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“It’s not personal, it’s business…” A nature of boxing is that the powers that be sometimes decide to remove the reigning champion and replace him with the fresh, new, more marketable, and/or more popular champion. The most recent example was Sergey Kovalev’s two losses in a row to Andre Ward ...

Experts Contemplate: Bernard Hopkins vs. Jermain Taylor By Scoop Malinowski The hugely-anticipated Bernard Hopkins vs. Jermain Taylor undisputed Middleweight championship showdown may be off supposedly because Hopkins was not satisfied with the terms of the rematch clause, should he lose to the young danger man. But we decided to ask ...

World Light Heavweight champion Andre Ward has accepted a ten million dollar offer to fight Sergey Kovalev for a third straight time, this time in St Petersburg, Russia on August 18. Upset by cries of fix and inside job, Ward was offered the gigantic guarantee to face Kovalev in Russia ...

Friend-colleague-boxing insider Rick Glaser said today that there are “only seven media” guys in the press center in Las Vegas for the Kovalev vs Ward rematch. I think there were 700 reporters at some of Mike Tyson’s press conferences and over a thousand at his fights. This is astonishingly bad ...

Boxing history is filled with suspicions and accusations of fraud boxers who were protected and choreographed by corrupt forces, motivated of course by money or more specifically, greed. Examples of accused fraud champions?  Primo Carnera is probably the one with the most suspicion. Years ago I concluded that Floyd Mayweather’s ...

In the book Jack Dempsey: A Flame of Pure Fire, the former heavyweight champion told his biographer Roger Kahn that he wanted the readers to know a very important truth about his career. Dempsey told Kahn, “I want you to get to the people, that losing to Tunney was the ...

Errol Spence is top class. One of the most impressive welterweight title winning performances I’ve ever seen tonight in Sheffield ENG v Kell Brook who appeared to have had enough. Spence was stronger than Brook and anyone expected and never stopped pushing his way to victory. Brook was a fantastic ...

  By Scoop Malinowski Al Haymon has decided to send Errol Spence over to England to try to wrest Kell Brook’s IBF Welterweight title to bring back to America and under the control of Haymon. This is a considerable risk by Haymon, who was reluctant to send his other welterweight ...

By Scoop Malinowski A common perception created by the media is that the modern heavyweight era is far less talented than the Muhammad Ali era of the 1960s and 1970s. For decades we have heard over and over and over that today’s heavyweights are nowhere near the same level of ...