External Measured Against All Time: Manny Pacquiao A deep dive into the career of the leading name on the current Hall of Fame ballot On June 8, 2025, the International Boxing Hall of Fame wi… Tue, 05 Nov 2024
External Naoya Inoue Adds Accolades: Weekend Afterthoughts Naoya Inoue probably won’t be back in the ring until May. By then, he will have passed the ten-year anniversary of his first major title win… Wed, 27 Dec 2023
External Naoya Inoue-Marlon Tapales: Stats & Stakes In 1976, the WBC brought back a division that only briefly and without much fanfare flared on the boxing scene in the early 1920s. In the sp… Tue, 26 Dec 2023
External Tank-Garcia: What We Don’t Know is Part of The Fun Has there been a major event quite like Gervonta Davis-Ryan Garcia in recent memory? Hopes are high heading into this Saturday (Showtime/DAZ… Thu, 20 Apr 2023
External Upset Flavor a Busy Boxing Weekend: Afterthoughts 2023 has been off to a great start but, if it’s been missing one thing so far, that thing is unpredictability. The chalk has been strong thr… Tue, 11 Apr 2023
External The Other Half at 122 Returns Stephen Fulton defending his WBC and WBO Jr. featherweight titles against bantamweight kingpin Naoya Inoue was hotly anticipated for May and… Thu, 06 Apr 2023
External Gesta Reminds a Career Can Retrack: Weekend Afterthoughts There was a time, and if it feels like a long time ago now it’s because it kind of is, but there was a time when Mercito Gesta was considere… Tue, 21 Mar 2023
External Brandon Figueroa-Mark Magsayo: Stats and Stakes Boxing’s in-ring product is red hot right now. The biggest stars haven’t aligned yet, though we’re getting to some of those dates, but if on… Sat, 04 Mar 2023
External Fury, Crawford Announcements Deflate Late-2022: Weekend Afterthoughts The first half of 2022 was one of the best six-month stretches for the sport of boxing in the 21st century. Boxing fans were treated to the … Mon, 24 Oct 2022
External Mark Magsayo-Rey Vargas: Stats & Stakes Sometimes, a title win is validation of a fighter’s placement in the upper echelon in their division. Sometimes, the conditions of the win l… Sat, 09 Jul 2022
External Naoya Inoue-Nonito Donaire II: Stats & Stakes Can they do it again? While the result was little in doubt when the final bell sounded in 2019, what happened over the course of twelve roun… Tue, 07 Jun 2022
External A New King (We Hope) and The Return of Canelo: May Preview Unification fever was everywhere in April with new partially unified titlists crowned at middleweight, welterweight, and Jr. lightweight on … Tue, 03 May 2022
External Lomachenko, Donaire March On: Weekend Afterthoughts A pair of former champions highlighted the weekend, both picking up their second win in a row since a loss to a younger tiger in the sports … Mon, 13 Dec 2021
External Bantamweight Begins the Other December Showcase Much has been made, rightly, of the unofficial lightweight showcase wrapping up Saturday night in the battle between former lightweight titl… Thu, 09 Dec 2021
External Davis, Haney, Lomachenko: Who is in Most Danger? Teofimo Lopez, coming off a career making win over Vasyl Lomachenko, was going to continue his march to superstardom last weekend, going thr… Thu, 02 Dec 2021
External Manny Pacquiao-Yordenis Ugas: Stats and Stakes What’s the old song line about not getting what we want but still getting what we need? Despite the loss of Errol Spence-Manny Pacquiao, wha… Sat, 21 Aug 2021
External Pacquiao-Ugas: Less an Event, Still a Real Fight Disappointment was to be expected. It’s perfectly reasonable. Despite a year with plenty of thrills in the ring so far, boxing has fallen sh… Thu, 19 Aug 2021
External Jermell Charlo-Brian Castano: Stats and Stakes Assuming an eleventh-hour glove controversy doesn’t derail plans, and these controversies seldom do, sometime in the next twenty-four hours,… Sat, 17 Jul 2021
External Nordine Oubaali-Nonito Donaire: Stats & Stakes Fourteen years is a long time for anything. To spend most of that time among the best in whatever weight class you are currently battling in… Sat, 29 May 2021
External Errol Spence-Danny Garcia: Afterthoughts It had to be seen to find out. Coming off his auto accident in 2019, would Errol Spence still be Errol Spence? After twelve rounds, we had a… Tue, 08 Dec 2020
