The wait to figure out who Floyd Mayweather will beat next is over, and the choice, announced Monday, is Marcos Maidana. It was always down to two men, Maidana and Amir Khan, and an impatient, overeager, petulant Khan deliberately removed himself from the competition last week, declaring, laughably, that Mayweather was scared — a failed […]

(Hank Lundy drops Angelo Santana; photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Bless Hank Lundy's arrogant, stubborn soul. He doesn't need to trade punches like he does and really ought not to, based on that knockout loss to John Molina, yet he does it anyhow. Far from perfect, he's just good enough to hang with superior fighters […]

For a tournament of mostly unknowns, you couldn't ask for much better entertainment value than what the men in ESPN2's Boxcino 2014 tournament gave us on Friday Night Fights. The entertainment value was derived from the format, which featured six round bouts to start, and/or the nature of the fighters themselves: They all had plenty […]

Men everywhere except two, no matter how successful, are essentially dissatisfied with themselves. Only the President of the United States and Boxing’s Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World get to go to bed each night knowing that they’re not underachievers. All other men walk the earth somewhat of a disappointment to themselves. You can see […]

(Sena Agbeko, left, sparring with Michael Moore; credit: Morgan Hines) Ike Quartey. Joseph Agbeko. Josh Clottey. Azumah Nelson. The list of boxing greats to come out of Ghana is impressive, especially considering the sub-Saharan country’s modest population of 25 million. But before refamiliarizing yourself with this list, pencil in one more name: Sena Agbeko. The […]

(Sam McVey; via) Around the dawn of the twentieth century, it wasn’t at all uncommon for top black fighters to have fought each other a dozen or more times. Having been shut out of the title picture in various divisions time and again. Gimmicks were sometimes necessary to sell the fights, and when it came […]

(Vasyl Lomachenko, left, Orlando Salido, right) If boxing in 2014 is yet to herald anything, perhaps it’s an enhanced appreciation of the greatness of the preceding year. The paucity of this month’s schedule, when allied to the underwhelming bouts scattered with a listless promotional hand throughout January, has produced a scenario in which the sport’s […]

What the hell was that? Fox Sports 1, which hosts the worst boxing program on television by a galaxy or two, delivered an evenly-matched main event Monday night with some late drama. Manuel Avila, the 21-year-old junior featherweight prospect, won a bout where the outcome was unclear until the 10th and final round, when he […]

Hope you all had a nice multi-holiday long weekend, from a romantic Valentine's Day to an, um, wooden-teethed, top-hatted President's Day? Main Events put together some corny-ass Valentine's Day cards for a number of its fighters, which was a great promotional gag. Check them all out on Twitter @Main_Events, but of course light heavyweight Sergey […]

(Lack of substantial action in boxing has left a crater in our lives; via) A dearth of high end boxing is like a full moon to fans, in that in brings out some sort of weird instinctual drama detector. We’ll find other ways to entertain ourselves, and sometimes it’s just not pretty. Luckily, Benjamin Franklin […]

Junior welterweight, masters in nutrition holder and possible future physician Chris Algieri (at left) earned a wide points decision over Emmanuel “Tranzformer” Taylor in the main event of ESPN’s Friday Night Fights card from the Paramount Theatre in Huntington, N.Y. Algieri (19-0 8 KOs) got the nod by scores of 98-92 and 97-93 twice.  I […]