ring observations

They never fought in the ring but all time great heavyweight champions Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko had an interesting confrontation today on Twitter… Lennox Lewis @LennoxLewis 18h Professional boxers should NOT be fighting in the Olympics against amateur fighters. Someone could get seriously hurt. You dont PLAY boxing like ...

Kazakstan Sports Portal asked me some questions about the Gennadiy Golovkin’s successful performance vs Sergey Derevyanchenko in New York on Saturday night… I wanted to ask you to answer a few questions on the Golovkin-Derevyanchenko fight. – Rate the performance of Golovkin, is it really weak? – It seems that ...

Want to know what it’s like to get in a ring and fight the eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao without having to actually do it? This feature talks to several opponents of the left-handed all time boxing dynamo and gleans details, anecdotes and insights on the unique experience…   FACING ...

By Scoop Malinowski Recently a former boxer named Tommy Rainone stated that Howard Cosell disassociated himself from pro boxing because of a sense of immense disgust while announcing on ABC Network the farcical one-sided mismatch of World Heavyweight champion Larry Holmes vs Randall “Tex” Cobb. I disagreed with that over-simplified ...

  By Scoop Malinowski It’s a belief I have been sparring with for quite some time. After much deliberation and analyzing the evidence, I’ve come to the realization: Manny Pacqiuao is the greatest fighter of all time. Unpopular, cutting edge decisions are hard to make. It’s easier to go with ...

By Scoop Malinowski Floyd Mayweather should be satisfied with his 50-0 boxing career career and the hundreds of millions he has earned for punching for a living. He should be happily retired and admiring, enjoying and respecting the current gladiators who carry the sport into the future. But Floyd Mayweather ...

Ellerbe: Floyd is retired and not interested in a Pacquiao rematch for over a $100,000,000. Translation: We’ll wait. Floyd will fight Pacquiao again if he agrees to play soft and throw the fight because Floyd is a bu$ine$$man not a warrior and doesn’t want to get hurt or end up ...

By Scoop Malinowski We have to look beneath the surface when analyzing fights today. Who is the money fighter? Who is the B side? Who needs the payday after two years of inactivity? Who is the A side draw franchise who is part of the long term business plan? Manny ...

  By Scoop Malinowski Pernell Whitaker. Even his name flowed like the paint brush of an artist. And boy, could the Norfolk, Virginia boxer create artistry in the ring. The four weight division champion – lightweight to light middleweight – died last week when he was hit by a car ...

  By Scoop Malinowski It’s obvious by now that Deontay Wilder is afraid to fight Dillian Whyte and his protectors Al Haymon, Shelly Finkel and Mauricio Sulaiman have no confidence in Wilder to beat Whyte so the secret agenda is to duck Whyte forever. Whyte has been the WBC no. ...