Gallons of lamp kerosene have been sizzled during many a late night in futile attempts to pinpoint why exactly boxers fight. Perhaps a fighter was born into a “fighting family,” like being born a Spinks, a Mayweather, or even a Judah. Or maybe having no other option, and being forced to enter a field of […]

Gallagher of Manchester had his best Saturday night since Liam and Noel reached an apogee at Knebwoth on August 10, 1996. Unrelated namesake Joe, trainer of Anthony Crolla, Paul Smith and Scott Quigg, scored a hat trick of wins at the Bolton Arena – just five miles apart from the gym they’d been germinated. Crolla […]

(Mashantucket, CT, USA; Junior middleweights Gennady Golovkin [blue trunks] and Matthew Macklin [green trunks] box during their middleweight bout at Foxwoods Resort and Casino-MGM Grand Theatre. Golovkin won via third round knockout. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) Matthew Macklin deserved the win over Felix Sturm. Matthew Macklin might have beaten middleweight champion Sergio Martinez on […]

No frills — just some fights in the works, one involving the man above, some others involving the guys in the headline and some others involving some other dudes too. Golden Boy Promotions has some ideas for Adrien Broner's next fight — Amir Khan, Devon Alexander, Victor Ortiz, Robert Guerrero. Those four welterweights are in […]

Oh, how hard it can be to discern accurate info from the boxing media. You can get sucked into a quicksand quagmire, no smarter than before you read any given article based on incomplete information or agendas. Sometimes even when the boxing media is operating at its peak, the information is still hard to come […]

Frankie Gavin had too much craft and ability for Denton Vassell at Liverpool’s Olympia on Friday. In a showdown between unbeaten welterweights, the skilful Brummie, who seemingly wouldn’t say boo to a goose, stuffed Vassell with all of the trimmings. Using deft footwork and intuitive counter-punching, Gavin outmaneuvered his burly foe for six rounds — […]

(From left: Scott Quigg, Paul Smith, Anthony Crolla, promoter Eddie Hearn, Gavin Rees, Tony Dodson) Lightweight has proven a tough beat on the home front over recent years. Men such as Ricky Burns, Kevin Mitchell, John Murray, Derry Mathews, Anthony Crolla and Gavin Rees — a melange of stylists and thorny operators — have all […]

There is little of Adrien Broner in Gennady Golovkin, and vice versa. Where Broner is loquatious, oversharing, crass and jewel-bedecked, Golovkin barely speaks English to avoid being mocked, doesn't trash-talk or fess up to anything he doesn't have to and has been dubbed in one headline "The Working Man's Champion." Perhaps they share fight-ending power, […]

(Ken Buchanan, on his knees, as Roberto Duran walks away; via) The anniversary of one of the most controversial fights in the history of boxing falls this week. It was on June 26, 1972 that a young and hungry Panamanian by the name of Roberto Duran faced Scotland’s world lightweight champion Ken Buchanan at Madison […]

I don’t know what’s funnier, a multi-way venn diagram of bro-dom, or the fact that a guy called Zoltan Kiss, Jr. is fighting in Namibia on Saturday. Surely Zoltan is a huge bro. I bet he’s wearing a sideways visor right now. As for the non-Namibian boxing schedule, there’s a fair bit going down this […]

(Paulie Malignaggi, left, chews on a right hand, courtesy of Adrien Broner; Photo credit: Ed Mulholland/USA Today) It finally happened. The brush gag got outright booed and hissed. Adrien Broner may have used up a chunk of his goodwill in lollygagging past Paulie Malignaggi in a main event to win a welterweight strap. It didn’t […]

(Jun 22, 2013; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Adrien Broner [Gold trunks] and Paulie Malignaggi [White trunks] stare at each other at the final bell of their 12-round welterweight bout at the Barclay’s Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports) Adrien Broner beat Paulie Malignaggi in Brooklyn on Saturday in a closer than expected welterweight fight that […]

When last we saw Rances Barthelemy on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights, he was keeping his perfect record via a judges' decision with which few agreed. This time out, he landed a nearly perfect shot with a right uppercut to the solar plexus of Fahsai Sakkreerin in the 2nd round; no judges necessary after that. Barthelemy […]