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By Thomas Gerbasi - September 29, 2001. Eighteen days after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, New York City was still in a daze, but life was beginning to get back to normal, or at least the new normal throughout the battered Big Apple. That meant sports were slowly, but surely, coming back, giving us a much needed escape from the “real” world. One of the biggest events, a boxing match pos...
By Thomas Gerbasi - When Teddy Atlas was in the nation’s living rooms each week as the color commentator for ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights, producers would refer to his segments between fights as being on “Teddy Time,” an idea that the Staten Islander lived with, but didn’t exactly embrace. “How much time do you need...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Blame Manny Pacquiao. It wouldn’t be fair to say Ishe Smith was content in his retirement from boxing following a February loss to Erickson Lubin, but the former junior middleweight world champion had moved on and was doing all the things necessary to avoid making a comeback. “I hadn...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Choose your cliché for the sport of boxing. Do you like the Red Light District of Sports, or how about the Boulevard of Broken Dreams? They’re both apt, but maybe the most fitting is the Land of Second Chances. Or in the case of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., the third, fourth, fifth or sixth chance. This...
By Thomas Gerbasi - This could be all for naught. Chris Arreola could get blasted out in half a round by Adam Kownacki this Saturday in Brooklyn and still get more high-profile opportunities in the future. That’s the beauty of being a heavyweight. Whether marketable or not, the big men of boxing always seem to fin...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Adam Kownacki doesn’t have time to be sentimental or to reminisce. Not now. Not for a while. The Polish heavyweight contender has a fight to think about, the biggest one of his career against former world title challenger Chris Arreola. The August 3 bout is taking place at Barclays Center in his adop...
By Thomas Gerbasi - The education of Michael Conlan continues. As the eyes of the boxing world turn to Las Vegas and this Saturday’s clash between Manny Pacquiao and Keith Thurman, Conlan puts in long hours in the gym in London as he prepares for his August 3 meeting with Diego Alberto Ruiz. He’s just far away...
By Thomas Gerbasi - It was the worst summer ever. Boxing fans are used to disappointments. SuperFights that turn into SuperDuds. SuperFights that never materialize. Mismatches parading as SuperFights. You get the idea. But these disappointments pass. There’s always another fight that lives up to expectations. Another pair of fighters who are willing to step up and face each other, and pr...
By Thomas Gerbasi - The cut over Caleb Plant’s right eye was bad, but he had seen worse than what was taking place in the biggest fight of his professional boxing career – an IBF super middleweight title fight against Jose Uzcategui in January. Whether it was his formative years in Ashland City, Tennessee, or the day – and ever...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Boxing is taken seriously in Bukom. So when Isaac Dogboe lost his WBO junior featherweight title to Emanuel Navarrete last December, the heat was on for Richard Commey to get the job done in his own title fight. For Bukom. For Accra. For Ghana. That’s a lot of pressure for anyone, but Com...