By Cliff Rold - The idea that boxing’s best have already settled into the rearview mirror is disproven regularly. There’s always someone new, somewhere on the scale, who comes along to expand the hist
By Thomas Gerbasi - The 24th fight of Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s career may have been his toughest. On October 21, 2000, the 1996 U.S. Olympic bronze medalist, already a world champion at 130 pounds, enga
The presidential election for the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has finally got the candidate widely expected to take the reform agenda forward. Umar Kremlev, Vice President of the European
Sheffield’s Kell Brook is not one who looks for the easiest route of resistance. Having won his IBF world welterweight title in the USA against Shawn Porter, Brook would later suffer back to back defe
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Teofimo Lopez has officially reached the level Frank Sinatra used to sing about. In reverse. He’s made it anywhere. And now it he ought to get a shot to make it there. The chatt
A potential last stand for a longtime box-office attraction in the United Kingdom now carries a domestic broadcast partner. The forthcoming showdown between three-division and reigning unbeaten welter
By Corey Erdman - A lot has been asked of Jaime Munguia in a short period of time. The 24-year old became a professional boxer eight years ago, still a teenager, and within five years was already a wo
Billy Joe Saunders will make the second defence of his WBO Super-Middleweight World Title against British rival Martin Murray at The SSE Arena, Wembley on Friday December 4, live on Sky Sports in the
By Keith Idec - Floyd Mayweather admitted Wednesday night that his promotional company is at least partially responsible for one of boxing’s most prominent problems. The retired superstar blamed the I
By Thomas Gerbasi - In other words, Prograis hasn’t gotten soft heading into a fight many see as a comeback showcase following the first loss of his career to Josh Taylor a year ago. In fact, some wou
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Sometimes you write a column and you just know it’s a good one. It’s a lot like when a basketball shot “feels good off the hands.” It was exactly that way for me last week. Upon
By Corey Erdman - On the week of the biggest fight of his life, Teofimo Lopez fielded a whole lot of questions, ranging from typical tactical queries to deep dives into his relationship with his fathe
By now, the story of how junior middleweight prospect Quinton Randall turned his life around through boxing has made the rounds in recent months, and it’s clear that after putting his past in the rear
By Tris Dixon - Fight fans have waited long enough but one of the best matches that can be made in boxing will take place when Vasiliy meets Teofimo Lopez in a Las Vegas bubble. The eyes of the boxing
Peter Kahn is one of the best managers in the boxing business. Despite this fact, he’s not prone to hyperbole like most of his peers. So when I asked him just how far one of his fighters – Xander Zaya
Erik Morales was getting married. I was on deadline. Ricardo Jimenez was being Ricardo Jimenez on a Friday when most of his peers would be packing up for the weekend. The meant one of the premier publ
By Cliff Rold - On Saturday, IBF lightweight titlist Teofimo Lopez (15-0, 12 KO) will face unified WBA/WBO titlist Vasyl Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KO) in a showdown of the consensus top two lightweights in
By Thomas Gerbasi - When boxing dusted itself off and began coming back from the COVID-19 pandemic in June, the reality of having no fans in attendance for the near future certainly hurt the bottom li
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - I’ve come to a decision. Or, to be more accurate, I’ve confirmed a decision I’d already considered. Vasyl Lomachenko is the best boxer in the world. Bar none. And to those contra
By Corey Erdman - Try as it might to pass for its former self, a good portion of boxing’s offerings during the global pandemic have been aseptic. Something from the fighters, from the limited audience