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Jermain Taylor – Middleweight Champion (Once Again)
By Sean Crouse No one wanted this fight to happen. That may be an exaggeration, but it isn’t much of one. For virtually all boxing fans and analysts felt that…
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Ducking Opponents: Then And Now
By Sean Crose Well over a hundred years ago, there was a man from Australia named Peter Jackson. Jackson was a fighter – and a damned good one. He fought…
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Jackie Kallen: Sam Soliman Versus Jermain Taylor Not A Top-Level Bout
By Jackie Kallen Does it strike anyone else anti-climactic that a 40-year-old fighter from Australia with 11 losses is fighting a 36-year old former champion for the IBF middleweight title?…
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Grand Self-Delusion: Why Won’t Andre Ward and Mikey Garcia Fight?
By Tyson Bruce The vast majority of 2014 has been a massive disappointment for professional boxing, and a failed opportunity to capitalize on a stellar 2013. While 2013 featured the…
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Bad Chad Dawson Has Himself Another Bad Night
By Sean Crose Chad Dawson needed a big win on Saturday. Since the start of his not-so-hyped comeback this year, he had fought less than one round. He showed up…
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Jackie kallen: Championship Fights Tonight at Foxwoods
By Jackie Kallen This Saturday night at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, CT, the IBF super featherweight title will be on the line when Rances Barthelemy (20-0) defends his belt against Fernando…
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Kathy Duva Claims Al Haymon Has Big Plans To Bring Boxing to Network TV
By Sean Crose According to an article at BoxingScene boxing promoter Kathy Duva has made an extremely bold statement regarding fight guru Al Haymon. “He’s promised NBC that he’s (Haymon’s)…
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Dan Goossen, Fun-Loving Fight Promoter, Dies at 64
By Ivan G. Goldman I’ve been rewriting this sentence for awhile now, trying to figure out a way to talk about the death of Dan Goossen. It’s hard to sum…
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Mayweather: does he still have it? Is he good for boxing? What is his legacy?
By Tyson Bruce No one would question that Mayweather deserved to win his second bout with Marcos Maidana. In fact, the combined thirteen rounds that the judges awarded Maidana seemed…
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The Canelo Alvarez Show: Counterprogramming At Its Best
By Sean Crose Why is it that Saul Canelo Alvarez is suddenly the toast of the boxing world? He has a huge fan base, sure, but so does Julio Caesar…
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Jackie Kallen: Will Women Boxing make a come back?
By Jackie Kallen Back in the late nineties, I was asked to be commissioner of an organization called the IFBA (International Female Boxers Association.) I eagerly accepted, anxious to help…
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Will Floyd Mayweather Go for $64 Million More or Finally Pack It In?
By Ivan G. Goldman Floyd Mayweather has already gone past that place where he must measure his love of money and adulation against the slow draining of his skills inside…
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Floyd Mayweather Makes Showtime’s Bad Day That Much Worse
By Sean Crose This quite possibly may be the longest day in the professional career of Showtime honcho Stephen Espinoza. Not only is Golden Boy head and founder Oscar De…
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NBC’s Live Boxing Broadcast Delivers – Sort Of
By Sean Crose There once was a time when boxing was a staple of network sports on the weekends. Three decades or so ago, names like Ray Mancini, Hector Camacho,…
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Is Floyd Mayweather a “Shot” Fighter?
By Kirk Jackson Hall of Fame Trainer Freddie Roach certainly thinks so. “I think Mayweather is shot, his legs are gone, and Manny will knock him out,” said Roach to…