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By Corey Erdman - VERONA, NY—Most fighters are schooled in communicating the fact that they’re confident, but few exude it effortlessly the way Dmitry Bivol does. Walking around the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY the day before his WBA light heavyweight title defense against Joe Smith, Bivol ha...
By Corey Erdman - Boxing analyst Max Kellerman once said: "If you walk down a street and see a man putting a golf ball on one corner, two guys shooting hoops on another corner, a couple of guys playing stickball on a third corner and two guys in a fistfight on the fourth corner, where do you expect to see the c...
By Corey Erdman - On Saturday night, Andrew Cancio finally found his gold in the desert, two years after resigning to the idea that boxing wasn’t for him anymore. More than anything, he found the version of himself he always wished he could become. Cancio knocked out WBA super featherweight titlist Alberto Mac...
By Corey Erdman - Jaime Munguia’s victory over Takeshi Inoue on Saturday night in Houston was precisely the kind of fight that would have resulted in an upset loss for a lesser fighter. In Inoue, he found a challenger built like an Olympic weightlifter, with the motor of a middle distance runner and the punching techniq...
By Corey Erdman - At Manny Pacquiao’s open media workout at Wild Card gym, the future Hall of Famer politely announced that he would not be answering any questions regarding a possible rematch with Floyd Mayweather, both out of respect for his next opponent Adrien Broner, and because there wa...
By Corey Erdman - The fact that David Lemieux was being positioned as the next challenger for Canelo Alvarez is somewhere between a thinly veiled secret and public knowledge. Nobody explicitly said that the winner of the ill-fated David Lemieux-Tureano Johnson clash was contracted to face the winner of Canelo...
By Corey Erdman - NEW YORK, NY—Walking up Seventh Avenue in Manhattan on Saturday night, Madison Square Garden glowed a bright red, green and yellow, blending in perfectly with the city’s garland and holly-dripped Holiday paradise in the Garment District. Yet, it was evident to anyone with mild...
By Corey Erdman - More than one person said it this past week—even by stepping through the ropes on Saturday night to face Deontay Wilder, Tyson Fury was already a winner. Two years earlier, he was addicted to cocaine and binge drinking more than 20 beers a night, hoping to either drink himself to death or build up...
By Corey Erdman - The recipients of opportunities to take part in big fights aren’t always the ones with the most merit. The reasons fighters are given a chance to fight for a world title can range from pure placement in the world rankings to sheer name recognition. But if anyone in the light heavyweight division has earne...
By Corey Erdman - Inherent in any miracle is a healthy dose of luck. On Saturday, Nonito Donaire received his requisite sprinkle of good fortune in his first contest in the World Boxing Super Seires bantamweight tourney. Donaire, who entered the tournament as the lowest seeded fighter in his half of the bracket, we...