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By Thomas Gerbasi - As he closed out an amateur career that included a reported 167 wins and several titles and accolades, Dominic Wade was tagged as a future world champion. Once he turned pro in 2009 and kept piling up victories, that talk continued. Then he was announced as the latest opponent / victim for unbeaten...
By Thomas Gerbasi - You might have assumed that Chris Algieri enjoyed the little break he got the last time he stepped into the ring against Erick Bone last December. It’s not that his 10-round decision victory was easy, but the break being referred to was the one he got when he was in a non-main event for the first time in a long time.
By Thomas Gerbasi - It’s always important to make sure an interviewee is quoted correctly. So when unbeaten flyweight Seniesa Estrada said that she hopes to be 10-0 by the end of 2016, I had to ask her if I heard correctly. See, Los Angeles’ Estrada is only 5-0 as she prepares for her first fight of the year against Selene Lopez on April 23. But this was no spotty phone connection playing tricks on me. She was serious. As such, maybe...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Fans and pundits say that Radivoje Kalajdzic is going to be the most difficult fight of Marcus Browne’s professional career, and the 2012 United States Olympian agrees. “This is definitely the toughest test of my career,” he said. But the 25-year-old has seen tougher in life. And like any good son, he’s got a healthy fear...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Unbeaten junior welterweight prospect Regis Prograis has a pretty cool nickname already with “Rougarou,” which is, in the words of the New Orleans native, “like a Louisiana swamp beast.” But if he ever has a change of heart, “No Fun” might be a decent substitute to describe his current situation. Well, not exactly...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Teddy Atlas hasn’t even been asked a question, but he’s already started talking. He chuckles, but there’s nothing light-hearted about the words that come out of his mouth as he discusses the April 9 rubber match between his fighter, Timothy Bradley, and Manny Pacquiao. “It’s the way I get,” he said. “It’s part of the territory. I’m concerned, as always, about the responsibility I’m here for..
By Thomas Gerbasi - When Mongolia’s Tugstsogt Nyambayar wanted to turn pro following an amateur career highlighted by his Silver medal-winning performance in the 2012 Olympics, he wanted only one man in his corner. Joe Goossen. The reason was simple. 'To the best of my knowledge, he had – like so many other fighters...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Every fighter has a story. Sadam Ali’s truly began in the Coney Island Boxing Gym on 25th street in Brooklyn. He started boxing at eight, and by the time I ran into him before the Jesse James Leija-Hector Camacho Jr. fight in 2001, he was a four-year veteran of the sport who had so much success already that he...
By Thomas Gerbasi - As the biggest fight of his career approaches, Hank Lundy knows what you’ve said about him. And that’s okay, because a day from now, it’s down to him and Terence Crawford and nobody else. “I read everything,” Lundy said. “‘He shouldn’t be in the ring, he just lost.’ But like I tell everybody, nobody in this boxing game...
The "First Lady" has returned. Out of the ring since November of 2014, Norway's Cecilia Braekhus will be back in action this Saturday to defend her five welterweight titles against Uruguay's Chris Namus in Germany. It's the beginning of a new chapter for the women's pound-for-pound queen, and the close of a 2015 campaign that even Braekhus finds difficult to put into words.