External Riyadh Season has boxing media independence on the ropes Some 65,000 people will watch Saul “Canelo” Alvarez defend the super middleweight championship of the world against Terence “Bud” Crawford t… Thu, 11 Sep 2025
External Wham, 'Bam': Rodriguez dazzles in first defense at 115 Wham. Bam. In his first 47 pro fights, Pedro Guevara had never been stopped. In fact, all four of his defeats had come by either split or ma… Sun, 10 Nov 2024
External Too much boxing: Riyadh Season inadvertently makes the case against ‘supercards’ The opening bell rang at 12:54 a.m. on the East Coast. And by the time it did, I wasn’t just tired. I was tired of boxing. No matter how muc… Wed, 07 Aug 2024
External In Wake Of Garcia-Haney, A 10-Pack Of Thoughts On The 10-Stone Division The junior welterweight division doesn’t get a whole lot of respect. For superstar-level fighters, it tends to be just a way station between… Wed, 24 Apr 2024
External Canelo Alvarez needs to face rising super middleweight Edgar Berlanga, promoter Eddie Hearn says after his Brooklyn-born fighter obliterated Padraig McCrory in six rounds Edgar Berlanga scored his first knockout in more than three years with Saturday's sixth-round stoppage of Padraig McCrory – and now the 26-y… Mon, 26 Feb 2024
External Linares vs. Gesta Results: Linares Outclasses Gesta via 12-Round Decision HBO?s Boxing After Dark double main event opened with a one-sided unanimous decision win by Venezuela?s Jorge Linares (44-3, 27 KOs) over Me… Sun, 28 Jan 2018
External The Eccentric Genius of Muhammad Ali?s Boxing Style Muhammad Ali was so much more than just a boxer. ?I came to love Ali,? two-time foe Floyd Patterson told David Remnick for his book King of … Sun, 05 Jun 2016
External ?Are You Serious?? The Unlikely Ascent of GGG to PPV The ?five years too late? crowd was half right. As a business venture, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao arrived right on time this pa… Sat, 17 Oct 2015
External The Myths and Realities of Boxing?s Tilted Canvas Sports is full of popular clich?s, but it doesn?t make them true. Does defense really win football games? In combination with offense and sp… Tue, 09 Dec 2014
External Hopkins-Kovalev Preview: The 50-50 Blowout The mask has changed, but the man underneath it remains the same. Bernard Hopkins attempted a rebranding two fights ago, ending his two-deca… Fri, 07 Nov 2014
External De La Hoya vs. Trinidad revisited Controversy and cash are the twin engines that power boxing rematches, and Felix Trinidad vs. Oscar De La Hoya produced bundles of both. Whe… Thu, 05 Jun 2014
External '12 Days': Stevenson-Kovalev The clich?d "irresistible force versus immovable object" paradox makes for a pretty darned good stylistic showdown in the boxing ring. But i… Tue, 24 Dec 2013
External Is a Mayweather Loss What?s Best for Boxing? On June 16, 2012, a week after the Tim Bradley?Manny Pacquiao decision that launched every conspiracy theory short of a fourth judge on the … Fri, 13 Sep 2013
External We Went There: Matthysse Makes a Statement in Atlantic City This wasn?t supposed to be a blog about Floyd Mayweather. The Lucas Matthysse?Lamont Peterson fight on Saturday night at Atlantic City?s Boa… Tue, 21 May 2013
External One man's opinion: Ward still trumps Floyd It was just a week ago that, along with everyone else with even a passing interest in the sport of basketball, I found myself asking, "Who i… Tue, 14 May 2013
External Donaire-Marquez a fitting award debate 2012 will not go down as the year in which boxing developed a PEDs problem. But it will go down as the year in which boxing was forced to ad… Tue, 25 Dec 2012
External ?Miss Pac Man?: What We?ll All Be Doing On May 5 If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a tweet is worth ? well, at 140 characters max, certainly a whole lot less than a thousand word… Sat, 04 Feb 2012
External RASKIN?S RANTS: On Manny, On Floyd & On Freddie Roach I hope none of you boxing fans out there have been taking these Rants for (g)ranted. What once was a weekly tradition has become, due to oth… Thu, 19 Jan 2012
External Yaegashi-Pornsawan stands tall in 2011 Boxing fans will never be satisfied -- nor should they be -- in a world in which Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather haven't fought each oth… Sat, 31 Dec 2011
External THE RASKIES: Raskin's Rants, From A. Ward to Awards As you may have noticed, I haven?t had a byline here within the TSS universe in about three weeks. Time to come clean: I did 21 days in coun… Tue, 27 Dec 2011
