Jason Probst
17 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Note to Mayweather & Boxing: The Battle is Over, and You Lost
As the first boxing writer I know of to warn the sport about everything mixed martial arts was doing right, all I can say is, “I told you so.” Five years ago,…
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The Fight that Saved Boxing
What a relief that Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather is over, and boxing has been saved from a dreadful fate. It’s like the classic Steven Seagal ending. You don’t know exactly how…
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Neither Golden nor Pretty, but a buildup to a letdown
The buildup to the May 5 Floyd Mayweather-Oscar De La Hoya is so big I wonder if it?s just boxing?s way of compensating for the fact that there haven?t been any big…
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Memo to Santa — Boxing Needs Your Help
Okay, so, for like, the last two to three years, I’ve been complaining in this column about how mixed martial arts was kicking boxing’s collective butt and that the sport needed to…
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Pacquiao gobbles up Larios in impressive distance win
Once pegged as a brutally powerful if somewhat one-dimensional fighter, Manny Pacquiao showed further wrinkles in his game early Sunday morning in the Philippines, delivering a one-sided beating to Oscar Larios en…
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Not Quite Pay-Per-View, But a Live One Saturday Night
Boxing returns to an even keel off a bad last half of 2005, with a very solid matchup tonight in Manny Pacquiao vs. Erik Morales. I’m not sure it’s really pay-per-view quality,…
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Screams from the Balcony: The Corner’s “Just Say No” List
2005 was a tale of two half-years. The first six months were as good an interval the sport has seen in recent memory, packed with memorable fights and meaningful showdowns. Yet as…
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Old Dogs Turn New Tricks (Sometimes)
My boxing memory only reaches back to the end of the Carter Administration, with the rest relegated to tapes, print accounts, re-readings of Liebling, and mere hearsay. But in digging through the…
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The Heaviness of Lightweights
At the end of the day, pride going before the fall made a big difference in Diego Corrales' epic stoppage of Jose Luis Castillo. Banged like a drum and knocked down twice…
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Picking Fights and Fighters an Inexact Science
There?s a running joke between Angel Rodriguez and I about who has to write which side of our Head To Heads, where each of us picks a fighter and then advocates how…
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Morales Faces Down His Past in Pacquiao
It seems a lifetime ago, but in reality it?s a mere seven and a half years since Erik Morales burst on the scene with a performance that suggested a special kind of…
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New Year?s Belts: Out With The Alphabet Boys, And In With The Ring
There?s a running joke between Big Rick Robertson and I about which prospects I can and can?t claim to have named as ?sure things? and in my New Year?s resolutions for 2005,…
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
It was as though Manny Pacquiao had never happened. Using his boxing skills and patient craft, Marco Antonio Barrera stopped Paulie Ayala Saturday night and re-established himself as a player in the…
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Marquez-Pac Man A Bright Spot On The Horizon
The Corner doesn?t get overly excited for big fights, namely because a hard review of the track record of these sentiments makes for two piles in the palace of memories: fights that…
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PAC MAN IMPRRESSIVE IN DEFEAT OF BARRERA
As far as Barrera?s derailment, the reason for it is probably a combination of age, but moreover, the fact that Pac-Man?s style is the perfect one to exploit chinks in an aging…
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Ten Great Featherweight Fights
The 126-pound division has an impressive history with a cast of personalities and legendary stylists that hold their own with any other class in boxing. Who knows? Maybe Saturday?s showdown between Marco…
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The Neutral Corner
Barrera’s career is a stellar one, and he’ll be a strong candidate for the Hall of Fame when he retires. But with Morales moving up, his two toughest opponents are Marquez and…
