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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Consensus middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin is a bad man. Or, as boxing fans might put it… he’s a baaaaaaad man. So much so that simply finding qualified opponents willing to share a ring with him is difficult. And considering he’s unbeaten in 35 professional fights, has defended his...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s a tasty time to be a boxing fan. Now that the gloved action at the Summer Olympics in Brazil has come and gone, the stage is cleared for a series of professional fights that’ll make the remainder of the year delicious. And thanks to the contented palate that appetizers like Golovkin-Brook, Kovalev-Ward and the return of Manny Pacquiao seem sure to create...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Magazines have them. Websites have them. Even cable television networks throw their hats into the pound-for-pound ring. So as the year’s eighth month nears its ninth and a series of attractive fights – Golovkin-Brook and Kovalev-Ward among them – begins popping up on the horizon, it’s high...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s an Olympic year. There’s boxing to be watched. But this year, as my Olympic rings are mixed with my boxing rings, I’m sad. I miss Howard Davis Jr. Perhaps the greatest U.S. Olympic boxer who not every fan is familiar with, Davis was not just a gold medalist during his Summer Games star turn in Montreal...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s hardly a guaranteed pathway to professional boxing supremacy. In fact, ring history is littered with examples of fighters who strutted their stuff on the Olympic stage, then fell flat on their medaled faces when the fights got longer and the gloves got smaller. Exhibit A: Heavyweight gold...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Well, Leo Santa Cruz, it was fun while it lasted. Being the fight nerd that I unashamedly am, I spent a sizeable chunk of my Saturday afternoon – hours prior to the start of Showtime’s three-bout main card from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn – going ahead and making a list of what would come next...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Saturday night was a big HBO boxing night. But one night earlier, it was all about Showtime. The network’s 15th anniversary broadcast of ShoBox: The New Generation took place Friday night from Foxwoods Resort in Mashantucket, Conn., and ringside analyst Steve Farhood, who's...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Leo Santa Cruz has his eyes on bigger prizes. But before he gets to them, he’s got at least one more small objective. A former two-division title-holder before rising to featherweight, Santa Cruz will risk his latest crown against another rising commodity – 122-pound claimant Carl Frampton...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - When a note from Gennady Golovkin’s publicist hit my inbox Friday afternoon with a subject line heralding a September fight with Kell Brook, I was sure I’d seen it wrong. So when I clicked ahead on the email, I made sure to read it twice. By the time I’d completed all 863 words the second time, I’d...
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. As has become tradition in this Tuesday morning space come early July, we celebrate the New Year’s midway point with a status report on the predictions made six months earlier. It’s been, as...