While I know I’m not Chris Mannix (I’m older) and this isn’t Sports Illustrated (we’re cheaper), there are no doubt at least a few things he and I have in common. First off, we’re both featured in multiple forms of media. Yeah, fine… he works for a gigantic magazine and has a recurring role on a live streaming conglomerate and I write for a boxing-specific website and do an occasional gig on satellite radio.
Lennox Lewis Video Interview - Unbeaten Polish star and Brooklyn native Adam Kownacki (20-0, 15 KOs) earned a unanimous decision over Chris "The Nightmare" Arreola (38-6-1, 33 KOs) in an all-action brawl in front of his hometown fans that headlined FOX PBC Fight Night main event and on FOX Deportes Saturday night from Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen "Breadman" Edwards tackling topics such as the World Boxing Super Series, Terence Crawford, Vasiliy Lomachenko, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, VADA testing and others.
by Cliff Rold - On July 20th, Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker was laid to rest in Norfolk, Virginia. It was the end of the story for one of the great fighters in the modern era. For fans of a certain age, it remains a hard loss. Only 55 years old, a car struck Whitaker in an unfortunate accident and the news sent a shock. He f...
The legendary Mexican coach and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, Ignacio 'Nacho' Beristáin, celebrated 80 years of life on July 31. He's regarded as one of the greatest champions in Mexican boxing. Originally from Veracruz, Beristáin has been linked to the boxing scene from a young age, but for 58 years he has been doing it from the corner of the ring, where he has guided some of the best Mexican fighters of all time.
Former WBC welterweight champion Carlos Baldomir was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Wednesday for the repeated sexual abuse of one of his daughters, a court in Santa Fe announced. The 48-year-old, who reigned as WBC champion in 2006, was arrested in 2016 following allegations by his ex-wife that he had abused his daughter between 2012 and 2014, when she was seven to eight years old.
By Corey Erdman - ARLINGTON, TX—Jose Ramirez and Maurice Hooker gave boxing fans everything they could have asked for on Saturday night: a title unification bout between two champions on opposite sides of boxing’s network and promotional divide, a toe-to-toe slugfest with ebb and flow, a conclusive ending...
The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen "Breadman" Edwards tackling topics such as Manny Pacquiao, the legacy of Pacquiao, the Filipino superstar's big victory over Keith Thurman, and more
By Michael Rosenthal - Two deaths and another failed drug test by a well-known fighter. I can’t remember a worse week in boxing. On Saturday Maxim Dadashev and Hugo Santillan, fighting about 5,000 miles apart, received the blows that would result in their deaths days later. We also learned that heavyweight Dillian Whyte was allowed to fight Oscar Rivas on Saturday even though he had failed a drug test three days earlier, arguably putting Rivas in a vulnerable position...
The boxer regarded as greatest fighter that Mexican boxing ever produced, the legendary Julio César Chávez, was a victim of crime upon his arrival in Mexico City, where he will participate on the show A Los Golpes on ESPN and analyze the fights for TV Azteca.