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...
FOLLOW CANELO – TROUT LIVE!!
Follow all the action as Canelo Alvarez meets Austin Trout in a WBA/WBC Super Welterweight unification bou from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas
12...
Fury Stops Cunningham in 7
Madison Square Garden in the heart of New York City hosted a thrilling heavyweight match-up put together by Main Events in association with Hennessy...
Mayweather-Guerrero: A fight for grown-ups
LAS VEGAS –Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Robert Guerrero played a lot of roles on back-to-back days facing small mobs armed with cameras, cell phones,...
Canelo (-Trout), and (Natalie) Merchant, and grace
FORT WORTH, Texas – The hardest part about this thing we do is not, as novelist Philip Roth once put it, that everything must...
Rigondeaux defeats Donaire at Radio City Music Hall
NEW YORK--Guillermo Rigondeaux boxed his way to a twelve round unanimous decision over 2012 Fighter of the Year Nonito
Donaire to win the WBO...
Jackie Robinson’s story is incomplete without a Jack Johnson pardon
Release this weekend of the film 42, Jackie Robinson’s story, is just another reason to wonder why Jack Johnson hasn’t been pardoned.
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Shiming makes successful debut in China
Chinese Olympic hero Zou Shiming made a successful pro debut with a four round unanimous decision over Eleazar Valenzuela at the Venetian Hotel in...
From Carbajal to Zou Shiming: Light on the scale, heavy on history
Bob Arum is relying on a little guy, Zou Shiming, this weekend in Macau where money beckons and China’s untapped market awaits. It’s bold....
Foreman decisions King at Broadway Boxing
NEW YORK--Former world Super Welterweight champion Yuri Foreman scored a six round unanimous decision over Gundrick King that highlighted a ten bout card at...
