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• Amped for Canelo-Angulo? – March 8th, 2014

  The psychological and emotional experience of dealing with a loss can sometimes elevate a good fighter into a great one…
  
  

• One Bad President – March 6th, 2014

  Only four months after pummeling Chris Byrd the young contender got into an altercation with a call girl in a Las Vegas hotel…
  
  

• Song for Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston – February 25th, 2014

  “I was used to excitement. I was made for excitement,” Pacheco told me. “But that night was something else, something beyond excitement…”
  
  

• When Harry Met Ali (Documentary) – February 24th, 2014

  There are no shortage of documentaries on Muhammad Ali. Some are good, some are not so good, and some are better than most. The documentary "When Harry Met Ali" is better than most and is narrated by British boxing writer Harry Carpenter, who followed Ali from his earliest days to the end of his remarkable…
  
  

• Tyson Fury—Let Him Eat Cake – February 12th, 2014

  Fury’s on again/off again career is on again this Saturday when he meets Joey Abell at the Copper Box Arena in London, England...
  
  

• A Mythical Top Ten Pound-for-Pound – February 9th, 2014

  Every mode of fiction lends itself to boxing. Boxing is absolutely fundamental in a way no other sport is, but it is also combative and bloodthirsty...
  
  

• The 23 Steps to Boxing Enlightenment – February 7th, 2014

  Most champs—Matthew Saad Muhammad, Floyd Patterson and Johnny Tapia—were tortured souls who sought boxing psychotherapy…
  
  

• Winds of change? – February 4th, 2014

  Is the landscape of the Heavyweight division about to alter dramatically? With the WBC Championship now vacant and Bermaine Stiverne and Chris Arreola scheduled to re-match for the prestigious green belt we know that at least one of the four major blue ribbon titles is going to find its way back to American…
  
  

• We Be Crooks – January 29th, 2014

  
  
  

• The Five Best of 2013 – January 22nd, 2014

  In boxing, more than any other sport, the protagonists’ identities shift before your very eyes...
  
  

• Ten-Count for Jose Sulaiman – January 16th, 2014

  Sulaiman was an amateur boxer, trainer, promoter, judge and referee, before joining the World Boxing Council in 1968...
  
  

• Heavyweight Boone Kirkman Speaks – January 16th, 2014

  “Back in the dressing room, Zale shook my hand and said, ‘Hey, I like the way you fight, kid.’ All that made me feel good…”
  
  

• "Just wave Joe, you're beautiful baby. God bless ya Joe!" – January 10th, 2014

  Lennox Lewis simply isn’t celebrated enough. Now before you depart, mistaking this statement as a prelude to a tired hit-chasing argument about Lennox always beating Tyson – even in 1993 – or whooping Vitali in the never seen rematch, it points instead to his well timed retirement; faculties in…
  
  

• Hughie Fury—Force of Nature – January 9th, 2014

  I once held a focus pad for Hughie as a joke. "You really want me to hit it?" he laughed. "Go on" I replied...
  
  

• The Week That Was (Dec. 30, 2013 – Jan. 4, 2014) – January 6th, 2014

  Hooks, hooks and more hooks were Barthelemy’s staple as the man nicknamed “Kid Blast” tried to bulldoze his way to the title…
  
  

• Mike Tyson: Sign of the Times – January 4th, 2014

  Cus died a year before I won my first belt, in 1986. With him gone, I had less of an incentive to stay disciplined...
  
  

• On Target in Minneapolis – January 4th, 2014

  IBF super featherweight championship Argenis Mendez (21-3-1, 11 KOs) lost his title in controversial fashion to Rances Barthelemy (20-0, 13 KOs)...
  
  

• Rumble in the Tundra – January 2nd, 2014

  “There is nothing,” says Caleb Truax, “like the kind of commitment that boxing demands. I love every moment of it…”
  
  

• Peek Into the Soul of a Prizefighter—Part Two – December 26th, 2013

  “My favorite boxing books deal with the seamy underside of the sport—Budd Schulberg’s ‘The Harder They Fall’ and Leonard Gardner’s ‘Fat City’”…
  
  

• Alien Life? – December 22nd, 2013

  
  
  

• Brandon Rios's Career in Jeopardy Following Positive Test – December 14th, 2013

  Brandon Rios tested positive for a banned substance following his unanimous decision defeat to Manny Pacquiao on Nov. 23 in Macau. Rios has denied any wrongdoing. Rios tested positive for dimenthylamylamine in his post-fight urinalysis. Both he and Pacquiao, were randomly tested by the VADA, on five…
  
  

• Another Strange Month for British Heavyweights – December 10th, 2013

  When our heavyweights go bad it is in the smallest and saddest of ways, as shown by Herbie Hide’s depressingly needless fall from grace...
  
