By Mitch Abramson - When Tyson Fury got into Deontay Wilder’s face during their traveling press conferences before their match in December, the two were following an age-old formula of trash talking to sell a fight. Fury yelled at Wilder and Wilder yelled back, and they traveled to another city and did it all again. Despite the chaotic...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - And all of a sudden, it’s a challenge once again. After many years in which a few names separated themselves from the pack of “modern” fighters angling for International Boxing Hall of Fame induction, we’ve got ourselves a horse race. Thanks in part to some rules changes implemented by the Central New York brain trust...
The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen "Breadman" Edwards tackling topics such as Errol Spence vs. Shawn Porter, Gennady Golovkin vs. Sergiy Derevyanchenko, Errol Spence vs. Terence Crawford, and more.
J Russell Peltz has literally etched his name in Philadelphia sports history. The statement figuratively rang true for the past 50 years as the Hall of Fame promoter and matchmaker helped define the Philly fight scene. Included among that run was the eight years he served as Director of Boxing for the famed—and now defunct Spectrum Arena from 1972-1980.
World Boxing Organization President Paco Varcacel has once again sounded off, on the subject of the voluminous amount of belts in the sport. A few weeks back, Varcacel took aim at the World Boxing Council - over their decision to create numerous belts for bouts that have nothing to do with their organization. On September 15th, the WBC created commemorative Mayan belts for Tyson Fury's fight with Otto Wallin in Las Vegas and for Jaime Munguia's bout with Patrick Allotey in Los Angeles.
The World Boxing Council will emphasize to the International Olympic Committee its position against the possibility of professional boxers participating in the Olympic Games, according to the president to the sanctioning body, Mauricio Sulaimán.
The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen "Breadman" Edwards tackling topics such as Canelo Alvarez vs. Sergey Kovalev, Errol Spence vs. Shawn Porter, the top 10 pound-for-pound fighters in the world, and more.
It appears that the cause of death of Borislav Velichkov, on Saturday evening in the ring in Shkoder, Albania, was heart failure. And apparently this was a pre-existing condition so boxing appears to be on the hook in a big way, as far as the blame to this terrible and tragic accident.
Boxer Iaso Velichkov has informed topsport.bg and other Bulgarian media that his now dead cousin, Boris, has been using his license for a year and fought eight times posing as Iaso Velichkov. According to the same source, the two cousins are not lookalikes, which means that it is very slack work by the various commissions that have allowed this scandal to go on - and now a young man is dead, who probably shouldn´t have been fighting at all.
A bad story gets story worse as Bulgarian media writes that the fighter who was reported to have died in the ring was NOT Isus Velichkov - but another fighter named Boris Stanchov, who has no known professional boxing record.