Canelo-gram: Canelo sends message to Mayweather that he’s a star in his own right
Opponents are like employees to Floyd Mayweather Jr. He talks as if he hires and fires them in his role as boxer, promoter,...
Icy catharsis: “A fight is a fight”
DALLAS – While the aficionados who peruse this column were dutifully enduring a first collaboration of Mayweather Promotions and Showtime, Saturday, one that worked...
Money or History: Mayweather’s Showtime deal will define him
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s jump Tuesday from HBO to Showtime and parent network CBS is a move that will reveal whether he’s more about money...
REDKACH BLITZES ANOTHER FOE
Ivan Redkach, of Los Angeles, improved to 14-0, 12 KOs, scoring a KO at 2:06 of the very first round against Sergio Rivera,...
Here’s The Problem
This is how Saturday ended after Adrien “The Problem” Broner defeated Gavin Rees by corner stoppage in the fifth round.
Max Kellerman: “You beat the...
Broner stops Rees in Five
At the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ Golden Boy Promotions alongside R&R Promotions featured boxing’s best young talent take another step towards...
Camera Clause: Mora will fight Jesus Gonzales, but only on TV
Los Angeles middleweight Sergio Mora has agreed to fight Jesus Gonzales on April 19 in Phoenix, Gonzales’ hometown, but only if the bout is...
Prodigy and mastery in a postmodern world
HOUSTON – At this city’s Museum of Fine Arts is a historic exhibition called “Portrait of Spain” that is historic, in part, because of...
Life as art: Tyson’s best role is himself in Law & Order: SVU
Makeup hid the facial tattoo, but there’s no disguise for Mike Tyson.
Never will be.
Tyson’s guest appearance Wednesday night...
Quiet time
On a bench beside the black metal steps to an elevated ring sits a semitransparent and well-gnawed gumshield with a lemon-yellow frontispiece and several...
Felix decisions Robles
Jose Felix scored a ten round unanimous decision over Gerardo Robles in a Lightweight bout in McAllen, Texas
Felix controlled the fight with the exception...
PED: Performance Enhancing Dangers for a sport that already has too many
Yuriorkis Gamboa’s name in a Miami New Times story this week about an anti-aging clinic that allegedly supplied performance enhancers isn’t exactly a surprise....
Post-abstract realism: Fernando Botero and Lucas Matthysse
The opening minute of Saturday’s main event on Showtime, Argentine junior welterweight titlist Lucas Matthysse versus American Mike Dallas, showed such a disparity of...
Matthysse hammers Dallas in One
Lucas Matthysse made a big statement in calling for a fight with the winner of Danny Garcia and Zab Juah as he scored a...
The Good Fight: Jacobs beats cancer, calls out bullies and obesity
Billy Lyell might have a better chance than bullies and obesity.
Danny Jacobs will fight them all in an ongoing battle that...
Rosa defeats Wilson at Broadway Boxing
It was another night of Dibella Entertainment’s Broadway Boxing in New York City. Tonight’s venue was the B. B. King Blues Club in...
Salido – Garcia Photo Gallery
15rounds.com Claudia Bocanegra captured the images of last Saturday night's championship tripleheader that saw great wins by Mikey Garcia and Gennady Golovkin as well...
Garcia and Golovkin: The mysteries continue
We came to the moment for which we assembled, Saturday, the telling collection of intervals, two predecessors succeeded by the aptly named championship rounds,...
Garcia wins Featherweight crown with technical decision over Salido
The Theater at Madison Square Garden played host to three of boxing’s most anticipated fights as Top Rank in association with K2 Promotions showcased...
Kovalev destroys Campillo in three
If you haven’t heard of Sergey Kovalev you’re not alone. Until tonight not many have. But after an emphatic stoppage win over a top...
Arum’s old words say it all for days defined by Armstrong and Te’o
First, Lance Armstrong. Now, Manti Te'o.
The hoax is in, or at least it has become America's favorite pastime.
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Golovkin and Garcia, showcases and trial horses
The June day Manny Pacquiao lost to Timothy Bradley began with a media breakfast in the airy, open interior of Wolfgang Puck Bar and...
Jr. Welterweight Johan Perez narrowly gets by Stevie Forbes in Sunrise.
The first installment of Golden Boy’s Boxing Series at the BB&T Center in Sunrise FL showcased Johan “El Terrible” Perez 16- 1-1, 12 KOs...
Name Game: Broner plans to beat them without knowing them
Adrien Broner calls himself The Problem. He had one Thursday. He couldn’t remember his opponent’s name. Or, at least, he chose not to, perhaps...
Reading Burke, thinking about Martinez-Chavez
“The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of...
Rances Barthelemy steals a decision win over Arash Usmanee; Jonathan Gonzalez outboxes Pooh Ennis
A very controversial decision capped an exciting 12-round elimination bout for the IBF’s #2 position at super featherweight between Miami-based Cuban Rances “Kid Blast”...
New Year, new hopes start with Golovkin-Rosado
An encore of a year loaded with explosive signs of renewal might be a tall order, but chances of one in 2013...
Portrait of 2012’s most excellent week, part 2
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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The moment Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez took Filipino Manny Pacquiao’s consciousness with a right cross on Dec....
Portrait of 2012’s most excellent week, part 1
The moment Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez took Filipino Manny Pacquiao’s consciousness with a right cross on Dec. 8 brought a series of instants affecting...
Thirteen things to look for in 2013
A New Year begins like the old year. Slowly. But every year between the ropes offers surprises that in 2012 created late momentum...
