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By Thomas Gerbasi - Eugene “Cyclone” Hart made it to 22-0 with 1 NC before he suffered the first pro loss of his career against Nate Collins in 1972. Then things got interesting, as the Philadelphia middleweight faced the best fighters of his era, guys like Marvin Hagler, Willie Monroe, Bobby Watts, Bennie Bri...
Mike Lee wasn’t paying particular attention to the numbers in his win column, but when his Friday fight with Aaron Quattrocchi was dubbed by promoters as “Going for 20-0,” he had to at least acknowledge this potential milestone in his pro boxing career. “Other people made it more of a big deal than I did in my own head,” Lee said. “I’m the kind of person that won’t be fully satisfied until I get a chance to fight for a world title. That’s why I started and that’s why I’m doing this. So while I’m happy and enjoying the fact that I’m going for 20-0, it’s not the be-all end-all for me.”
By Thomas Gerbasi - Willie Monroe Jr. is in that “other” middleweight title fight this weekend, far away from Las Vegas, where Gennady Golovkin and “Canelo” Alvarez will have the boxing world watching intently. Instead, Monroe will be in London’s Copper Box Arena, the foreign invader taking on the local hero...
By Thomas Gerbasi - When it comes to the story of Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, one of the lasting touchstones is the time when the future WBC super flyweight champion walked 60 miles to Bangkok in search of a job. Even imagining a trek like that is hard to comprehend, but you would assume that it’s during such a...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Joe Pastore never left boxing. He still held on, refusing to leave a mistress that treated him poorly. And while he wasn’t satisfied, he was at least content, working with former world champion Kermit Cintron, a fighter whose acrimonious first split with Pastore let the Pennsylvanian know that boxing...
As one of nine children, this may sound cliché, but Charles Conwell had to learn how to fight. “I was the second youngest, so I got picked on a lot,” he said with a chuckle. But after taking the necessary lessons from his siblings, nothing Conwell faced in the boxing ring would be quite as daunting, with the result eventually being a spot on the 2016 U.S. Olympic team and a 4-0 pro record he hopes to make 5-0 when he meets Reynaldo Trujillo in Miami, Oklahoma Friday night.
By Thomas Gerbasi - Steve Cunningham is one of boxing’s good guys. He always has been. But he’s also human, so it can irk him at times when a consistent theme in interviews is his age. “I understand why they do it, but it gets on my nerves,” said the 41-year-old Philadelphian. “People who see me in the gym and kn...
Lincoln, Nebraska is a long way from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but Shakur Stevenson doesn’t mind. A year ago, he was chasing a gold medal in the 2016 Olympics. Today, he’s chasing gold of a different sort in the pro boxing ring. “It flew by fast,” the Silver medalist says of the last 12 months. “It feels like it was a couple months ago. I didn’t expect it to go by this fast.”
By Thomas Gerbasi - On the verge of competing in his first bout in 20 months this Saturday, Bryant Jennings admits that the time off did him good. Not that he wanted nearly two years off. “I didn’t need that a long of a break,” he chuckles, days before he faces Daniel Martz on the Terence Crawford vs. Julius Indongo ca...
By Thomas Gerbasi - There are easier assignments than taking on a biography of a man who has probably had more words written about him than any other in the last hundred years, at least in sports, and most certainly in the boxing world. But Jonathan Eig, who has already tackled the likes of Lou Gehrig, Jacki...