(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 […]

A distasteful malevolence curled its tendrils around the promotion for this Saturday’s welterweight boxing match between Adrien Broner and Paulie Malignaggi from its onset, choking out much talk of the actual bout and choking out any appeal it might have had for people whose tolerance for boxing’s endless capacity for ugliness reached its limit. The […]

(Mikey Garcia, left, lays waste to JuanMa Lopez; Photo credit: Getty Images) Boxing fans are back into the swing of being hit with big fights left and right. True, boxing has no “season,” per se, but recent years have seen summer and autumn pump out some of the biggest events. Many of us had hoped […]

Habitually mined as broadcasting gold, vulgarity is a modern commodity. Well-placed in order to capitalise, boxing promotion has foregone decency for the sake of a fast buck. Nielsen ratings have taken priority over ticket sales for the sport’s top earners – however they might be achieved. As a result, successful prizefighting is no longer about […]

(Gennady Golovkin, left, Matthew Macklin, right; photo credit: GeoIMAGEZ) When Max Kellerman stated during Saturday night’s HBO broadcast of Mikey Garcia vs. Juan Manuel Lopez that his top-ranked lightweight fighter in the world was none other than Terence Crawford, it set more than a few eyebrows into vertical motion. The man he was praising, after […]

(Mikey Garcia drops Juan Manuel Lopez; photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) Any hopes that Juan Manuel Lopez would have half a chance Saturday night on HBO because Mikey Garcia struggled and failed to make the featherweight limit got cut down to zero after the very 1st round, the only competitive round of the fight. […]