Sean Crose
269 articles · Boxing Insider
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Strong Viewership Numbers For Lopez-Lomachenko Card
By Sean Crose
Boxing hasn’t been doing much in the way of drawing in eyeballs lately. Although it’s been back on television and streaming services since summer, most of the fights have been smaller affairs…
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How Teofimo Lopez Cracked The Matrix
By Sean Crose
In H.G. Wells’ famous novel, The War of the Worlds, insanely high tech aliens come to earth with the intention of taking over. What’s more, there isn’t much of anything the people…
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High Hopes For Lomachenko-Lopez Television Ratings
By Sean Crose
Fans are rightly excited for this weekend’s Vasyl Lomachenko – Teofimio Lopez lightweight title throwdown. They’re particularly thrilled that the fight isn’t going to cost them close to a hundred bucks to…
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It’s Time For Boxing’s Circus Period To Come To An End
By Sean Crose
We should have known. All of us. Three years ago, when Conor McGregor of UFC fame signed to fight the one and only Floyd Mayweather, we all eventually cast our doubts aside…
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PBC On Fox: Ugas Bests Ramos For WBA Welterweight Title
By Sean Crose
The 25-4 Yordenis Ugas faced off against the 26-3-2 Abel Ramos at LA’s Microsoft Arena Sunday night for the WBA welterweight title. It was the main event of an unusual Sunday edition…
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PBC Preview: Ugas-Ramos
By Sean Crose
PBC on Fox will be airing a rare Sunday evening card on September 6th live from LA’s Microsoft Theater. The main event will present an interesting matchup between the 25-4 Yordenis Ugas…
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Keith Thurman – Boxing’s Enigma
By Sean Crose
Keith Thurman has always prided himself on being a fighter who goes his own way. This would seem normal enough if Thurman were part of, say, the UFC, where personality can be…
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Keith Thurman – Boxing’s Enigma
By Sean Crose
Keith Thurman has always prided himself on being a fighter who goes his own way. This would seem normal enough if Thurman were part of, say, the UFC, where personality can be…
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What’s More Frightening Than Mike Tyson? The Sharks Viewers Will Watch Him Face.
By Sean Crose
“I was scared all the way through,” Mike Tyson is quoted by the New York Post as saying, “and was just trying to get through it alive.” Tyson is referring to “Tyson…
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Mercito Gesta Spending Pandemic Feeding Front Line Workers
By Sean Crose
“It’s a little bit different,” lightweight Mercito Gesta says over the phone, “but I try to make the most out of it.” Like most everyone, Gesta is trying his best to survive…
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ESPN Offered Another Look At Mayweather-Pacquiao. It Was Enlightening.
By Sean Crose
Everyone was disappointed. Everyone called it a waste of money, an event that went down five years too late, a robbery, a hype job, and a snooze fest. Only, come to find…
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Arum Thinks Crawford-Pacquiao Could Happen
By Sean Crose
If COVID-19 has done anything, it’s given people plenty of time to think. Those in the boxing business are no exception. It wasn’t all that long ago, for instance, that a fight…
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Who Will Manny Pacquiao Fight Next?
By Sean Crose
It’s been over six months since Manny Pacquiao was in the ring. The Filipino icon’s last fight was in July, 2019, when he surprisingly (to some at least) bested WBA welterweight champion…
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Manny Pacquiao Celebrates 25 Years Of Pro Boxing
By Sean Crose
Muhammad Ali fought professionally for just over 21 years. It was a remarkable career up until the very end, when horrible losses to Trevor Berbick and Larry Holmes showed it was finally…
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Terence Crawford and Teofimo Lopez Win by Thrilling Stoppage
By Sean Crose
Madison Square Garden hosted an ESPN and Top Rank Promotions’ card Saturday night ; which featured undefeated WBO welterweight champ Terence Crawford. Omaha’s Crawford, 35-0, putting his belt on the line against…
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Andy Ruiz: “We Are Meditating, We Are Preparing”
By Sean Crose
“It’s amazing man,” said WBA, IBF, and WBO world heavyweight titlist Andy Ruiz, commenting on Saudi Arabia’s newly constructed Diriyah Arena. “It’s crazy how they built everything in a month and a…
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Rejuvenated Pacquiao Set To Return In First Part Of 2020
By Sean Crose
Manny Pacquiao is planning to return to the ring in the first part of 2020. As things stand, the iconic fighter ? who is also a Filipino Senator ? will be slipping…
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How Canelo Knocked Out The Myth Of ?The Perfect Record?
By Sean Crose
One thing that cannot be denied is that Floyd Mayweather Jr had himself one hell of a boxing career. Fifty wins. Zero defeats. A masterful defense. Underrated power. The ability, perhaps above…
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Golovkin Is Aging ? But There?s More To It Than That
By Sean Crose
Gennady Golovkin found himself in a war this past weekend when he battled Sergiy Derevyanchenko at Madison Square Garden for the vacant IBF middleweight title. Golovkin, the man who not so long…
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Is Errol Spence Jr Boxing?s Next Household Name?
By Sean Crose
As far as overall popularity goes, boxing arguably lives or dies by household names. Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson, Ray Leonard, Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, such names have attracted interest, not…