Matt McGrain
55 articles · Boxing.com
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Jerwin Ancajas Dominates All-Filipino Contest In California
Filipino Jerwin Ancajas continued an unbeaten streak that stretches back to 2012 tonight with victory over countryman Jonas Sultan in Fresno, California. The world?s #3 super-flyweight according to the TBRB moved to…
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In Britain, Joshua vs. Parker is More Than Just a Unification Fight
It is rare, even unheard of, for the vision of the boxing world to be filled so completely by Great Britain. The second visit of Muhammad Ali to these shores, it is…
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Inoue Treads Water, Yaegashi Betrayed by Old Legs in Japan
Another big weekend of boxing has passed in Japan but it seems the boxing juggernaut that is The Land of the Rising Sun is losing steam. Pound-for-pounder and super-flyweight number one Naoya…
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The Fifty 50 Greatest Welterweights of all Time Part Three: 30-21
These fighters are special. Among them are some of the greatest fighters in history; pound-for-pound monsters capable of competing with anyone on this list. The reason they wash up in the twenties…
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Stacked Japanese Cards Includes Late FOTY Contender
An extraordinary day of boxing in Japan today produced a desperately late contender for the fight of the year as many of Japan?s best fighters gathered under two separate roofs to put…
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Why Choice Of Berto For Mayweather Is OK
Writing about the emerging news that Andre Berto had been selected as Floyd Mayweather?s September twelfth opponent, the Sweet Science?s own Frank Lotierzo deemed anyone who buys the fight on pay-per-view ?a…
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Donnie Nietes UD12 Francisco Rodriguez Jnr.
Donnie ?Snake? Nietes (out of Philippines, now 36-1-4) asserted his dominance as the world?s #1 108lb fighter today with a tactically brilliant if narrow defeat of ironman Francisco ?Titanium? Rodriguez (out of…
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Attention, Fight of the Year Candidate To Unfold Saturday
It is possible that the deathly quiet surrounding this weekend?s showdown between the world?s number one light-flyweight and the former world?s #1 minimumweight in Cebu, The Philippines, is causing even tried and…
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#MayPac: The Impossible Waltz
?I wanted to give the fans what they wanted to see ? they wanted to see a toe-to-toe battle. Fans don?t want to see me moving. They want to see me coming…
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Thai Fighter Ruenroeng Beats Shiming in Macau
So to Macao, China, the world?s true capital of sin, a pit of fervour in chance that dwarfs the take in Las Vegas weekly, a pie from which boxing, in the form…
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Naoya Inoue: Fighter of the Year
Omar Narvaez was the #1 super-flyweight in the world, a southpaw, and 43-1. Naoya Inoue, on the other hand, was 7-0? While most of America slept and as Europe re-organized itself in…
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Mini-War in the Philippines
They dogged it out head-to-head in the old-fashioned way as the referee looked on, content to let them maul and tear? Francisco Rodriguez Jr., the victor in the 2014 Fight of the…
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The 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time Part Ten: 10-1
For boxing people, the great heavyweights, specifically the ones they patronize most of all, help define who they are as boxing people? The internet is awash with top ten at heavyweight. As…
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The Beast of Ukraine
At 6?3 and having apparently carried up to 209 lbs. as an amateur, Oleksander Usyk might turn out to be the fighter the classicists have been waiting for? Oleksander Usyk continued his…
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The 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time Part Nine: 20-11
In the end, by my calculations, there are only fourteen heavies in the history of the ring that are truly deserving of being labelled great? #20 Jersey Joe Walcott (51-18-2) Jersey Joe…
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Cruiserweight Shock in Russia
The cerebral ?Diablo? is one of boxing?s more intelligent talents and one who is able to find opportunities to punch where others are static? Grigory Drozd clearly defeated strapholder Krzysztof Wlodarczyk in…
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The 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time Part Eight: 30-21
There comes a time on any such list when, although not quite great themselves, the fighters considered are capable of brutalizing even the best? Entering the top thirty we find that it…
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Juan Francisco Estrada Cracks P4P and Giovani Segura
Segura?s performance confirmed his status as one of boxing?s definitive heart-fuelled warriors post-Gatti? Juan Francisco Estrada (now 27-2) cracked one of the toughest nuts in boxing last night in Mexico City, breaking…
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The Kingship of Roman Gonzalez
Breaking Yaegashi is not something you can do in nine minutes. He did not clinch, he did not run and instead, at the bell, he was fighting back? Roman Gonzalez (now 40-0)…
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Two Wars, One Weekend (It?s THIS Weekend)
When I was told Joe Frazier had liver cancer the first words out of my mouth were ?don?t be surprised if he beats it?? Simply put, Roman Gonzalez (39-0) is one of…
