Brett Conway
14 articles · MaxBoxing.com
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Boxing?s Biggest Losers: Pound-for-Pound
By Brett Conway
Waiting for my ?Ring? magazine renewal to kick in, I have been stuck with the May 2009 issue proclaiming the ?upcoming? Hatton-Pacquiao fight. I have read it cover to cover many times…
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I Remember 2008
By Brett Conway
I remember boxing in 2008, but my memory runs backwards. I remember December 11 when in New Jersey cruiserweights Tomasz Adamek and Steve Cunningham showed the heavyweights how titles should be fought…
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De La Hoya Still Has a Future in the Ring
By Brett Conway
In my prediction for the Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao bout, I wrote ?although De La Hoya is the bigger man, he has been showing his age and his semi-retirement doesn't help.…
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Yo Sam Choi?s Death Means New Life
By Brett Conway
Of my time spent writing about boxing, last Thursday was the darkest. On that day, former WBC light flyweight champion Yo Sam Choi died. I have written before on death in the…
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The Best of the Year: 2007?s Logos, Ethos, and Pathos
By Brett Conway
When the end of the boxing year arrives and it?s time to pick the best of the best, I have a difficult time. I?m not one of those folks standing up on…
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Will Penalosa Win the Triple Crown?
By Brett Conway
Behind on points, chasing a fighter content to keep him at bay with a jab and shoeshine combinations, Gerry Penalosa kept plugging away and didn’t waver from his plan: shots to the…
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Hatton, Illogic, and a Fight of the Year
By Brett Conway
Corrales-Castillo I has become the gold standard of boxing. Ricky Hatton hopes on Saturday he and Jose Luis Castillo can measure up. ?Castillo?s fight against Diego Corrales was one of the fights…
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With the Big Fight Over, What’s Next?
By Brett Conway
Now that Floyd Mayweather has beaten Oscar De La Hoya for a junior middleweight title, he’s off to the talk shows, appearing on Jay Leno and Craig Ferguson and acting like the…
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P4P: Sugar Ray Points from Pacquiao to Cotto
By Brett Conway
With names like Mikkel Kessler, Rafael Marquez and Juan Manuel Marquez making cases for inclusion on the pound for pound list; with Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather staging an event…
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Golden Boy Launches a ?Fearless? Protest for Penalosa
By Brett Conway
The stink from the scoring of the Gerry Penalosa-Daniel Ponce de Leon WBO super bantamweight championship match did not go away. Its aroma was discussed in newspapers and in boxing web forums.…
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No More in 2007
By Brett Conway
With the New Year upon us, I can’t help but write a column that looks forward to boxing in 2007. I figure I can approach this in one of two ways. I…
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No More in 2007
By Brett Conway
With the New Year upon us, I can?t help but write a column that looks forward to boxing in 2007. I figure I can approach this in one of two ways. I…
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Who Is the Pound-for-Pound King (P.S.)?
By Brett Conway
With Floyd Mayweather fighting a few weeks ago and sparking a pound-for-pound debate and with Manny Pacquiao fighting a couple of weeks ago and sparking another pound-per-pound debate, I’m not surprised that…
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With those Sugar Ray Points, Pacquiao Is the New Pound-Per-Pound King
By Brett Conway
How can we determine the pound-per-pound king? It used to be easy. We just had to wait for Sugar Ray Leonard to announce his comeback; for us to go through our boxing…