Super middleweight champion Andre Ward, decried by many as a mauler and a billy-goat headbutter, doesn’t float everyone’s boat. But if you don’t like the way he fights, then you don’t have to watch him on Saturday on HBO. Personally, his very existence doesn’t offend me like it seems to a lot of people. There […]

(Juan Manuel Marquez and his son, who is noticeably NOT Mikey Garcia; photo credit: Chris Farina/Top Rank) A little hyperbole never hurt anyone. Unless it was hyperbole like, “Yeah, just take that fight with Mikey Garcia. All he does is jab.” Or, “All you have to do to beat Nonito Donaire is fight weird.” That […]

(Nonito Donaire punches Vic Darchinyan; credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) Mikey Garcia tasted the canvas Saturday night on HBO. So did Demetrius Andrade. And Nonito Donaire was losing his rematch with Vic Darchinyan through eight rounds. But all three gathered themselves for wins that meant something, yet also demonstrated the limitations of each man. MIKEY […]

Sometimes more is better. That's what Showtime has been thinking this year with multi-fight cards where the individual bouts are of questionable entertainment value, and that's what HBO seems to be thinking about this Saturday with its tripleheader. The junior middleweight clash between Vanes Martirosyan and Demetrius Andrade is unlikely to produce anything like enjoyable […]

  (New York, NY, USA; Magomed Abdusalamov [left] and Mike Perez [right] box during their heavyweight bout at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Perez won via unanimous decision. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) Heavyweight boxer Magomed Abdusalamov is in an induced coma from which he may never wake up. He was taken to hospital […]

The little boxers of the sport around 108 and 112 are on a superb run of fights the last year or two.  Brian Viloria over Giovani Segura and Hernan Marquez; Roman Gonzalez over Juan Francisco Estrada; Estrada over Viloria; Segura over Marquez; and who knows where it ends? Segura-Marquez was a typically high-level slugfest with […]

(Scientists don’t know what happened to the above house, but they’re 79 percent sure Gennady Golovkin happened to the above house; via) Trash talk coffins can’t contain him. Dynamite cannot destroy him. He picks Chuck Norris out of his teeth with a machete, and that’s to make room for more 1980s action stars. Gennady Golovkin […]

Some scribes and fans (I'm serious, there are quite a few of them) falsely equate pound-for-pound excellence with a lack of excitement. I look at the man above, light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, having joined this particular list of the best boxers in the world regardless of weight division as but one of many indicators […]

(New York, NY, USA; Gennady Golovkin [silver trunks] and Curtis Stevens [brown trunks] box during their middleweight  bout at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Golovkin won after the fight was stopped after the 8th round. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) One view coming into Gennady Golovkin-Curtis Stevens Saturday night on HBO, probably not the […]

Whether it’s Russian roulette or an old-fashioned drinking contest, play any game where the central element is powerful shots and sooner or later, someone’s going down. Saturday’s showdown on HBO between middleweight knockout artists Gennady Golovkin and Curtis Stevens is far closer to the Russian roulette end of scale, which is to say that the […]

Two talented, yet largely unproven former U.S. Olympians look to hit it big, both with their fists, and subsequently, with a fight of greater magnitude when Vanes Martirosyan and Demetrius Andrade face off on the Nov. 9 HBO Boxing After Dark tripleheader. For their efforts, the winner will receive the vacant 154 pound WBO title; […]

Knockout artists Gennady Golovkin and Curtis Stevens collide in New York Saturday, and so what better time to revisit our annual showcase of boxing’s hardest punchers? The following ratings compile the finest knockout-to-fight percentages in the sport (all fighters must be top-10 world rated by the Transnational Boxing Ratings Board in order to qualify). 1. […]

(credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) LOS ANGELES – For the last six years, whether Vic Darchinyan was enjoying his dominant reign as a two-division kingpin or tallying a handful of losses when he moved up for more belts, only one man has remained his nemesis. That man is the owner of a thunderous counter left […]

(Jimmy Britt, left, poses with Joe Gans prior to their first bout; via) As air chills and begins to bite, year after year, the boxing “season” tends to heat up. Whatever the reason, the last part of the calendar year tends to be kind to boxing fans. Below are examples of that, and fights that […]