Heavyweight Calm: Nothing insulting about the Banks-Mitchell rematch
They may find Jimmy Hoffa before America finds another great heavyweight. It’s almost redundant to call the search futile. Yet it continues Saturday, mostly...
Garcia, Lopez, Bearden and resilience
DALLAS – Thirty five miles due west of American Airlines Arena, where Oxnard’s Mikey Garcia unpicked Puerto Rican Juan Manuel Lopez Saturday, there is...
Early Results From Dallas
DALLAS – If this city’s partisan-Mexican crowd came out Saturday to see one of its own blast away a rugged but overmatched opponent in...
Adrien Broner brushes past the obvious
Adrien Broner has used his favorite theatrical prop to comb his hair and stroke his ego, but has yet employed it to brush up...
Maidana’s power prevails in TKO over Lopez
CARSON, Calif. – They collided like a couple of weather fronts. One from Argentina. The other from Riverside, Calif. Only one would be left...
At The Crossroads: Lopez, Maidana fight for relevancy
Josesito Lopez has a nickname that is a mixed blessing. He’s called the Riverside Rocky because he came from nowhere. If the nickname sticks,...
Her vengeance unassured
She sets her left foot slightly in front of her right and tries to keep them a shoulders’ width apart, whatever that means, and...
Derrick Wilson digs deep and upsets Brualio Santos as Golden Boy rocks South Florida
Boxing was back at the BB&T tonight with the second installment of Golden Boy Boxing at the BB&T Center in Sunrise Florida. This...
Risk-to-Reward: Mayweather has Canelo in his calculations
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s brilliant career and shrewd mastery of the risk-to-reward ratio are no coincidence. Mayweather has put himself into history’s pound-for-pound debate and...
Risk-to-Reward: Mayweather has Canelo in his calculations
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s brilliant career and shrewd mastery of the risk-to-reward ratio are no coincidence. Mayweather has put himself into history’s pound-for-pound debate...
MAYWEATHER – CANELO IS ON!!!
According to his official Twitter account, Pound for Pound King Floyd Mayweather will take on WBC/WBA Super Welterweight champion Saul Alvarez on September 14th...
Froch and Kessler, gentlemen and consensus
In round 6 of their super middleweight match, Saturday, Englishman Carl “The Cobra” Froch and Dane Mikkel “Viking Warrior” Kessler briefly got separated by...
Froch gets revenge and defeats Kessler in Barnburner
Carl Froch extracted revenge and retained the IBF and won the WBA Super Middleweight title with a twelve round unanimous decision over Mikkel Kessler...
FOLLOW FROCH – KESSLER 2 LIVE!!
Follow all the action LIVE from the O2 Arena in London as Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler meet in a unification rematch. The...
Back in the Debate: Ward’s skillful snub of the WBC re-ignites pound-for-pound campaign
Andre Ward kept himself in the pound-for-pound debate with smarts evident all over again this week when he trashed the World Boxing Council...
The Machinery of enthusiasm
“Yes, right,” said Argentine Lucas Matthysse in Spanish, Saturday, when asked if he next wished to fight junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia. “For that...
Matthysse enters Mayweather sweepstakes with 3rd round destruction of Peterson
ATLANTIC CITY--In a fight between two reigning beltholders, Lucas Matthysse made a bold statement by wrecking IBF Jr. Welterweight champion Lamont Peterson in round...
Mayweather’s spot on top of money list hinges on a projection
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s No.1 spot on another list of highest-paid athletes is attached to a key word: Projected.
Sports Illustrated projects Mayweather to...
Un-forgiving Lamont Peterson
To return to aficionados’ better graces, Saturday Lamont Peterson must perform a stern act of contrition at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, one from...
Canelo scores biggest win in Mayweather’s decision over Guerrero
Canelo Alvarez emerges as the biggest winner from Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s predictable and perhaps necessary victory over Robert Guerrero. Argue you all you...
A Mayday in September
Saturday heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko knocked out a 240-pound Italian named Francesco Pianeta, and few in the United States without an internet connection...
Five More: Mayweather wins opening salvo in Showtime deal that points to Canelo
LAS VEGAS – It wasn’t exactly easy money. More like seed money.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. planted what he hopes will blossom into five
more Showtime fights...
No More Rehearsals: Mayweather-Guerrero fight to say it all
LAS VEGAS – It was a weigh-in noteworthy for what didn’t happen. Ruben Guerrero behaved himself. Sort of.
Expectations...
Awkward Neutrality: Manager Espinoza has both fighters, but no options to cheer or boo
LAS VEGAS – Frank Espinoza isn’t from Switzerland, but the manager might wish he was in the Alpine nation known for neutrality Saturday night...
EARLY RESULTS FROM CORONA, CA
In the opening bout of the evening, Fernando Fuentes scored a four round majority decision over Cristian Lorenzo.
The bantamweight bout featured two undefeated fighters...
Martinez and Datsyuk: The erosion of reflex in great figures of preparedness and grit
DALLAS – The career of middleweight champion Sergio Martinez will not end any better than our sport ends its every practitioner’s career, and that...
Garcia decisions Judah in exciting title defense
NEW YORK--Danny Garcia retained the WBA/WBC?Ring Magazine Super Lightweight championship with a twelve round unanimous decision over former two division world champion Zab Judah...
Sergio Martinez: Middleweight champ an undisputed celebrity in Argentina
In city where almost every other street seems to be named Peron or Evita, promoter Lou DiBella saw a middleweight’s name on...
Cinnamon selling Cinnamon
SAN ANTONIO – Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is a better fighter than he appears on television, which is an ironical development given how desperately...
Cinnamon-sprinkled ferocity: Canelo decisions Trout
SAN ANTONIO – Saul “Canelo” Alvarez was supposed to be a heavy-footed stalker who would either grind Austin “No Doubt” Trout in the canvas...
