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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s a big fight week. The biggest, for me at least, in a while. And if you can make a clear selection – and feel sure about it – you’re a better man than I. Because the more I look at Andre Ward’s challenge of light heavyweight monster Sergey Kovalev, the less positive I feel about the pick I’ve made since...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - The countdown is on. In fact, as of this morning we’re at T-minus 11 days. That’s 11 days until a fight – light heavyweight monster Sergey Kovalev against former super middleweight king Andre Ward – that’s got me as excited as any I can remember in many, many years. That’s 11 days until a fight...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Manny Pacquiao’s been a boxer for many years and a politician for few. But the Filipino has nevertheless mastered the art of competitive diplomacy. As he heads back to Las Vegas for a fight that ends a retirement that really never got under way, the now-37-year-old Pacquiao is the subject of...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Ask any boxing know-it-all. Chances are they’ll suggest that the only thing declining faster than a fighter who’s past his 30th birthday… is an inactive fighter who’s past his 30th birthday. It’s easy to understand, then, why Andre Ward doesn’t have much time for know-it-alls. Though the...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It never fails. Whenever I enter a week in need of inspiration for my Tuesday morning labor of boxing love, I have a go-to source that’s never once left me hanging. My classroom of first-graders at Cape Coral Charter School. What, you were expecting someone older? Indeed, as the...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s probably not his fault, but I’m still going to blame Edward Brophy. The executive director of the International Boxing Hall of Fame had zero impact on when my parents met, married and decided to have children, so my blessed arrival on day No. 45 of Richard Nixon’s presidency was likely not...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Months after the nostalgia fueled by his death, another Muhammad Ali anniversary has arrived. But this one’s not worthy of celebration. This past Sunday marked 36 years since Oct. 2, 1980. Thirty-six years since the beating Ali need never have taken. That night in Las Vegas with television...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - For some, a first television fight is a watershed event. But to Trey Lippe Morrison, performing in front of a big crowd is old hat. 'I don’t know how to explain it. I guess some people can do it and some people can’t,” said the newly-minted 27-year-old. The son of ex-heavyweight champ Tommy Morrison...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Life would be a lot easier if Gennady Golovkin bounced balls or slapped pucks. That way, the multi-belt middleweight title claimant would be able to prove his claims of athletic superiority by simply beating the would-be competition in front of him and waiting for the other side of the bracket to supply a suitable victim for him in an ultimate championship setting.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - I’m excited. It’s almost my favorite day of the year. Well, OK, maybe it's fourth behind my anniversary, my son's birthday and Christmas -- but still, it's pretty big: Sept. 16. The day on which, over the course of seven years back in the 1980s, my life changed forever. First, it was Sept. 16, 1981...