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If there’s boxing to be found on television, or online, fight fans will find it. That’s what we do, and without the mainstream exposure the sport formerly enjoyed, that’s what we have to do in order to satiate our fistic cravings.
So it was that the fight fever led boxing loyalists to EPIX, which began showcasing boxing cards last March. The sweet science has had few high quality destinations on television in recent years, but the upstart wants to enter the fray and is proving to be an immediate contender.
Being a boxing fan, it can sometimes be hard to get your fill. We are often left disappointed, because boxing fails to deliver on so many occasions. It seems that we boxing fans merely hold out for the handful of credible matches that happen each year… and sigh at the ones we miss.
Sergio Martinez vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather are two of the potential big matches that we’re missing out on right now, but what about historical boxing fantasy fights like Vitali Klitschko vs. …
The Ten Greatest Super Middleweights in Boxing History
One of the newer divisions in the sport–only strawweight is newer. However, super middleweight has seen more success than some of the more recently-created divisions, with a gaggle of talented and big figures among the top ten. At the same time, being less than 30 years old, this ranking does not have the historic names that fill other top tens.
In addition, there is a mix of those who make 168 their home and others who merely stop by for a little while. This …
The Ten Greatest Light Heavyweights in Boxing History
For many reasons, ranking light heavyweights is a tricky endeavor. Many of the greatest to ever do it at this weight were never officially champion. The issue of racism rears its head in this weight class, with many of the division’s top practitioners from the first half of the century being denied their rightful place.
Many old-time greats fought in many divisions and it can be difficult to isolate their prime into one division. Without many of them having won titles at 175, it’s …
The Ten Greatest Cruiserweights in Boxing History
Even though many of the greats in heavyweight history would be cruiserweights in the modern era, this is a long-suffering weight class. Almost devoid of marketability, this division has served mostly as a pit stop for aspiring smallish heavyweights or a wasteland for those who couldn’t cut it at heavyweight or light heavyweight. With a cruiserweight explosion in Europe, however, it’s not so bad nowadays.
There have been fine fighters at this weight. But as a neglected and fairly new division, it has lacked the …
Ten Greatest Heavyweights in Boxing History
While one of the easiest lists to compile, with so many many hallmark names at the top, it is one of the more sticky rankings in the sport. The number one and two spots are easy enough, with an even argument on Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis. After that, it is an absolute free-for-all with some of the giants from the past.
This division, more than any other, requires one to ignore the head-to-head fantasy component. Let’s face it, what a heavyweight really is has changed …
I guess I’d be preaching to the converted when it comes to the subject of ‘interim’, ‘regular’ and ‘super’ champion status. We all despise it and even feel ripped off by it. Right? Right. So if that’s how we feel, imagine how the athlete who has been through that ridiculousness, and comes out the other side a World Champion, must feel.
I am a past boxing official, and was a diehard fan, who once preached all that was good about the sport to anyone who would listen. But now I feel …
Last August I made the modest proposal that the relevancy of boxing’s “alphabet soups” — the world sanctioning organizations that issue rankings and titles — be ranked on an objective basis, and that no more an objective basis existed than on the stature of an organization’s champions. The WBA and WBC became major organizations largely due to getting there first, but the IBF and WBO rose in stature entirely on the basis of the men who wore their belts and the battles those belts …
The WBC has now clarified the muddied situation the organization itself created with its surprising pair of announcements just before the New Year.
In back to back announcements, the WBC declared that Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. had to defend his (fake) middleweight title against (rightful champion) Sergio Martinez sometime in 2012 and that Chavez, Jr. had not formally notified the WBC of his bout with Marco Antonio Rubio, scheduled for February 4. The latter announcement implied that the WBC might not sanction the fight with Rubio, despite …
Will Boxing Fans Finally See Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao in 2012?
Depending on who you ask, and when, you can get wildly divergent answers to the question of whether or not Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather will ever fight, and whether or not it will happen in the coming year.
Some might say that Mayweather is scared, another might say Pacquiao’s team is protecting him and won’t let them meet. It’s about the money, or it’s not. It’s about the drug testing, or it never was. The talk can go on …