  

• A Foggy Day in London Town – December 10th, 2013

  No matter how powerful Mike Tyson’s message, London’s message to Michael is stay away, you're not welcome here…
  
  

• Wladimir Klitschko: The Case for the Defense – December 1st, 2013

  I rank Wladimir as a great heavyweight, one of fifteen that have ever lived, but I think Dempsey might have beaten him with that elusive, rhythm-breaking style...
  
  

• Mike Tyson Uncaged (1986) – November 29th, 2013

  The documentary "Mike Tyson Uncaged" dates from 1986, the year he became the youngest man in boxing history, at age 20, to win the heavyweight crown. No one knew at the time what was to come; it looked like he might he remain champion forever. But as unknown as his topsy-turvy future would turn out to…
  
  

• We Are the Hollow Men – November 28th, 2013

  Does anyone seriously believe Corrie Sanders and Lamon Brewster would have knocked out Dempsey, Louis, Marciano, Liston, Foreman or Ali?
  
  

• Mike Tyson on ObamaCare – November 28th, 2013

  It’s hard to believe that the folks who brought flying killer robots to the battlefield can’t create a website that works...
  
  

• The Week That Was (Nov. 18-24, 2013) – November 25th, 2013

  More than 7,000 miles from that bone-chilling scene in Las Vegas, Pacman made it clear that not only is he back, but he might be as good as ever…
  
  

• Pacquiao-Rios: Made in China – November 21st, 2013

  Not to worry. A diamond in a rhinestone world, Pacquiao has more options than Miss America after last call at a bachelor party…
  
  

• Best Heavyweight Jab? – November 20th, 2013

  
  
  

• The Undisputed Foof – November 20th, 2013

  
  
  

• A Legacy vs. 91 Seconds – November 19th, 2013

  
  
  

• “Undisputed Truth” Hits HBO – November 17th, 2013

  In the HBO special, “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” Tyson puts on a one-man show that is maddening, marvelous, painful, real, and ultimately redemptive....
  
  

• The Return of Andre Ward – November 15th, 2013

  No matter what Ward does, however skilled, however effective, however beautiful to watch, it will never be enough for some…
  
  

• It’s David vs. The Goliath – November 15th, 2013

  Quick and slick Ustinov is not. So of all the ranked fighters, he is probably the one Tua has the best chance against...
  
  

• The Long and Short of It – November 12th, 2013

  
  
  

• Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson – November 9th, 2013

  On November 9, 1996 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield met heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, who was defending the WBA title he won two months earlier by icing Bruce Seldon. Holyfield was 32-3 going in, having suffered losses to Riddick Bowe (twice) and…
  
  

• Golovkin vs. Stevens Preview – November 1st, 2013

  
  
  

• Maskaev vs. Williams Should Not Happen – October 31st, 2013

  This is a fight that should not be happening in the first place. Danny Williams should not be in there with Oleg Maskaev or anyone else…
  
  

• Mike Tyson’s Autobiography – October 23rd, 2013

  Once again perspective—or the lack thereof—rears its ugly head, this time in the form of a decapitated fish…
  
  

• Kings of The Ring—History of Heavyweight Boxing 1919-1990 – October 22nd, 2013

  
  
  

• One Punch from the Promised Land – October 19th, 2013

  Even Spinks’ mother told him, “You're crazy, Leon. You'll get wiped out.” The authors add, “Nobody disagreed. Not even Leon…”
  
  

• The Legacy “One” / The Marquez “Wynn” – October 18th, 2013

  Afterwards Bob Arum will comment that if the fight was held in the Eastern U.S. Marquez would have won 7 rounds to 5…
  
  

• When a Lion Roared – October 10th, 2013

  Lennox Lewis was now the undisputed champion of the world and no belts in trashcans or mental disintegrations could impugn his ascension...
  
  

• The Week That Was (October 1-6, 2013) – October 7th, 2013

  “I should have known better than to relax in the ring against a guy with that kind of power,” Rodriguez would say after the knockout…
  
  

• Bowe Establishes the Pattern – October 4th, 2013

  
  
  

• A King Will Be Crowned – October 3rd, 2013

  When Wladimir recently compared Povetkin's style to that of Mike Tyson, it was hard to hear him over the stifled guffaws of the pressmen retyping it...
  
  

• A modern day great? – September 30th, 2013

  When listing the greatest heavyweight fighters of all time it is customary to list the usual suspects: Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano among others but when the dust settles in Moscow on Saturday night it might be time to include a new name in that list, perhaps it will…
  
  

• Cus D'Amato Tribute – September 25th, 2013

  Constantine "Cus" D'Amato was one of the last in a long line of old school trainers. Born in the Bronx in 1908, after abandoning dreams of entering the priesthood, he embraced the dream of boxing. A small time operator working out of the Gramercy Gym, Cus knew his stuff and shared that knowledge with…
  
  

• On FOX Sports' “Being: Mike Tyson” – September 21st, 2013

  “When you were pure in your profession, with them black shoes and those black trunks, you had the simplicity of a killer…”