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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Coming to a convention center or casino parking lot near you… the 2020 fight of the year. Regis Prograis vs. Errol Spence Jr. For the undisputed welterweight championship of the world. Sound farfetched? Not if you ask Prograis, a rising 29-year-old who’s not averse to the idea of adding a few pou...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - This is a fun time of year. During the first week of October, I can count on the annual International Boxing Hall of Fame ballot arriving from the boys in Canastota – which ultimately yields both a 1,200-or-so word column in which I announce my votes, and an inbox full of emails telling me I'm a bl...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Jim Lampley got a call last week that he didn’t want to hear. But he knew that it would come. After spending 45 years as the gold standard of premium cable boxing, HBO execs pulled the plug on the “Network of Champions” – saying it would pivot away from the ring at the close of 2018. It’s...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Every couple of days, there's something else. Another of my colleagues in the boxing media business – be they friend or foe in terms of affiliation – comes out with an online or print opinion that laments the existence of sanctioning bodies and the often-dubious role they play in our sport. It's always....
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Whaddya know, my favorite day of the year rolled around again over the weekend. Well, OK, maybe it's fourth behind my birthday, my son's birthday and Christmas – but still, it's pretty big. September 16. The date when, over the course of seven years back in the 1980s, my life cha...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Three weeks after the Money circus finally left Las Vegas, it was the fight to save “real” boxing. And for nearly every one of 36 minutes, it delivered. In fact, it wasn't until a few minutes after the final bell that the first Gennady Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez middleweight matchup yielded even the s...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Boxing fans can finally envision a pleasant morning after. Rather than the walk of shame prompted by sought-after fights performing below expectations, the Saturday night duel between Danny Garcia and Shawn Porter should warrant a beaming stride of pride. The 12-rounder at Barcla...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - They’re on good enough terms now. Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder talked the requisite trash talk and shoved the camera-friendly shoves when the American headed to Belfast to publicly announce an imminent date with the “Gypsy King.” The two heavyweights even posed arm in arm shortl...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Shawn Porter. The sweet spot between the onset of training camp and the arrival of fight night that means the final stages of fine-tuning for an opponent – in this case, fellow former welterweight title claimant Danny Garcia – has arrived at last. Porter calls i...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - He was a world-class fighter from Easton, Pa. But no, not that one. Still, while it’s true Mark Holmes never achieved the success, acclaim or bankroll of his heavyweight champion older brother the now-59-year-old is hardly bitter about boxing. In fact, he’s diving headlong back into the business end...