After losing a tightly contested unanimous decision to Devin Haney last Saturday, Vasiliy Lomachenko did an excellent job of not expressing his disappointment in the ring...
I was ready to leave boxing as a writer. I had turned in my pained, heartfelt resignation, said my goodbyes and everything. But Sunday morning, in...
The first thing you need to understand about Brian Mendoza is that his Wikipedia page is so sparse it doesn’t even include a photo of him....
There are two ways to look at this latest (and possibly final) installment of the Rocky cinematic legacy: You can see it as the third film...
O’Shaquie Foster probably wasn’t supposed to be in a ring fighting for a world title on Saturday night. The once-promising fighter from Orange, Texas, nearly threw...
Let me first say that I love boxing. I grew up at a time when Muhammad Ali was perhaps the most well-known person in the world...
While it wasn’t covered much at the time, director Norman Jewison’s film, The Hurricane, about the railroading to a life sentence of the boxer Rubin ‘Hurricane’...
Yes, I’m aware that the title of this article may look like clickbait, but let me make something clear, I am deadly serious. The thought that...
In the third fight of their pitched and increasingly legendary trilogy, Roman “Chocolatito,” Gonzalez found himself for the second straight time suffering a brutally close loss...
Juan Francisco ‘Gallo' Estrada takes on Roman ‘Chocolatito' Gonzalez for the third time this Saturday live on DAZN. For reasons too tedious, obvious, and silly to...
It was all going so swimmingly wasn’t it? For the first 9-10 months of this boxing year, 2022 we were treated to numerous quality matchups and...
Coming off her thrilling, but notably taxing, split decision victory over Amanda Serrano (still my vote for fight of the year) at April’s end, Irish icon...
I don’t think anyone would have blamed the fighting pride of Ireland, Katie Taylor, if she had taken the rest of the year off after her thrilling,...
It may not seem like it now, but the first Creed film (released in 2015) was no sure thing. Sylvester Stallone had already signed off on...
“This is a jam for the ladies, the superstars.”—Moby On an evening when Deontay Wilder announced his return to the ring with authority, and Devin Haney...
Next Saturday, when Deontay Wilder and Robert Helenius meet in the ring at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, both men will be fighting for the same...
When I first saw that Craig Gillespie, the director behind I, Tonya, was going to be the driving force of a Mike Tyson series on Hulu,...
This Saturday at the O2 arena in London, Mikaela Mayer and Alycia Baumgardner will meet in a Super Featherweight unification bout on ESPN as part of...
It had been many, many years since I had first seen Humphrey Bogart’s cinematic swan song, The Harder They Fall; just one year after the film’s...
In the mid-nineties, I had the good fortune to meet Muhammad Ali during a book signing at a Barnes & Noble, where I worked at for...