Friends, is it to you the most wonderful time of the year? Not me, not as Nick Reiner stories gum up my scrolling stations. Hoping that dirty and sad saga is a psychic belch, an exorcise offering to the gods of future prospects, i.e., the Fates. Through the narrower lens, looking back at the “fight […]
The WBC (World Boxing Council) and Terence Crawford are beefing. Here we go again. Boxing being stupid, bogging itself down with outside-the-ring stuff which turns off prospective new fans who just want to see good fights, and not get caught up in politics. There is enough politics outside of sports, yes? The WBC is moving
Lucas Browne showed off a couple of his favorite tattoos while Elie Seckbach filmed with two phones at the Friday night weigh-in for the BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing show Saturday in Pembroke Pines, FL, topped by a heavyweight title battle. Browne, age 46, lives in Perth, Australia, and this isn’t his first rodeo. So, while
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Paul Malignaggi has been doing this a long time, so much so that when I asked him how many stitches he took from a Saturday rumble in Leeds, England, he admitted he didn’t know for sure. “I always forget to ask lol,” said the 44-year-old Brooklyn native, who calls Florida home. Malignaggi got the “W”
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Danny Garcia does not “have to do this.” He is wealthy, having invested wisely since he started earning heavy checks, around 2012. He is 37 and has three kids to be dad to, real estate to manage, etc. The Philly fighter, sitting next to his dad at Barclays Center Thursday, talking up his promotion for
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Did you shake your head when Canelo Alvarez (63-2-2, 39 KOs) vs. Terence Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) got made and it was billed as a “Fight of the Century?” Did your guard go up, the anti–overhype sensor tingling? If the answers are yes, you are like me—approaching the Canelo-Crawford scrap with caution, more than ardor,
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The Grudge is a sports documentary series on Vice TV, debuting in March 2025. It covers some of the fiercest rivalries in sports, with 30-minute episodes airing Wednesdays at 10 PM ET. The format mixes archival footage, promotional clips, and commentary. I watched on Philo. On May 2, 2015, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena
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I found it curious that there was a lack of sentiment on the last Top Rank show with ESPN, on Saturday, July 26, from the Madison Square Garden Theater in Manhattan, NY. Yeah, not the big room. And nah, not a big-ticket splashy finale, one befitting and honoring an eight-year marriage which ended in a
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Bob Arum is not a sentimental man, definitely not publicly. It fits—this is a “businessman” foremost. His lane is boxing promotion, and that in itself leaves less room for sentiment, for feelings, because in business, it is about numbers more than feelings. So, if I am feeling wistful and want to do a sum up
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On July 19, we get to see the oldest, ole reliable type of boxing promotion: we see if an old guy can still do it, turn up and turn in a performance that silences (for a spell) the ATG (All-Time Great) OG Father Time. Will Manny Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39 KOs), while fighting the younger welterweight
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