Scoop Malinowski

  By Scoop Malinowski Al Haymon’s most defining contribution to boxing is his profound protective nature. His most treasured boxers are protected like a mother bear protects it’s baby cubs. Whether it’s forcing a heavy puncher to wear “pillows”, issuing a $5m bonus to an opponent to play soft, refusing ...

By Scoop Malinowski Status:  WBO welterweight champion. Record is 36-0, 27 KO’s. Ht: 5-8  Wt: 147 DOB:  September 28, 1987  In: Omaha, Nebraska First Boxing Memory:  “My first fight, I knocked the guy out in 26 seconds. (What punch?) Right hook.” Boxing Inspirations:  “Roy Jones Jr., Floyd Mayweather.” First Famous ...

By Scoop Malinowski I have been following and covering boxing since the 1980s and can’t recall one time when the trainer of the losing fighter in a close, controversial superfight publicly later admitted his charge lost. Until Freddie Roach said in August of 2015 and February 2016 that in his ...

By Scoop Malinowski WBO Super Featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko called out Gervonta Davis to a 2018 showdown this week. Though Davis held the IBF Super Featherweight title, Lomachenko believes he is being protected by his manager Floyd Mayweather. “FloydMayweather It would have been an honor to fight you in your ...

By Scoop Malinowski The last major fight of 2017 takes place this weekend in Laval, Quebec with a prominent champion attempting to thwart a hungry and driven contender looking to regain a world title. It’s a classic boxer vs puncher styles contrast, a matador vs raging bull contest of wills. ...

By Scoop Malinowski Many of the great champions of boxing have looked unbeatable but Vasyl Lomachenko looks not only unbeatable but impossible to beat. Never in boxing history have we seen such a creative force of an artist in the boxing ring like Lomachenko who seems capable of absolutely anything, ...

Note: I originally wrote this article for Boxing Insider in 2013. By Scoop Malinowski Only in America does cowardice pay off in professional boxing. Here is an unofficial timeline compilation, including all of Floyd Mayweather’s massive inventory of excuses since late 2009 to relentlessly avoid a world championship superfight against ...

By Scoop Malinowski Well, it’s official now but we knew this was coming all along. The Alabama Heavyweight Champion Deontay Wilder is going to price himself out of fighting World Heavyweight Champion Anthony Joshua for the next few years. Wilder, who is unknown even in America and draws but thousands, ...

By Scoop Malinowski What the heck did Floyd Mayweather mean when he said in 2010:  “I don’t love boxing like I used to, because boxing isn’t real anymore.” Was Paul Malignaggi revealing that Al Haymon could fix any fight he wanted to when he said, “Al Haymon can manipulate anything. ...

By Scoop Malinowski Covering pro boxing since 1992, I’ve been fortunate to score a few notable scoops over the years. Here are a few memorable ones… I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was in Delray Beach, typing a story for coverage of the Delray Beach Open ATP ...