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Comeback Time For Paulie Malignaggi

Boxers know comebacks, don’t they? Paul Malignaggi, let go by Showtime in late July following controversial remarks made during an on-the-record chat with a fightgame videographer,...

Teddy Atlas Dinner Is ON; Thursday, Nov. 19, The (Virtual) Show Will Take Place

Regarding the 24th Annual Dr. Theodore A. Atlas Foundation Dinner…it will take place. The podcaster-analyst-trainer-philanthropist put out word that on Thursday, Nov. 19, the dinner will...

Ryan Garcia Throws Hard Darts At Devin Haney and Gervonta Davis

It’s a month away, and Ryan Garcia will now have even more of an impetus to make maximum impact when he faces off with Luke Campbell...

Gervonta Davis Lands Uppercut From Hell, Drops/Stops Leo Santa Cruz

The people got good bang for their book, the ones that chose to buy the Saturday night PPV topped by Gervonta Davis, in against respected vet...

New Deontay Wilder Video Comes Off A Bit Bat-Shit

He’d been off radar, for the most part, and maybe it’s better he go back to that… Deontay Wilder put out a new video, and judging...

Who Won the Weekend? Chocolatito and Estrada-Cuadras Get Looks

The lighter weight fighters don’t get the same love and attention the jumbos get, but they damn well do give us all better bag for the...

Cruiserweight Fabio Turchi Gets Rounds In, Gets W Over Grisunin, From Milan

Italian cruiserweight Fabio Turchi got some work in on Friday, going ten rounds with Nikolajs Grisunin of Latvia at the Allianz Cloud building from Milan, Italy,...

FUNDRAISER ALERT! Raising Money For Amateur Boxers To Attend College

The American Association for the Improvement of Boxing (AAIB) Boxers Assistance Corporation funds scholarships for boxers who are high school graduates and need support to take...

To Pay Per View Or NOT To PPV, We Put The Question To You

They are running on parallel tracks, on a collision course. On Saturday, Top Rank liked the numbers achieved when they put that Teofimo Lopez v Vasiliy...

Who Won The Weekend? No Debate, It’s Lopez The Great

Anyone choosing otherwise would have gotten a super side eye, and maybe an off the record WTF?!! When the question was asked, I knew, you knew,...

The Walk Matched The Talk! Teofimo Lopez Scores UD12 Win Over Vasiliy Lomachenko

Teofimo Lopez and his father Teofimo the elder talked mountains of smack, for years, and spoke their way into a fight with a man many folks...

Kendo Castaneda Predicts Stoppage Win Over Josue Vargas

Kendo Castaneda may be as ready as he’s ever been, as pro, for his test. Coming into the 140 pound plus ESPN/Top Rank showdown with Josue...

Lanell Bellows Says He’s Not There To Get To Round Two, He Will Hand Berlanga First Loss

The undercard for the anticipated lightweight clash, between the sublime operator Vasiliy Lomachenko and the eager power hitter with the Brooklyn edge to his personality, Teofimo...

Lomachenko and Lopez Make Weight

Things To Consider As We Look At Gervonta Davis Versus Leo Santa Cruz Oct. 31

On paper, Leo Santa Cruz figures to be the stiffest test to date for young gun Gervonta Davis, the talented Baltimore native who has a skill...

Charles Conwell Uppercuts His Way To ShoBox KO Win Over Wendy Touissant

He’d tried the right uppercut right before, and saw the opening was there, so Charles Conwell threw it again, as a lead, as he advanced on...

Stephen Breadman Edwards Tells Truth On COVID, While Trump Tells Lie After Lie

One might have thought, back in March, that by October, this country would have been reasonably well-situated regarding the national response to coronavirus. No one without...

Shawn Simpson, A 12-0 Pro, Needs Your Help, With Medical Expenses

Our nation’s health care system is broken, and sometimes that reality hurts more than other times. When you see people needing to start a GoFundMe campaign...

ALERT: New York State Athletic Commission Is Open To Sanctioning A Boxing Card, FYI

This week, I had a thought. With public school kids from pre-k on up going back to school, I got curious: What about boxing? My fifth...

Jose Zepeda Stops Ivan Baranchyk In No Brainer 2020 Fight of the Year

It was the best of boxing, and it was, we feared, the worst of boxing, on Oct. 3, 2020, when Jose Zepeda and Ivan Baranchyk engaged...