Jeff Pryor
28 articles · The Boxing Bulletin
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The Battle for Boxing: Cotto-Alvarez-Golovkin
By Jeff Pryor
With the boxing megafight to end all fights fully fizzled and fading from our unsatisfied palates, Floyd Mayweather calling Oscar De La Hoya out from retirement for a September showdown, and Manny…
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Miguel Cotto Stops Daniel Geale. What?s Next?
By Jeff Pryor
NEW YORK CITY ? Lineal middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (39-4) returned to the ring after a year of inactivity to defend his title for the first time in facing Daniel Geale (31-3)…
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Mayweather And Pacquiao: The Safe Bet
By Jeff Pryor
Manny Pacquiao has been knocked cold, collapsing to the canvas on his face. He laid there motionless in front of millions. A monster defanged. An idol toppled. It is from this dramatic…
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Deflate-Gate And The Pacquiao-Mayweather Super Bowl
By Jeff Pryor
Boxing by its very nature is a troubled sport. When the exact goal of an endeavour is to entice two grown men into viciously attacking one another, it?s evident the entire affair…
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The Missing Generation
By Jeff Pryor
What if an entire generation of boxers went missing? Imagine a world where the sport?s salivating spectators were left buying tickets to see aging wonders pushing 50 or past their prime dynamos…
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Miguel Cotto Gets Win Of His Life Over Sergio Martinez, Becomes Middleweight Champion
By Jeff Pryor
NEW YORK CITY ? Puerto Rican idol Miguel Cotto exploded onto the middleweight scene, taking out lineal undisputed champion Sergio Martinez at the Mecca of Boxing ? the famed Madison Square Garden…
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Bernard Hopkins Embarrasses, Drops Beibut Shumenov To Continue On His Absurd Way
By Jeff Pryor
The peerless Bernard Hopkins, still fighting at age 49, looked to unify two of the light heavyweight belts as he faced Beibut Shumenov of Kazakstan. He did just that, embarrassing his overmatched…
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Bad Milk: Bernard Hopkins Vs. Beibut Shumenov Preview And Prediction
By Jeff Pryor
Shortly after Beibut Shumenov was born in Kazakhstan, his aunt made a near fatal mistake and gave the new baby boy bad milk. The toddler turned blue, leaving his poor dad to…
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What next for Timothy Bradley, conqueror of Pacquiao and M?rquez?
By Jeff Pryor
You can't fault Tim Bradley for the way in which he beat Juan Manuel M?rquez on Saturday night. It was the blueprint that everyone agreed would work. The big question was whether…
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Tim Bradley Vs. You
By Jeff Pryor
You can?t fault Tim Bradley for the way in which he beat Juan Manuel Marquez the other night. It was the blueprint that everyone agreed would work. The big question was whether…
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The Tenth Man: Tavoris Cloud And Bernard Hopkins
By Jeff Pryor
There is history to be made, and there are echoes of the past. Tavoris Cloud is the tenth man in history -- the tenth to share a commonality with the other nine…
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Juan Manuel Marquez Dreams, Manny Pacquiao Sleeps
By Jeff Pryor
As the diminutive idol plummets face first into the mat, a country of 95,000,000 people watch in stunned silence? their breath stolen away by a Mexican fighting god. Manny Pacquiao lay motionless,…
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The Truth About Andre Berto
By Jeff Pryor
Andre Berto never was or will be what HBO tried to make him out to be.... Though the carefully maneuvered prizefighter has been a mainstay on the airwaves of the premium pay…
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“El Terrible” Night
By Jeff Pryor
As 11,112 souls filled the newly christened Barclays Center in Brooklyn for what would be its inaugural fight card, Erik Morales walked toward the ring, calm, serene, relaxed. Bigger bouts and louder…
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Manny Pacquiao And Timothy Bradley: Boxing’s Rebirth?
By Jeff Pryor
How often do you get to stand with a sheaf of paper in your hand that you know will ignite a firestorm? Michael Buffer certainly must have had a moments pause when…
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Paul Williams On The Ropes
By Jeff Pryor
The man was known as the most feared prize fighter in the sport for a time. The 6?1? southpaw, sporting the wingspan of a small passenger jet, was the kind of imposing…
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Bernard Hopkins: Silence Is Deadly
By Jeff Pryor
Bernard Hopkins is being eerily quiet in the lead up to his rematch with Chad Dawson. There are a few things that could mean... Perhaps the future Hall of Famer and legendary…
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Erik Morales: Tijuana Last Stand
By Jeff Pryor
What distinguishes the great Erik Morales from his contemporaries, the men he is most often compared -- Marco Antonio Barrera, Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez -- is that Morales never changed.…
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The Fight Of The Year. Next Year.
By Jeff Pryor
As the waning moments of 2011 slip away, the new year beckons forth a fresh horizon of matchmaking to tantalize and tease the boxing enthusiasts' fanciful minds. Looking forward to the staredowns…
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Five Boxing Things I’m Thankful For
By Jeff Pryor
Erik Morales: Was there ever a more willing warrior -- a guy who was more dead set on meeting fire with fire? From his teenage days in Tijuana, right up to a…