The Mares and Garcia composition
Taken in composite, Mexican Abner Mares and American Mikey Garcia make a quite compelling fighter, and despite competing networks and the promoters that milk...
Mares scores unanimous decision and asks for Donaire all over again
LOS ANGELES – It was one fight full of many styles. From slick to awkward and lots of good, bad and unlikely in...
Elusive tasks: Mares faces Moreno amid talk about Donaire
A sure sign of Abner Mares’ emerging stardom is a mixed blessing. Mares is one of those fighters mentioned in a bout that hasn’t...
Steward’s genius still alive for Wladimir Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko’s best friend won’t be there. Emanuel Steward is gone. But Steward’s genius is still around. It never dies.
In...
Four more years: Consequence vs. eventfulness
This will not be a political piece by any means other than its acknowledgement of what tomorrow, known in these United States as the...
Freedom fits Angulo like an old pair of shoes
There are all kinds of symbols on the road to freedom. Some are as grand as the Statue of Liberty. Some are as...
Juarez reminds; Leija recalls
SAN ANTONIO – Three miles east of the Alamodome stands Freeman Coliseum in the southwestern part of an enormous lot it shares with AT&T...
Alamo City beat down: Juarez stops Escalante
SAN ANTONIO – Whenever a boxing match can be reduced to a good athlete versus a good fighter, one is advised to bet the...
Abregu shocks Dulorme in seven
Luis Carlos Abregu scored a mild upset when he stopped previously undefeated super prospect Thomas Dulorme by scoring a seventh round stoppage in a...
Emanuel Steward: He’s gone, but his voice will always be in somebody’s corner
There’s an empty corner in boxing’s battered soul today. There’s always a couple. But none looks quite so large and profoundly sad as the...
Monaghan decisions Saunders
NEW YORK--- Dibella Entertainment provided a great opportunity for some of New York City's brightest boxing up and comers Wednesday night at the Roseland...
Erik Morales’ Terrible goodbye
This is not a grateful farewell to Erik Morales. That column happened six years ago, when it was still merited. This, rather,...
Garcia trashes Morales in four
BROOKLYN, NY--There was a a lot of doubt weather the fight would go on as scheduled but Danny Garcia left no doubt by scoring...
SHOWTIME–BARCLAYS SHOW PREVIEW
We already covered tonight’s Garcia vs. Morales main event. Now on Showtime, it is the main event, but in the Barclays Center there...
Holyfield celebrates a birthday and a place on one list of all-time heavyweights
Happy Birthday, Evander Holyfield.
A couple of lifetimes have been jammed into your half-century of heavyweight titles, improbable comebacks, surprises and...
The right way
Here’s what happened Saturday. An excellent junior welterweight prizefight scheduled for 10 rounds ended in the seventh. The busier and more effective...
Donaire stops Nishioka, but can’t stop the boos
CARSON, Calif. – Surgery isn’t pretty. But sometimes it’s necessary.
It was Saturday night for Nonito Donaire in a well-crafted,...
FOLLOW DONAIRE – NISHIOKA; ALVARADO – RIOS LIVE
Follow all the action as Super Bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire defends against Toshiaki Nishioka. In the much anticipated cofeature, Brandon Rios and Mike...
Growing Up: Benavidez gets serious by getting rid of an expensive toy.
CARSON, Calif. – If maturity is measured in knowing what to keep and what to shed, there is some good news in Jose Benavidez...
Donaire finished with experiments and ready to re-empower himself
Boxing’s equivalent of lighting in a bottle was captured by Nonito Donaire nearly two years ago when he knocked out accomplished...
Malignaggi & Jacobs massive workout Photo Gallery
Claudia Bocanegra was back and proved she hasnt missed a beat when she took the vivid images of Tuesday's Media workout at Gleason's Gym...
Alvarado-Rios: Redeem yourselves, rid us of pestilence, make a masterpiece
DALLAS – Four miles north of this city’s Main Street District, on Southern Methodist University’s beautiful campus, stands Meadows Museum – a collection of...
Rios looks at Alvarado and sees a chance at a Ward-Gatti remake
The nickname is Bam Bam. Bold and Bolder might be more appropriate for Brandon Rios, who isn’t afraid of promises or punishment.
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Vincent Valdez, and boxing as metaphor
SAN ANTONIO – Five miles northwest of the Alamo stands a remarkable edifice and concept known colloquially as “The McNay,” Texas’ first museum of...
Talk of Pacquiao-Mayweather doesn’t matter if the old Manny doesn’t show up against Marquez
Talk about Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. is back like a bad hangover. Everybody seems to have an interpretation, if not a prediction, in the...
And still . . .
The best writing in Thomas Hauser’s new collection, “And the New . . .” (The University of Arkansas Press; $24.95), barely treats boxing at...
Terrible Ending Robs Mendez of Possible Glory
WOODLAND, CALIFORNIA – In a good scrap that he was leading, Paul Mendez unfortunately robbed himself of praise that he likely would have attained...
It’s time for Chavez Jr. to test positive for some maturity
Is anybody surprised that Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., tested positive for marijuana?
Didn’t think so.
News of the test in the...
Pacquiao – Marquez press conference report
New York – Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez took to New York City as part of their three city tour to announce their...
Momento de Maravilla
LAS VEGAS – Only prizefighting, among all sports, is able to induce a vicarious sensation so near to personal tragedy one’s mind, in a...
