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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - The Mount Rushmore of upsets. Regardless of your generation or sport of choice, the top candidates for chiseled-granite immortality can probably be plucked from a similar crop of wannabes. The New York Jets in Super Bowl III. North Carolina State in the NCAA Final Four. The U.S. me...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Think about some recent greats in the major sports. Michael Jordan in basketball. Wayne Gretzky in hockey. Brett Favre in football. Upon hearing their names, chances are good that the first mental images conjured are those of Jordan clad in black and red, Gretzky in copper and blue and Favr...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Given the sentimentality that retirements can bring, some folks out there may be thinking it. But we'll go ahead and say it. When it comes to career-long bodies of work, Wladimir Klitschko was the most physically daunting heavyweight champion who ever lived. Klitschko, for those who misse...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Watch enough boxing and it’s nearly a certainty. Almost every weekend and surely a few times each month, the most frequent word in morning-after content on social media is “robbery” – pertaining to yet another perceived judging disaster. Sometimes it’s not warranted. Often, though, it is. Bu...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - If boxing is your career field, you could follow far worse blueprints than Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s. Now 40 years old, the Pretty Boy-turned-Money man cut an enviable swath of excellence across five weight classes across parts of three decades while building an out-of-ring conglomerate har...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - I’m not sure if Oscar De La Hoya knows Lindsey Graham. But as the hoopla and mayhem emanated from the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor press tour last week, I began thinking of the two men in the same sad-sack context. Graham, for those unaware, is a multi-term Republican s...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Addiction. The folks at Merriam-Webster have a clinical definition for it: “(The) compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal.” Thing is, it also fits the way Omar Figueroa Jr. feels...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Kelly Pavlik makes it perfectly clear. Though his career doesn’t always get plaudits and non-boxing issues tend to obscure a championship resume, he’s got zero problems sleeping at night five years after throwing his last punch. “I had a stellar career,” Pavlik said. “I was 40-2. I lost to two all-tim...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - OK, let’s face some facts. Rightly or wrongly, we all know what we’ll be doing on Aug. 26. And though no offense is intended to the fighters or the executives with whom they’ve aligned, we all know it has precisely nothing to do with Miguel Cotto, Yoshihiro Kamegai or the Network of Cham...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Kermit Cintron’s not mad at Floyd Mayweather. Nor is he incensed at Conor McGregor. In fact, unlike the crop of self-righteous boxing defenders who’ve emerged since last week, he’s got no real problem with those two making a boatload of cash for their Aug. 26 desert extravaganza wh...