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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Leo Santa Cruz is seeing triple. The California-based Mexican is coming off the first loss of a decade-long career and is still days away from a chance at revenge, but the idea of a rubber match has already crossed his mind. He’ll meet conqueror Carl Frampton on Saturday in Las Vegas with des...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Erislandy Lara is still pining for a second chance. It’s been 920 days – or two years, six months and five days, if you’d rather – since the skilled Cuban southpaw suffered the greatest disappointment of his professional boxing career. That was July 12, 2014. And it ended with a split-decision loss...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Badou Jack is hungry. Not simply in a career-advancement sort of way, though. Oh sure, the Swedish 33-year-old now living in Las Vegas hopes a Saturday night duel with fellow super middleweight title claimant James DeGale ends with an extra trinket in the trophy case...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - If you’ve gotten to this point and aren’t happy, it’s your own fault. You should have seen it coming last week. As has become early January tradition in this Tuesday morning space, we proactively greet the New Year with a preview of stories other boxing scribes will be reacting to about 12 mon...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - There are a couple things I’ve always promised myself. I barely play golf. But if I was ever lucky enough to score a hole in one, I’ve vowed to pluck the ball out of the cup, slide the club into the bag and head straight to my car – because it’ll never get any better. Same goes for bowling. I consider my...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - If you thought Wladimir Klitschko looked happy, you thought right. The former consensus ruler of the heavyweight division has spent the last 13 months out of the ringed spotlight, but he took a giant step toward returning when he agreed to meet Anthony Joshua on April 29 at Wembley Stadi...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - I confess. I'd never been the biggest Bernard Hopkins fan. In fact, it wasn't all that long ago -- while slaving for another boxing master -- that I penned a column titled "Goodbye Bernard, Old Buddy" in the run-up to the old man's (he was a month shy of 41 at the time) loss to Jermain Taylor in the se...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Jermall Charlo is a man of multiple locales. He and twin brother Jermell are Texans by birth. And when it comes to boxing, he’s occasionally been compared to one of his idols – longtime Detroit-based superstar Thomas Hearns. But come Saturday night in Los Angeles, the 26-year-old is ho...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Some things remain predictable. The sun rises in the east, it sets in the west and the New York Jets are irrelevant by December. Oh, and one other thing… if a fighter bows out of a match with something less than a flat-lining EKG, the jackals on press row and beyond will pounce faster than fat...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - In Florida, we call it the “cone of uncertainty.” Whenever a hurricane clears the island of Hispaniola in the eastern Caribbean, meteorologists of every Sunshine State persuasion are sent scrambling to computer models to trace the path of the would-be storm as it approaches our...