Povetkin and everybody in his camp were scheduled to undergo a polygraph this week, according to promoter Andrei Ryabinksy, who in...
Decades Under the Influence: Joe Smith Jr. Retires Bernard Hopkins
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, at The Forum in Inglewood, California, Bernard Hopkins tempted boxing’s unwritten rules for the last time. Inviolable as they are,...
Not-missing Bernard Hopkins already
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at a 1/3-full Forum in Inglewood, Calif., handpicked American light heavyweight opponent Joe Smith retired Bernard Hopkins just before Hopkins’ 52nd...
FOLLOW HOPKINS – SMITH, JR. LIVE
Follow all the action as the legendary Bernard Hopkins wraps up his Hall of Fame career when he takes on Joe Smith, Jr. in...
From common to special, the fight never ends for Bernard Hopkins
By Norm Frauenheim-
Shtick is often strategy and sometimes dangerous. Bernard Hopkins knows that, perhaps better than anybody. He’s been using it like a survival...
“Detract from what?”: Charlo Derails Williams
By Jimmy Tobin--
Saturday night, at the USC Galen Center in Los Angeles, California, Jermall Charlo defended his sliver of the super welterweight championship by...
Victory laps and laps: Crawford closes questionful Molina
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Omaha junior welterweight Nebraskan Terence “Bud” Crawford (29-0) spiralsnuffed Californian John Molina (29-6) in the eighth round of their match...
Busy Saturday and two big questions precede 2017
By Norm Frauenheim-
The end is near for another forgettable year, memorable mostly for fights that didn’t happen and a controversy still raging over the...
An honest prizefight: Gassiev decisions Lebedev in Moscow
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Moscow Russian cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev lost his title by split decision to Russian Murat Gassiev by scores that were...
Just say no to more talk of Mayweather-McGregor
By Norm Frauenheim-
Talk, talk and more talk about Floyd Mayweather Jr.-versus-Conor McGregor continue to light up social media these days with no end...
Better than never (if barely): On Vasyl Lomachenko-Nicholas Walters
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, junior lightweight, Vasyl Lomachenko, made a quitter of Nicholas Walters in one of the...
Oopsie doopsie
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Las Vegas the runnerup for 2016’s most-anticipated fight featured undefeated Jamaican Nicholas “Axe Man” Walters getting stripped bare in a...
FOLLOW LOMACHENKO – WALTERS LIVE!!!
Follow all the action as Vasyl Lomachenko defends the WBO Super Featherweight title against Nicholas Walters. The action begins at 10:35 ET / 5:35...
From The East To The Beast: Lomachenko might be the best
By Norm Frauenheim-
The evolution of boxing’s surprising new generation – fighters from the old Soviet Union – continues Saturday with Vasyl Lomachenko, who many...
At least the respect was deserved: On Sergey Kovalev-Andre Ward
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, light heavyweights Sergey Kovalev and Andre Ward provided a proper prizefight for...
A triumph of sorts: Ward decisions Kovalev barely or not at all
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas undefeated American light heavyweight Andre “SOG” Ward decisioned unanimously and narrowly undefeated Russian Sergey “Krusher”...
FOLLOW KOVALEV – WARD LIVE!!!
Follow all the action as Sergey Kovalev defends the IBF/WBA/WBO Light Heavyweight championships against fellow undefeated Andre Ward. The action kicks off at 9...
Kovalev-Ward: Fighting for a classic and an audience
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – On the scale, there was no difference. Not even a fraction of an ounce separated the two. It was...
Andre Ward never forgets the lessons from losses long ago
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Andre Ward has done nothing but win for as long as just about anybody can remember. In fact, it’s...
Ward, Kovalev and the enchanting unknown
By Bart Barry--
Here’s what’s going to happen Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on HBO pay-per-view: American Andre “SOG” Ward will fight Russian...
Ward-Kovalev: Different roads lead to the same place
By Norm Frauenheim-
Only the records are similar, almost identical. Unbeaten on one resume. Unbeaten on the other. But that’s where the similarities end.
...
Playing out the Pacquiao hand
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on UNLV’s campus or thereabouts Filipino senator Manny Pacquiao unanimously decisioned American welterweight titlist Jessie Vargas in a good match that...
FOLLOW PACQUIAO – VARGAS LIVE!!!
Follow all the action as Manny Pacquiao tries to regain the WBO Welterweight title from Jessie Vargas. The action kicks off at 9 PM ET...
