Even if you’ve been a fight fan most of your life, and even if you try to educate yourself when it comes to guys far before your time that you’d never know or care about unless you were a fight fan, you’re bound to encounter a few great scraps that you didn’t know existed or […]

The phrase “boxing hotbed” is one of those fight terms that gets thrown about with ease whether the user truly understands its meaning or not — like “shot,” “exposed” and “ring generalship.” There aren’t many boxing hotbeds around right now, be it for lack of overall interest in the sport, or maybe even times just […]

As the mismanagement of boxing by those with say-so continues, its infrastructure a convoluted pile, the average fan’s need for clarity remains an important factor in allowing sanity and boxing fanaticism to occupy the same gray matter. It doesn’t take a fight game veteran to recognize which styles should be matched together. But absent aesthetically […]

There’s Philadelphia, the historic “City of Brotherly Love,” and then there’s boxing’s Philadelphia — the city with an unquestionable penchant for producing the type of fighters that laugh off blood and smirk at guts. The industrial apathy of early 20th century Pennsylvania gifted the boxing world with one of the original “Philly fighters,” Tommy Loughran. […]

The words “dirty” and “crafty” are often interchangeable in this great sport. One might be less likely to decry the not-so-sweet portion of the sweet science if brought up, for example, in a town like Gary, Indiana — a town created from the flattened remnants of sand dunes for the specific purpose of building steel […]

It’s not as if boxing hasn’t had its share of male models, singers and handsome faces, but you wouldn’t generally expect a sport where guys wind up getting more facial cosmetic surgery than Joan Rivers to highlight a bunch of lookers. Cheekbones get shattered, noses wind up cartilage-free, scar tissue where cuts chronically open up […]