0 comments by Andrew Ryan on 2/21/2016
Head past a scrubby little park named Paradise Gardens, past a couple of railway arches reinvented as voguish bars, past a ropey East End boozer still defying gentrification. Then, amidst the grey of a grim winter night, you see those bright red art deco letters shining out: YORK HALL. With the grand entrance, elegant staircases […]
GENERAL SANTOS, PHILIPPINES – JANUARY 28: Manny Pacquiao trains at Pedro Acharon Sports Complex on January 28, 2016 in General Santos, Philippines. Pacquiao faces Timothy Bradley in the world welterweight championship bout at the MGM Grand casino on April 9 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Jeoffrey Maitem/Getty Images)
0 comments by Tim Starks
There are a couple remarkable things about Manny Pacquiao’s recent remarks on homosexuality. His views in opposition to gay marriage were already well-known; that’s not new, and it’s not cool, nor has it ever been. No, what’s remarkable is the virulent nature of how he’s expressed those views lately, and how unrelenting he has been in […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/20/2016
We might not have seen a top prospect on ShoBox Friday night. Instead we got one nice fight among the bunch with some uneven performances, and some sordid scorecards. The most sordid scorecards came after lightweight Christopher Brooker dominated John Magda, only to suffer a draw. Brooker won clearly, even easily; he was more aggressive, […]
0 comments by Ryan Agius on 2/18/2016
NEW YORK CITY — With the blizzard that was Jonas and the day known as Valentine’s both come and gone, something else was sure to bring the fire and ice. We are in NYC after all, a city that no one, no matter how well-heeled nor how wily, could ever figure or wear out. Seems […]
NEWARK, NJ – AUGUST 14: Steve Cunningham and Antonio Tarver exchange punches during the Premier Boxing Champions Heavyweight bout at the Prudential Center on August 14, 2015 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 2/16/2016
Boxing reached a new low this week, and for once it wasn’t Roy Jones, Jr. or Floyd Mayweather leading the charge. It may seem incredible, but in a week which saw Jones offer to fight a fan for a $100,000 prize, Mayweather tour the U.K. and charge £70 for a photo and Manny Pacquiao compare […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 2/15/2016
Happy (belated) Valentine’s Day. Please take this weird as fuck billboard from Sofia, Bulgaria as a gift (via r/boxing). Nothing says “I love you” like Tyson Fury, after all. Though there are plenty of fights on the boxing schedule this week, it’s virtually all prospects and journeymen. The sole exception is Russia’s Fedor Chudinov, a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/8/2016
What? Something in boxing was FAKE? You mean that after their hilarious confrontation in the ring on HBO, Sergey Kovalev and Adonis Stevenson were hugging off camera? Shocking. Or is this what’s shocking: That trainer Freddie Roach was the one who alleged the forgery? Roach, who doesn’t even pretend that he’s not bullshitting us half the […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
It’s a really dead time for televised boxing right now; the biggest show of the week is a “Premier Boxing Champions” card headlined by lightweight prospect and 2012 Olympian Jamel Herring. That’s really it, more or less. Jamel Herring vs Luis Eduardo Flores, Tuesday, FS1/Fox Deportes, Bethlehem Pa. Herring, 30, is a former marine: expect to […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 2/2/2016
Canelo Alvarez vs Amir Khan, a fight nobody saw coming and that no fans asked for, is happening in May. Some are outraged; some are talking themselves into liking the idea of Khan, a chinny welterweight, moving up to contend for the middleweight championship of the world against a man who will be pushing toward cruiserweight […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 2/1/2016
Knockout CP Freshmart has the best name in boxing! And his poster looks like the loading screen for a ’90s fighting game. What’s not to like? (Apart from the fact that there’s not much boxing on this week). Randy Caballero vs. Ruben Garcia, Friday, Estrella TV/RingTV.com, Indio Calif. Caballero returns to the ring against the unspectacular […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano on 1/31/2016
There has always been something sinister about light heavyweight knockout artist Sergey Kovalev, just like there has always been a language impediment when it comes to understanding him. Whereas another knockout king, Kazakhstan’s Gennady Golovkin, has always maintained an affable, happy-go-lucky demeanor outside the ring before turning into a full-on beast inside of it, Kovalev’s […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
That wasn’t a rematch we needed, Sergey Kovalev vs Jean Pascal II, and Saturday night confirmed it. On HBO, the two light heavyweights rumbled again, and just like the first time, Kovalev massacred Pascal, who had only moments of effectiveness. Someone should’ve stopped it long ago, before it ever happened, and once it actually began […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 1/29/2016
What in the living fu-. How is welterweight Danny Garcia regularly doing some of the best ratings that the “Premier Boxing Champions” series ever has done, even against Robert Guerrero in a match-up that not many people viewed as particularly competitive? I guess people like unconventional hairlines, cuz LeBron James is popular, too. It’s almost as […]
LAS VEGAS, NV – SEPTEMBER 15: Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. awaits the fight decision in the corner of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. after the fight against Sergio Martinez for their WBC middleweight title fight at the Thomas & Mack Center on September 15, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Getty Images)
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/28/2016
In a saga worthy of a telenovela, Mexico’s greatest-ever boxer has spent the last week denying allegations that he has laundered money for drug traffickers. “The boxer Julio Cesar Chavez was friend of, and alleged money launderer for, organised crime groups in Sinaloa,” wrote columnist Ricardo Alemán in El Universal on January 20. Alemán alleged that Chavez, 53, was […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano
There are always going to be pointless rematches in boxing. Hell, in a couple of months, Manny Pacquiao will fight Tim Bradley for a completely superfluous third time, even though one could make a strong argument that even the second fight was unnecessary. Yes, technically Pacquiao lost the first fight. But anyone besides the judges […]
