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 last year. As has become early January tradition in this Tuesday morning space, we proactively greet the New Year with a preview of stories other boxing scribes will be reacting to about 12 months...
When the final bell rang on May 2nd, 2015, it may as well been the gong of the Undertaker as the highly anticipated but woefully unexciting super fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao signaled the end of boxing for the mainstream. And who could blame them for feeling that way? A fight that the world anticipated for a half a decade comes together and ends up being a one-sided exhibition that left just about everyone feeling like they had been hoodwinked and bamboozled. And what was left after Mayweather-Pacquiao?
By Corey Erdman - Everyone in the world can agree that 2017 was an outstanding year for the sport of boxing in America. It’s important to make the distinction of America because boxing has had plenty of great years, great fights and great fighters recently if one bothered to look outside of the United States. W...
The World Boxing Association (WBA) announced in January 2016 that it would work to reduce the number of WBA champions in boxing's 17 divisions and it has done so. The year 2017 began with 32 champions and closed out with 25 champions in the 17 divisions, although it is worth mentioning that when the sanctioning body started the plan to find a single champion in each weight class there were 42 champions.
Since the last update, only one of the top four fighters on the list stepped into the ring. In early December, Vasyl Lomachenko silenced the Cult of Rigo, overwhelming the Cuban maestro and forcing him to quit after six rounds.
Best known for his association with K2 Promotions and the Klitschko brothers and then more recently IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and GGG Promotions, Tom Loeffler will be expanding his horizon and starting up his own promotional company in 2018.
Another year of International Boxing Hall of Fame voting has come and gone. It will be another year where Donald Curry, the one time undisputed welterweight champion of the world, did not get the call. There was a time where Curry looked like he might be the pound for pound leader of the sport. A possible showdown with middleweight champion Marvin Hagler seemed inevitable. He was a thrilling knockout artist who could also box an opponent silly. The road to lasting greatness was open.
The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen "Breadman" Edwards tackling topics such as Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Mikey Garcia, Floyd Mayweather vs. Sugar Ray Leonard, some thoughts about candidates and winners for yearly awards, and more.
TACOMA, Wash. – Brian Halquist Productions will kick off its 2018 season with a special Friday night boxing event on Friday, Jan. 12 with Battle at the Boat 114 at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Wash. The six-bout card will feature a 10-round main event between welterweights John Jackson and Manuel Perez and the return of Walter “2 Guns” Wright.
Former world champion Carlos Baldomir will remain in custody in Santa Fe, Argentina while he is being investigated for the alleged crime of sexually abusing his daughter. Earlier today, the local justice today rejected a request for his release and aggravated the charges by adding on another offense - "corruption of a juvenile".