Ordinarily, this would be a celebratory stomp, a delighted and enthused take pointing out something good, two (fairly) young fighters, coming together and facing off before they “had to.” But my mood got altered a bit when I learned the founder of this site didn’t make the cut for a media credential at the Saturday, […]
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God, it was so promising. Material from an entrepreneur tends to be. Garry Jonas, big Garry, a personality plus, had me from the get-go when he laid out his rough to-do list at the end of 2021. I was in; it was just a matter of deciding on money. Fun fact: Jonas, who’d invested in
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Top Rank is beginning an alliance with streaming giant DAZN, and word dropped Monday that it is a multi-year deal. A presser at NY’s Madison Square Garden ran to herald the new platform deal for Bob Arum and company, and we heard from the 94-year-old impresario himself only via tape. For good reason, it turns
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BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing executive Mike Vazquez checked in with FightsATW to shed more light on various goings-on within his ascendant organization. Word dropped Wednesday that BKB will be enjoying the talent of Cuba-born Olympian Yuriorkis Gamboa, age 44, for a spell. What light could Vazquez shed, who is a car guy in addition to being
If Puerto Rico’s Subriel Matias felt put off by the temp in Brooklyn, as he went through the paces at the famed and fabled Gleason’s Gym in Dumbo, he didn’t betray it on Wednesday. It was 45 but felt a bit more wintry with low sun and some wind. On Saturday, Matias will put his
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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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