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By Corey Erdman - When Tyson Fury steps through the ropes on Saturday night to face Sefer Seferi, he will no doubt be expected to win. Divorced from the context in which this bout came about, it is a gimme victory. But that would require ignoring Fury’s journey to get there, the greater fight he is fighting, one whi...
By Corey Erdman - For many years, Toronto was one of the only major cities in North America that wasn’t a thriving market for boxing. Typically, big cities are thriving markets for just about everything, but for a variety of reasons, that wasn’t the case when it came to boxing in Toronto. On Saturday night, Toronto’s A...
By Corey Erdman - There was a distinct similarity between Gennady Golovkin and Lebron James’ performances on Saturday night. After the plucky Toronto Raptors evened the game with James’ Cleveland Cavaliers with eight seconds left in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semi-finals, there was an aura...
By Corey Erdman - On Saturday night, three miles from Barclays Center where the majority of the boxing public set their eyes, three fighters with the looks of future dominant champions stepped into the ring at King’s Theater in Brooklyn. While Adrien Broner was busy charming people into believing he’s the sport’s futu...
By Corey Erdman - In many ways, Erislandy Lara and Jarrett Hurd had no business being a Fight of the Year contender. Lara is one of the sport’s most economical counterpunchers, a brilliant tactician who’d been able to nullify a who’s-who of the 154-pound division with a pawing right jab and a straight left hand. Not exa...
By Corey Erdman - After brutally knocking out Lucas Browne on Saturday night on HBO, Dillian Whyte immediately started screaming for a fight with Deontay Wilder. He’s not the only one. Any professional fighter above 200 pounds would love to crash the Anthony Joshua-Deontay Wilder party and get even a fractio...
By Corey Erdman - When you watch fights like the ones between Oscar Valdez and Scott Quigg, and Mikey Garcia and Sergey Lipinets, it’s very easy to love and appreciate the sport of boxing. Valdez vs. Quigg and Garcia vs. Lipinets gave us an early pair of Fight of the Year contenders, two bloody battles between f...
By Corey Erdman - Take a moment to consider that headline. It’s been 15 years since we’ve had a heavyweight fight on American soil of the magnitude of the one between Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz on Saturday night. Even if you don’t hold Wilder or Ortiz in the same esteem as two Hall of Famers in Lennox Lewis and...
By Corey Erdman - Plenty of boxers have the backing of their hometown fans, but none have the support of their city quite like Nico Hernandez. Ever since Hernandez won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics and decided to turn professional, the city of Wichita, Kansas has done everything it can to give Hernandez t...
By Corey Erdman - Roy Jones Jr. has been a professional boxer for almost as long as I have been alive. By the time I started covering boxing professionally, the boxer I had grown up watching, idolizing and imitating on the basement heavy bag was still fighting, gripping onto his last strands of relevance as a true contender. Wh...