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By Corey Erdman - ARLINGTON, TX—Jose Ramirez and Maurice Hooker gave boxing fans everything they could have asked for on Saturday night: a title unification bout between two champions on opposite sides of boxing’s network and promotional divide, a toe-to-toe slugfest with ebb and flow, a conclusive ending...
By Corey Erdman - A lot has changed in the world of boxing since Manny Pacquiao entered the public’s consciousness back in 1998 when he captured the WBC flyweight title from Chatchai Sasakul. Not a single one of The Ring Magazine’s Top 10 pound for pound fighters at the end of that year are still active. Seven of th...
By Corey Erdman - PROVIDENCE, RI—In boxing, we tend to characterize fighters in the image of their place of origin. Mexican fighters are industrious and brave, Philadelphia fighters are brazen and tough, Russian fighters are cold and stoic, British fighters are studious and classy, and so on. If we were to play this tired g...
By Corey Erdman - On Saturday night in Las Vegas, Tyson Fury dominated Tom Schwarz the way a 30-1 favorite would be expected to. Based on rough calculations, a 30-1 favorite is assumed to have a 96.1% chance of winning the contest. Inside the ring, Fury behaved like someone overwhelmingly better than his op...
By Corey Erdman - When Frank Sinatra sang “if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere” in reference to New York, it became an instant slogan for the city. In one line it summed up both the city’s impression of itself, and the unforgiving nature of it that the residents cultivate. Making it in New York City isn’t a g...
By Corey Erdman - Knockout punches are the ultimate eraser. They can erase errors made in the ring. They can make up for up to eleven rounds lost in the course of the fight. And they can wipe out any amount of criticism from the general public in one concussive instant. Deontay Wilder didn’t have the greatest week in t...
By Corey Erdman - LAS VEGAS, NV—When Floyd Mayweather defeated Canelo Alvarez in 2013, it seemed for a moment that the throne Mayweather was set to relinquish as the Face of Boxing would have to be inherited by someone other than Canelo. From the moment Canelo appeared in an ep...
By Corey Erdman - In the wake of Jarrell Miller’s suspension and eventual ousting from his scheduled heavyweight title shot against Anthony Joshua, there has been plenty of shaming of fighters for either blowing or not taking chances offered to them in the sport. On five week’s notice, Miller’s slot had been offered to a...
By Corey Erdman - Last Thursday, Notre Dame Fighting Irish women’s basketball head coach Muffet McGraw held court at a press conference, fielding a few questions about her team’s upcoming games, but mostly defending her declaration that she would never hire another male coach. "I'm getting tired of th...
By Corey Erdman - Following Canelo Alvarez’s destruction of Rocky Fielding at Madison Square Garden, Oscar De La Hoya took the podium in the media area assembled in the hallways beyond the locker rooms. Typically, when Oscar, or any authority figure, steps up to the dais, reporters dutifully fall silent and point th...