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  • Fight of the Day # 4: Roy Jones Jr vs Montell Griffin II

    Revenge is best served with a left hook! Keeping in the spirit of rematches of controversial fights and short fights here is Roy Jones Jr going up against Montell Griffin. For those unfamiliar, Griffin was the first man to “defeat Roy Jones” as a pro when they met in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Griffin had…

  • Fight of the Day #3: Kendall Holt vs Ricardo Torres II

    I missed a day yesterday so I chose a short fight to catch up. Whatever you do, please do not blink when watching this fight. Bombs away from the start Kendall Holt of Paterson, New Jersey and Colombia’s Ricardo Torres met in a WBO 140 lb. title tilt in 2008 in Las Vegas. This was…

  • Fight of the Day # 2: Muhammad Ali vs George Chuvalo II

    Today I watched the Muhammad Ali and George Chuvalo rematch from 1973. The fight took place in Vancouver Canada and was roughly seven years after their 1966 encounter in Toronto where Ali still the champion defeated Chuvalo by unanimous decision. Having seen that fight several times on ESPN Classic its hard to forget the hard…

  • Fight of the Day#1: Sonny Liston vs Floyd Patterson

    In the spirit of watching more fights and writing more I have decided to do a series that I hope to contribute daily to by watching a fight, posting the link, and writing about it. I watched the pair of heavyweight title fights in the early 1960’s that saw Sonny Liston win the heavyweight world…

  • Australia’s George Kambosos Pulls Off The Upset At The Garden

    In a fight that has been over six months in the making, George Kambosos dropped Teofimo Lopez in the opening round and won split decision to take over the lightweight division. Originally scheduled for June 2021 in Miami, Lopez tested positive for COVID-19 and after eight date changes and a change in promoters and broadcasters…

  • Mikaela Mayer Victorious in All Action Brawl in Vegas

    Women’s boxing has been gaining a lot of steam from recent promotional pushes on platforms like DAZN and ESPN+. There have been more frequent main events, touted title fights/unification fights, and some very exciting scraps when the best are paired and meet in the ring. Last night Mikaela Mayer the IBF champion at 130 lbs.…

  • Canelo Alvarez vs Caleb Plant: Quick Prediction

    Fight night is fast approaching for Canelo Alvarez who is on the path to unifying all four major titles at super middleweight. On November 6th he will face IBF titleholder Caleb Plant of the United States in a fight that has been in the making for some time now. There were discussions in 2019 to…

  • October Boxing Round Up

    After a pretty dire series of events continued to put a damper on the boxing world, the last few weeks have been pretty spectacular. I last covered the heavyweight championship highlights that saw Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury prevail in their high stakes match ups. In the previous two weeks I went without an update…

  • Tyson Fury Knocks Out Deontay Wilder in a Great Night for Boxing!

    Boxing has been living on the fringes of the American sports universe for some time now but the performance that Wilder and Fury put on has come front center for the sports world. A trilogy fight that many fight fans saw as a roadblock to total unification and a foregone conclusion after the second fight…

  • Oleksandr Usyk Stuns Anthony Joshua in Heavyweight Showdown!

    I had said leading up to the fight that Usyk was a serious banana peel for the Joshua vs Tyson Fury showdown but not many predicted what unfolded. Usyk overcame a twenty-one pound and four inch reach disadvantage to win a dominant unanimous decision of scores of 115-113, 116-112 and 117-111. This author scored the…