By Corey Erdman - When Anthony Joshua fought Wladimir Klitschko back in 2017, I knew it was as good a chance as any to introduce new people to the sport. I couldn’t be certain of how exciting or competitive the fight would be, which turned into the F...
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By Corey Erdman - Tony Yoka wore quite a few emotions on his sleeve as he walked to the ring to face Petar Milas on Friday night. As the laser and light show lit up Roland Garros and a mashup of EDM music hyped up the crowd before his usual ring walk...
By Corey Erdman - Katie Taylor’s home sits atop a hill in Vernon, Connecticut, a metaphor for where she generally ranks amongst women’s fighters, pound-for-pound. There isn’t much to distract Taylor from boxing in Vernon. It’s a town of less than 30,...
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Jennifer Han can’t sit still. Not just because the biggest fight of her life against Katie Taylor is a week away, but because as a mother of two young children, that’s not a reality for her at the moment. As Han paces around her backyard in El Paso,...
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By Corey Erdman - For over two decades, Manny Pacquiao has been the measuring stick for any fighter in his chosen weight class. By definition, having held world titles in the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s across eight weight classes, that has been th...
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By Corey Erdman - When it was announced that Errol Spence Jr. had sustained a retinal tear and would not be able to fight Manny Pacquiao on August 21, there was a collective sense of disappointment that boxing had lost perhaps its biggest fight of th...
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After the decision was read and Andy Cruz was declared Olympic gold medalist in the lightweight division, he broke into a Michael Jackson dance routine in the middle of the ring before doing the “rock-a-baby” motion popularized by NBA star Russell We...
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Jonnie Rice found out he would be fighting Michael Coffie on national television the same way and the same time everyone else did. Rice was enlisted as a standby alternate for the scheduled bout between Coffie and Gerald Alexander, a common practice...
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By Corey Erdman - As he emerged through the curtain on Saturday wearing a bulbous Juggernaut helmet, it was apparent once again that Joe Joyce is a little different. The 35-year old heavyweight contender doesn’t fit into any existing archetype of a b...
By Corey Erdman - After fighting to a draw with Brian Castano on Saturday night in San Antonio, Jermell Charlo didn’t seem bothered in the way many fighters do after a draw. With very few exceptions, fighters believe that any fight they were involved...
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By Corey Erdman - When JoJo Diaz stepped on the scale to weigh in ahead of his bout with Javier Fortuna, he looked like a completely different person than the one who fought back in February. Earlier this year, Diaz was scheduled to defend his IBF s...
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By Corey Erdman - Chris Colbert has been a star since before he was anything other than a youngster learning the sport of boxing. As a child, Colbert had a temper, the gift of gab, and a fearlessness about fighting, a trio of attributes that netted h...
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by Corey Erdman - When Floyd Mayweather barged into Gervonta Davis’ corner after round nine of his bout against Mario Barrios and began talking over Davis’ trainer Calvin Ford, it would have been understandable to assume it was simply Mayweather’s we...
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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...
