Denis Lebedev is a cruiserweight OG and has put out word that he’s opponent hunting for a Sept. 7 bout in Russia. We have a volunteer, one Alexey Zubov, who fights out of the new Kronk in Detroit. The Russian native tells us he’s in shape and ready f...
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The Gabriel 'Tito' Bracero story is one that is movie worthy. Kid is a bit of a wild child, runs with the wrong crowd, but boxing is there to rein in him in. But the streets win out, for a spell, kid gets collared, does time. Five years, Bracero did....
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WBA, IBF, IBO junior middleweight world champion Jarrett Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) has emerged as one of the breakout stories of 2018, hasn’t he? The soft spoken hitter from the Maryland region isn’t a shot talker, he just enters the ring thumping, and doe...
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He is 41 years old, past his prime time as an athlete, and there is no shortage of folks out there who think Tomasz Adamek shouldn’t be gloving up. At 53-5, the Polish fighting fixture, who turned pro in 1999, won crowns at light heavyweight and jum...
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The guy is one of those types that makes the adage “age is just a number” applicable, and not the hopeful but oft erroneous declaration made by people with creakier joints than they’d like, fueled by more hope than faith. Former world champion Luis...
In a recent interview with BoxingScene.com, Gennady Golovkin's trainer, Abel Sanchez, made claims that their upcoming opponent, Canelo Alvarez, isn’t pulling his promotional weight. The "ginger" is acting the diva in the lead-up to the Sept. 15 remat...
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Abel Sanchez is one of the busiest trainers in the sport. His stable is considerable and it is topped by the middleweight ace Gennady Golovkin, the Kazahk sportsman who is looking to show the boxing world that he, not Canelo Alvarez, is the current t...
Main Events is a family shop. Company CEO Kathy Duva keeps the circle tight, and no, their roster isn’t beefy along the lines of the ones that Top Rank and Golden Boy can boast about. Duva’s Main Events is a lean machine, and so when one of the upper...
You, yes you out there are getting fatter and in the moment happier sampling delicacies galore, be it roast beast or mama’s prize-winning lasagne or Uncle Gronk’s fall off the bone ribs…and c’mon, you are not turning down the a la mode option when pi...
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If pressed and asked to choose between Vasyl Lomachenko and Terence Crawford to pick your number one pound-for-pound fighter, who would the man who promotes both choose? Top Rank's CEO, guides the careers of both boxers. Both of them are under consid...
Matt Korobov had a reasonably busy 2016, for this age, fighting three times. Then, 2017 came and just about went, and Korobov stayed on the sidelines, making him a somewhat forgotten figure at 160. The Russian born hitter, who makes his home in West...
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Holiday plans are being finalized as we speak, with the forgetful and the procrastintaors in sweaty-brow mode, running to the pharmacy to score gift cards to Target and the like… In the boxing sphere, planning is happening too, with maybe a few hours...
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Sergey Derevyanchenko is a throwback sort, and that type of fighter can get lost in the shuffle, now and again, because loudness and brashness and noisemaking gets rewarded these days, with social media mud-slinging getting media coverage as much or...
WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders is quite the character. We know this, we’ve seen him in action, heard his spicy chatter over the last few years, and even seen it in action, from his blood-line. I don't think he will be getting any less i...
