By Corey Erdman - Several times during his career, Gabriel Rosado has wondered out loud in the media why he hasn’t received the same opportunities as Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. For the better part of a decade, the two have been in the same weight neighbo...
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By Corey Erdman - David McWater’s Split-T Management is known as boxing’s answer to Moneyball. As a lifelong baseball fan and researcher, as well as a lover of the Sweet Science, McWater has said that he felt he could combine his passions and capital...
By Corey Erdman - From an early age, Shakur Stevenson craved competition. As the story goes, from the time he was a toddler he and his grandfather Wali Moses watched fight tapes together every morning right after breakfast. As a boxing coach, Wali wo...
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By Corey Erdman - As Devin Haney staggered back to his corner at the end of the tenth round after getting hit with a flush right hand by Jorge Linares, he was in need of guidance. For the vast majority of the first ten rounds, he had Linares all figu...
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As with any sport, boxing is at its most compelling when the two very best competitors face each other —in fighting’s case, in a particular division. Boxing is most visually and intellectually interesting when two fighters of differing approaches but...
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By Corey Erdman - When people discuss the problems with modern boxing matchmaking, the most common complaint is that the best fighters aren’t matched up against one another as regularly as they should be. In the current boxing landscape both prom...
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Billy Joe Saunders spent the better portion of the week leading up to his bout with Canelo Alvarez doing everything he possibly could to pester his opponent. Days before the fight, Saunders insisted he was prepared to bow out of the contest if the si...
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By Corey Erdman - Sometime around 2006 or 2007, Chris Arreola recalls, he shared the ring with Andy Ruiz for the first time. Arreola was a heavyweight prospect on the rise, knocking out opponents on California club shows, on the verge of his big brea...
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By Corey Erdman - When the bell rang to signify the end of the first round of a fight for the first time in his career, Edgar Berlanga walked back to his corner gesturing downwards with his hands towards the crowd, telling them to remain calm. Berlan...
By Corey Erdman - Boxing has always had one foot in carnival culture, but Triller’s weekend offering of Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren had both feet in the circus tent, squared up with nearly every convention the sport has. Triller, a video-sharing platfor...
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By Corey Erdman - After Jaron Ennis both hoisted Sergey Lipinets off his feet with a left uppercut and left him prone on the canvas to end their fight, Ennis calmly walked back to his corner. As the referee ended the fight officially with Lipinets cl...
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By Corey Erdman - If ever there was a fighter who deserved a better ending than they got, it was Carl Frampton. Deserve is a tricky word within boxing, a sport which can present as a meritocracy but in actuality is controlled by the whimsies of a sel...
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By Corey Erdman - Dillian Whyte and Alexander Povetkin were scheduled to fight one another for the second time on Saturday night, but judging by their ring walks, you would have thought they were walking into totally different events. When Whyte came...
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By Corey Erdman - It took a little while for Artur Beterbiev to get going on Saturday night. Even before he stepped foot in the ring. The event he headlined against Adam Deines in his first defense of unified light heavyweight titles at the Megasport...
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By Corey Erdman - When Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman Gonzalez fought for the first time in 2012, the boxing industry and the streaming media world were a whole lot different than they are today. That year, the Olympics streamed on YouTube for the...
