The Best of 2014: All you need to know in the New Year
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Welcome back, my Tuesday friends, to the show that never ends. I’m so glad you could attend. Come inside, come inside. With last-day-of-the-year kudos to Emerson, Lake and Palmer – whose lyrics I’ve unapologetically co-opted to begin this week’s piece – I thank you for arriving to this, the annual crystal ball forecast column for the year that’s about to get under way. As last week’s installment showed, looking forward 12 months in boxing is, at best, an inexact science. Unlike football, baseball or their collective ilk, there are no master schedules from which to pluck events to predict. And even if I was prescient enough to know now which fights would be made between which guys, say, next October, there’s always a chance that three people sitting on the ring’s perimeter would pound my forecasting into dust with their definition of what constitutes a “boxing lesson.”