External Will Keith Thurman Ever Find Legitimacy? With the boxing world's attention turning to the next big fight weekend two weeks from now, it's time to start examining whether Keith ?One … Tue, 14 Jun 2016
External Pacquiao-Bradley: Bob Arum's No-Win Situation Boxing is unique among the sports in that the outcome of a fight is less about the combatants in the ring and more about the cloak-and-dagge… Tue, 29 Mar 2016
External Miguel Cotto-Saul Alvarez: The Only Preview You Need In the classic NES game Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, an NPC famously gave the advice ?If all else fails, use fire.? All else has failed … Fri, 20 Nov 2015
External Historical Fight Night: Gatti-Arguello II, Edwin Valero vs. Salvador Sanchez Three weeks ago, controversy erupted at the Historical Fight Night Arena in San Dimas, California, as Arturo Gatti defeated Alexis Arguello … Sat, 27 Jun 2015
External Vic Darchinyan, Retire Before You Get Killed Vic Darchinyan (40-7-1, 29 KOs) takes on Jesus Cuellar (26-1, 20 KOs) from the StubHub Center in Carson, California on Saturday night in wha… Thu, 04 Jun 2015
External The Day the NBA Murdered Boxing: On Chris Paul and Pacquiao-Mayweather By itself, boxing could probably have survived the all-hype, no-substance boring fight that happened last night between Floyd Mayweather Jr.… Mon, 04 May 2015
External PBC: Possible Business Catastrophe: The Southpaw Well, the initial fight card for Al Haymon?s Premier Boxing Champions has come and gone, and?meh. Sure, it drew three million viewers, but t… Thu, 12 Mar 2015
External What If Manny Pacquiao Stayed At Featherweight? Just a notch under two months from now, Manny Pacquiao takes on Floyd Mayweather to finally settle the argument of which long-past-his-prime… Wed, 04 Mar 2015
External Floyd Mayweather Will Beat Manny Pacquiao: The Southpaw I wish I could say I had news to report in this column, a fresh perspective, something that would blow the doors wide open on the Pacquiao-M… Thu, 26 Feb 2015
External Mayweather-Pacquiao: Hulkamania Vs The Ultimate Warrior Last night WWE: Monday Night Raw rolled into my hometown of Denver, Colorado. As a youth, there was nothing better then Saturday morning wre… Wed, 04 Feb 2015
External Matthysse-Provodnikov, 2015 Fight of the Year: The Southpaw Rumors have begun to float around the edges of the boxing world that Lucas Matthysse (36-3, 34 KOs) may be set to fight Ruslan Provodnikov (… Fri, 16 Jan 2015
External Karma?s A Bitch, Mauricio Herrera: The Southpaw In the words of John Riggins, ?I?m bored, I?m broke?and I?m back.? Welcome back to The Southpaw, the column with a better strength-of-schedu… Sat, 03 Jan 2015
External Mayweather-Maidana Mayhem: The Only Preview You Need Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KOs) and Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) square off at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada Saturday night on pay… Thu, 11 Sep 2014
External What If Oscar De La Hoya Beat Floyd Mayweather? On May 5, 2007, in front of a sold-out crowd in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather Jr. put an end to the championship run of the legendary ?Golden … Tue, 09 Sep 2014
External Manny Pacquiao: Why Floyd Mayweather Is A Better Champion What makes a great champion? If you?re Manny Pacquiao, it would seem to be collecting belts and making up false achievements for yourself. I… Wed, 20 Feb 2013
External Manny Pacquiao, All-Time Great Con Man: The Southpaw Rumors floating around the magical Intertubes would have you believe that Manny Pacquiao (54-4-2, Give Or Take Three Or Four Gift Decisions)… Fri, 14 Sep 2012
External Punching Your Sister in the Face: The Southpaw Last week, on the official ESPN Friday Night Fights Facebook page, the question came up of how meaningful the performance of the women?s tea… Fri, 24 Aug 2012
External Nonito Donaire-Toshiaki Nishioka: Small Men, Big Stakes Did we, in the past year, forget that Nonito Donaire (29-1, 18 KOs) was a top-ten pound-for-pound fighter? To hear the boxing media tell it,… Thu, 23 Aug 2012
External FNF Year End Awards: The Southpaw How do you give awards to a year that was so completely disappointing from start to finish that award-winning performances were few and far … Fri, 17 Aug 2012
External ?To Hell With Professional Objectivity?: The Southpaw Last year, I took a slow news week to examine the fighters who, even though my job requires me to be objective and stick to covering the fac… Fri, 03 Aug 2012
