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It’s another big MMA week. Which means different things to different people. Especially we sportswriter types. Some count the time down by waxing nostalgic on past events. Some immerse in head-to-head matchups seeking evidence of one man’s superiority. And others simply spend time gorging on hospitality food and drink buffets – or raiding the home fridge until we’re back in the building.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s an irony to some and perfectly logical to others. Boxing is near the front of the line when it comes to brutality in the name of victory, but it’s also a sport that has consistently attracted outstanding writers. Literary names as large as Hemingway were enamored with the drama of the ring and its possibilities for memorable fiction...
OK, I miss Mike Tyson. Maybe it’s the lack of inspiration I get from Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, particularly while they make more headlines discussing title fights than actually fighting them. Maybe it’s the residue of multiple months in quarantine, with the specter of many more on the way thanks to spiking numbers in Florida.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - There are rankings by weight class. There are pound-for-pound rankings. And there are rankings that line up the best fighters in the world from one era to the next. All are worthwhile, but to add something new and challenging to the last stages of the quarantine conversation, the choice was made to bring a different set of boundaries...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Where Dana White leads, Bob Arum is sure to follow. OK, the grizzled boxing promoter is as likely to share a beach house with Al Haymon as say something nice about the controversial UFC czar, but it’s hard to argue the folks at Top Rank will happily bask in the “live sports are back” glow the mixed martial arts promotion began generating last month. Arum and Co. will produce the first significant stateside...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Legendary Nights. Though the current generation of boxing fans might not feel an instant connection, chances are good that anyone with a couple more decades under their belt already has an image in their head. In layman’s terms, it was the title for a series of half-hour documentaries produced by HBO that dived deep into the run-up and aftermath...
Darius Fulghum admits it. He’s allowed himself to imagine the moment. Though he’s still a top-three international finish away from securing a berth at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the 23-year-old concedes that thoughts of medal-kissing glory do creep in from time to time.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - If nothing else, a global pandemic has done wonders for journalistic awareness. With no live fights to discuss in what feels like forever, it’s been mandatory to keep an eye on the calendar for milestone dates to remember and an ear to the ground for potential stories rumbling past. And whaddya know, this week has been good for a little...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s been 15 years since his last fight. It’s been 17 years since his last victory. Yet somehow, a month before his 54th birthday, Mike Tyson is again the hottest name in boxing. The ex-king of the heavyweights has titillatied a pandemic-starved sports crowd with videos of recent training sessions and rumblings that he’s interested in a return to the ring.
If nothing at all else, Gianluca Di Caro is a social media pro. The native Londoner numbers his Facebook friends by the thousands and among them lists many of the promoters, fighters, media members and other “boxing people” familiar to mainstream fans.