Who gets the big fights?
This article may center on how those who win the Mayweather sweepstakes but it is a wider point in boxing I have never really understood but intuitively made peace with. How do fights get made? There seems to a myriad …
Boxing Rumour Round-Up
For some reason today has seen the boxing community at large indulge itself in some bizarre rumors and frankly it is hard to keep up. The first half of the year has been very interesting if a little strange and …
Weekend round up; Guerrero, Lomachenko and Alexander all win
The three fights this weekend could easily have been the least memorable boxing card of 2014. Robert Guerrero in a tune up fight, the boring Devon Alexander and a tactical bore fest with two featherweights. How wrong that was. Devon …
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Life Before and Beyond The Fighter by Micky Ward
In a snapshot Micky Ward has had one of the more interesting boxing careers and indeed lives that one could imagine. Let’s start with his family. He seems to have around 45 sisters and a mother that doubled as his …
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Top Ten Carl Froch Victories
Now that Carl Froch has dispatched with George Groves and seems set to travel Stateside to cement his legacy. Let us take a look back at the best victories from the career of Carl Froch who has possibly had the …
What is the real story post Provodnikov v Algieri?
On the 14th of June, Ruslan Provodnikov lost his WBO light welterweight title to Chris Algieri in a really decent bout at the Barclays Centre in Brooklyn, N.Y With the dust settling it seems that no-one really knows what to …
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Current Top 10 P4P Rankings
The very definition of the pound for pound rankings accepts that the idea is limited, though they use the word subjective. Personally I like to look at overall ability rather than current ranking within the weight class, opponents beaten or …
Immediate impressions post Cotto/Martinez
So where do we go from here? After a display as good as anything we have seen from Miguel Cotto in his storied career it seems that the world is his oyster. Not only has he lined up a potential …
Miguel Cotto vs Sergio Martinez; Preview and Prediction
On Saturday the 7th of June, two rather large looming figures in the sport of boxing face each other in quite frankly, a very strange contest. Miguel Cotto has never fought at Middleweight and aside from a gimmie victory over …
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