Corey Erdman

Canelo-Charlo Provides The Atmosphere Only Big Fights Can Produce

by Corey Erdman - Every generation of boxing fans has its one big star, its fighter whose events are signpost moments in their lives, the way Super Bowls are for football fans. You remember where you were when The Big Game is happening if you’re an N...

William Zepeda Continues To Put Up Mind-Blowing Punch Stats

By Corey Erdman - After lasting just five and a half rounds with William Zepeda, Mercito Gesta’s face looked like he’d been clobbered with a baseball bat. His body must have felt like it too, as despite the protests of the courage inside of him to st...

Mbilli Makes Statement In Knockout Win, Aims To Land Canelo Shot

By Corey Erdman - It’s early in the morning on fight day, a time when most people taking part in a fight that night might be enjoying some extra rest, but Christian Mbilli is already in the lobby of his hotel in the Gatineau, Quebec countryside, wate...

Mbilli Continues To Build "Solide" Buzz In Pursuit Of 168 Title

By Corey Erdman - When Christian M’Billi was a child, he dreamed of having a profession for which he could simply train all the time. For others, the rigors of exercise were a means to an end, a requisite for achieving one’s athletic or aesthetic goa...

The Usyk-Dubois Low Blow Debate Continues

By Corey Erdman - As if the heavyweight division needed another strange controversy to create further debate about who is, or is deserving to be considered the division’s best, we were served one up this past weekend. Heading into Saturday’s bout aga...

Usyk and Dubois Battle In Unlikely Heavyweight Title Bout

By Corey Erdman - If you would have logged on to Twitter or your favorite boxing message board around November of 2020 and suggested that one day, Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois would fight one another for the unified heavyweight title, you probabl...

Joshua On Helenius: “I Don’t Really Like Many Heavyweight Boxers, But He’s Cool”

By Corey Erdman - Moments after Robert Helenius was returned to consciousness under the care of the ringside medical team, the man who knocked him out, Anthony Joshua, was on the microphone thanking him for saving the show. It was the second time in...

Jake Paul Threads Marketing And Matchmaking Needle In Nate Diaz Win

By Corey Erdman - Both Jake Paul and his brother Logan Paul had appearances on pay-per-view on Saturday night. As Jake was arriving at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX in an actual tank ahead of his boxing match against UFC legend Nate Diaz...

Terence Crawford Finally Catches The Big Fish

By Corey Erdman - When boxing matches are referred to as “50/50 fights,” quite often it’s at the very least a slight exaggeration. The cruel reality of the sport of boxing is that most fights that take place are as far from a 50/50 proposition as wil...

Keyshawn Davis: “I'm Winning A World Title Next Year”

By Corey Erdman - A week out from his ninth professional fight, Keyshawn Davis finds himself in the middle, and at the forefront of a lot of different conversations. Training in Colorado Springs, his old Olympic stomping grounds, the silver medalist...

Jaron 'Boots' Ennis’ Diversity Of Destruction

By Corey Erdman - When Jaron Ennis was working his way up the boxing ladder, fighting in Philadelphia venues like the Pennsylvania Sheet Workers Union Hall and the 2300 Arena, the fights followed a familiar pattern, as they tend to when talented pros...

Anderson Receives Valuable Experience From Former Champion Martin

By Corey Erdman - Boxing has a handful of familiar career arcs, patterns that fighters’ careers tend to follow that can often reliably inform matchmaking. A common one is the former world champion fading, slowly working their way down the card from c...

Is Edgar Berlanga Ready For Munguia And Golovkin?

By Corey Erdman - The public perception of Edgar Berlanga has varied quite a bit over the course of his young career. Like many fighters of his era, his entire professional career has been broadcast, from early days on CBS Sports Network to an extend...

Cruel Summer: Derevyanchenko's Hard Luck Continues In Loss To Munguia

By Corey Erdman - It’s hard not to root for Sergey Derevyanchenko.  Although the sport of boxing is a business—it’s prizefighting, after all—there is an idyllic world observers can slip into from time to time in which fighters are fighting only for c...

Munguia: Not Sure What Charlo's Plan is Moving Forward, But I'm Ready To Face Him

By Corey Erdman - In May of 2018, Gennadiy Golovkin was in search of a new opponent after Canelo Alvarez was suspended for testing positive for a banned substance. As one of the most coveted fights in the sport at the time, fighters in the neighborho...