External Why the Best Boxers Don’t Draw the Biggest Crowds This past Tuesday, at around 7:30 a.m. in New York, or 4:30 a.m. in California, a small but stubborn faction of the American boxing audience… Sat, 29 Jul 2023
External When Should a Great Boxer Retire? Three months ago, boxing fans got some exciting news and some worrisome news on the same day. The exciting news was that Manny Pacquiao, one… Fri, 20 Aug 2021
External HOW WILDER-FURY II BECAME THE BIGGEST BOXING MATCH IN THE WORLD f all the products that were advertised during this year’s Super Bowl, perhaps none was more exotic than this one: Wilder Fury II, which des… Fri, 21 Feb 2020
External Manny Pacquiao Might Be Making a Terrible Mistake Muhammad Ali boxed professionally from 1960, when he outscored a journeyman (and police officer) named Tunney Hunsaker, until 1981, when Ali… Fri, 19 Jul 2019
External Wilder vs. Fury: Two Unpredictable Heavyweights and the Biggest Fight in Boxing A recent promotional video from Showtime Sports began with a dispatch from Alabama. Nick Saban, the University of Alabama?s monomaniacal foo… Sat, 01 Dec 2018
External G.G.G. vs. Canelo Might Be the Best Fight in Boxing Boxing generates better stories than just about any other sport?and worse data. A few weeks ago, after Conor McGregor survived nine and a ha… Sat, 16 Sep 2017
External Mayweather Versus McGregor: Who?s Worse? Boxing , like all sports, is addictive because it is so unsatisfying. In a boxing film, you can be assured of a narrative arc, building to a… Fri, 25 Aug 2017
External Beyond Mayweather-McGregor, a Boxing Match That Could Measure Real Greatness he most highly scrutinized boxing video of the year comes not from a fight but from a sparring session between two men, neither of whom happ… Sat, 19 Aug 2017
External Mayweather vs. McGregor Is the Kind of Circus Matchup That Only Boxing Allows On Wednesday, Floyd Mayweather announced that he was un-retiring, after nearly two years away from boxing. Despite the fact that he recently… Sat, 17 Jun 2017
External It?s the Fight of the Year and No One Cares Good news for boxing fans: this weekend?s fight is the most important one of the year, a long-awaited meeting of two of the best fighters on… Sat, 19 Nov 2016
External Miguel Cotto, Canelo ?lvarez, and Boxing?s New Era This past September, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., announced his retirement, and although plenty of boxing fans won?t miss him, a number of boxing … Tue, 24 Nov 2015
External Is Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin the Next Best Boxer in the World? At Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, eager (and perhaps not entirely sober) fans could, if they wanted, spend three hundred dollars o… Tue, 20 Oct 2015
External This Can?t Really Be the End of Floyd Mayweather, Can It? Four and a half months ago, when Floyd Mayweather, Jr., fought Manny Pacquiao, promoters advertised it?not exactly inaccurately?as the Fight… Tue, 15 Sep 2015
External Ultimate Fighting Versus Boxing Like many boxing fans, Dana White was looking forward, in early May, to the so-called Fight of the Century?Floyd Mayweather, Jr., vs. Manny … Sat, 23 May 2015
External Floyd Mayweather?s Father: ?He Didn?t Do Bad? Every year, the Boxing Writers Association of America gives out the Eddie Futch Award, named for the man who coached Joe Frazier to victory … Fri, 22 May 2015
External How Much Does Pacquiao-Mayweather Matter? In a humid boxing gym in Hollywood on Tuesday, members of the sports media outnumbered world-class boxers by about twenty to one. They had c… Fri, 13 Mar 2015
External A (Relatively) Happy New Year for Boxing loyd Mayweather told his father that he wants to fight Manny Pacquiao, according to a report from his hometown newspaper. That?s exciting ne… Fri, 16 Jan 2015
External Bernard Hopkins, the Not-So-Ageless Alien Last year, after Bernard Hopkins outboxed a good but not great opponent named Karo Murat, all anyone could talk about was his age. Hopkins w… Wed, 12 Nov 2014
External Breaking Bread The other day, an aspiring doctor from Huntington, Long Island, went to dinner with a celebrity from the Philippines. They came straight fro… Tue, 14 Oct 2014
External Floyd Mayweather: A Cautionary Tale Last week, Floyd Mayweather, promoting his upcoming fight, was asked about the N.F.L.?s banishment of Ray Rice. ?I think there?s a lot worse… Thu, 18 Sep 2014
