External A History of the Pretty Boy: From Tony Janiro to Ryan Garcia In Raging Bull, Jake LaMotta (as played, in ferocious Method mode, by Robert De Niro) discusses plans for his next opponent, the handsome we… Wed, 10 Feb 2021
External Power Surge: Gervonta Davis and That Elusive Star Quality There were two explosions when Gervonta “Tank” Davis mollywhopped Leo Santa Cruz on Halloween night at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. … Sat, 14 Nov 2020
External Rat Bastards: Roberto Medina Like the raw and lawless frontier territories of Oklahoma or the Far West in the nineteenth century, boxing has often functioned as an open … Wed, 16 Sep 2020
External A Dry Season: The Last Comeback of Joe Frazier Somehow, they found themselves connected yet again. Years after the Thrilla in Manila, Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali mounted quixotic, perhap… Thu, 20 Aug 2020
External Rat Bastards: Thomas (Tommy Ryan) Eboli Before he became just another chalk outline on the cratered streets of 1970s New York City, Thomas Eboli (aka Tommy Ryan) was part of the sh… Wed, 29 Jul 2020
External Rat Bastards: Jack Kearns This is the first installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Rat Bastards series, which takes a look at the fight game’s greatest miscreants. *** “Hell… Tue, 21 Jul 2020
External Shoot the Moon: The Title Reign of Larry Holmes Part VIII (Muhammad Ali) October 2, 1980 He is having trouble sleeping. The long, long nights bleed away. From time to time this former chatterbox slurs his words. O… Thu, 09 Jul 2020
External All That Terrible Blood: Bobby Chacon, Bazooka Limon, Atonement “There she was, that little cutie. All that terrible blood. The blood just ran off. She looked pretty. I loved her so long—I only had love f… Thu, 04 Jun 2020
External Without Stopping: Aaron Pryor, Champion at Last By March 1980, not even Muhammad Ali could escape the wrath of “The Hawk.” Aaron Pryor, then an undefeated lightweight contender who inspire… Tue, 12 May 2020
External Shoot the Moon: The Title Reign of Larry Holmes Part VII, Scott LeDoux This is the seventh installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** July 7, 1980 For the good… Fri, 13 Mar 2020
External Double Impact: Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury II Preview After more than a year of infomercials, mismatches, network cloak-and-dagger, promotional shell games, and the kind of 24-7 hype that makes … Fri, 21 Feb 2020
External Standoff: The Story of Jose Stable, from Contender to Inmate It was not revenge—not exactly—that motivated Jose Stable during his long march toward Emile Griffith and a shot at the welterweight champio… Thu, 16 Jan 2020
External Sand and Fog: Anthony Joshua Avenges his Loss to Andy Ruiz, Jr. It was over, more or less, at the weigh-in. When Andy Ruiz Jr. scaled 283 pounds the day before his scheduled rematch with Anthony Joshua, h… Tue, 10 Dec 2019
External What Some Might Call Desire: Regis Prograis-Josh Taylor Preview When Josh Taylor and Regis ?Rougarou? Prograis signed contracts in 2018 binding them to the World Boxing Super Series, they assured themselv… Sat, 26 Oct 2019
External Grand Illusions: Errol Spence, Jr.‒Shawn Porter Preview Just two and a half years ago, the PBC pettifogging machine announced a welterweight tournament, of sorts, that promised to bring some elusi… Thu, 26 Sep 2019
External Shoot the Moon: The Title Reign of Larry Holmes Part VI, Leroy Jones March 31, 1980 ?Never being happy isn?t the same as being unhappy. Is it??? Montgomery McNeil, Fame In the weeks leading up to his title def… Tue, 24 Sep 2019
External 24-7 Fantastamatic: A Bloody Tyson Fury Defeats Otto Wallin When Otto Wallin was born, in 1990, professional boxing was still outlawed in Sweden, a country that turned its back on blood sports barely … Wed, 18 Sep 2019
External Desert Devils: Andy Ruiz Jr. and Anthony Joshua Meet in Saudi Arabia It is no easy task for boxing to set off a firestorm during the dog days of summer, but Eddie Hearn, head of Matchroom, managed this improba… Sat, 17 Aug 2019
External Shoot the Moon: The Title Reign of Larry Holmes Part V, Lorenzo Zanon This is the fifth installment in Carlos Acevedo?s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** February 3, 1980 Seems no o… Tue, 25 Jun 2019
External Situation Normal: On Anthony Joshua?Andy Ruiz Jr. More than thirty years have passed since the last heyday of the jiggly heavyweight. In the 1980s, when boxing mirrored the ?Greed is Good? e… Fri, 31 May 2019
