(Photo: Fight Camp 360, Showtime) That’s quite a “scratch” on Andre Ward’s eye, Carl Froch. it’s the kind that would make the average boxer realize why a fight might need to be postponed to Dec. 17, per a news release, which is when the finale of Showtime’s super middleweight tournament has been rescheduled. It’s especially […]

Could it be six years ago already? Six years since Bernard Hopkins turned in what many saw as half a performance against Jermain Taylor in their first bout to lose to the young Arkansan upstart and end his reign as the longest defending middleweight champion in the history of the sport? The fingers clacking on […]

If pound-for-pound lists are pointless exercises in intellectual wankery, as the current fashion in some boxing writing circles holds, then all-time ratings must be some kind of grand circle jerk. You could see both as a kind of intellectual game and interesting debate point, but what’s the fun in that? With that in mind, I […]

(Gary Sykes, left; Gary Buckland, right) SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND — Gary Sykes’s pre-fight mantra had been that “lightning wouldn’t strike twice” in his rematch with Gary Buckland, yet it was the thunder clap from the first blast which cost him his British junior lightweight crown after a pulsating rematch at the Steel City’s Ponds Forge Arena. […]

Rarely in life are we afforded the chance to revisit and then rewrite our greatest regrets. Dewsbury dynamo Gary Sykes is presented with just such an opportunity at the Ponds Forge Arena in Sheffield on Saturday evening, when he reunites with the man who knocked him senseless a little shy of a year ago. An […]

It’s a cynical world, the boxing world, where no matter how much evidence or reason there is to believe something, people go out of their way to believe the exact opposite. So when news broke that super middleweight Andre Ward had been cut in sparring and would be postponing his Super Six finale showdown with […]

Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed in Georgia today, having been convicted with shoddy evidence and witnesses who recanted. Last night, coincidentally, I went to see the film “Black Power Mix Tapes” at the International Film Center in New York. It is also ironic since a sports marketing firm was papering the house on […]

How could you blame him? How could you not blame him? You are left with a sense of being greatly unfulfilled, unsatisfied, frustrated. Yet who could deny they hadn’t seen something unforgettable — a spectacle, even entertaining, if perversely? Those were the thoughts that filled one’s mind in the aftermath of Mayweather’s sucker punch sandbagging […]

America has a funny attitude toward its athletes and whether they ought to “win at all costs.” (For all I know, so do other countries. I just haven’t studied them as closely.) Take Michael Jordan. In his long list of game-winning buckets, none might be more etched into our memories than the last one of […]