0 comments by Matthew Swain on 1/17/2015
http://gty.im/461654144 Any match between a fighter on the way up and one on the way down is a crossroads bout. Sometimes you get a collision and sometimes they seem to pass each other by because the fighter on his way down really is on his way out. It’s hard to know which it will be until after […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 1/12/2015
Far be it from me to accuse heavyweight Deontay Wilder of having too high an opinion of himself. I’m just going to leave this picture of him driving a car with a picture of himself on the outside (while also singing a song about himself) here and you can draw your own conclusions (thanks to […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 8/13/2014
In the week that a futuristic (and potentially worrisome) new version of boxing debuts in Nevada, I figured I’d give you a flashback to how things used to be with this excellent snap of sailors watching a boxing match aboard the USS Oregon in 1897. Apart from the aforementioned Big Knockout Boxing card on pay-per-view, […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 7/20/2014
Boxing, like most combat sports, hardly qualifies for the second part of that descriptor. It’s violence with a thin veil of organisation. So it might sound funny that, as a boxing writer, I found the press release for “Big Knockout Boxing” disturbing. In case you haven’t been paying attention to the latest developments in futuristic […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 7/17/2014
Old timey people were very much into animals boxing. There’s some appeal there, to be sure. (via) We’re heading toward the summer doldrums, which means not a lot of fights are being signed. A decent number are being discussed, though, and that’s good enough for Round And Round. Among the men discussed in this edition […]
