If done right, rematches are always going to be intriguing to fans, especially if the first fight was exciting or controversial. And then sometimes you find challengers who don’t even mind waiting.
Manny Pacquiao is once again using his pull as one of the sport’s most lucrative fighters to enhance his status in its history – even at the risk of backfiring on him.
Nonito knows as well as any boxing pundit that there’s nothing to be gained by experimenting at this point in his career. It’s time to graduate to bigger challenges. And he will this Fall.
Yuri Foreman showed heart in fighting through a knee injury but ultimately relinquished his WBA Junior Middleweight title to a rejuvenated Miguel Cotto.
Join Inside Fights for live coverage of “Stadium Slugfest,” headlined by Yuri Foreman’s first defense of the WBA 154-pound title against former welterweight and junior welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. On the undercard, undefeated junior middleweights Vanes Martirosyan and Joe Greene square off to see who will take their career to the next level. Don’t miss [...]
As expected, WBC Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko stopped Polish challenger Albert Sosnowski on Saturday but needed 10 uninspiring rounds to get the job done.
After dropping two of three epic fights to Israel Vazquez over the last three years, Rafael Marquez gained a measure of revenge by bloodying and battering Vazquez in the series’ fourth and seemingly final chapter.
Amir Khan announced his arrival in the United States with his fists and closed the mouth of Paulie Malignaggi in the process. In one night, he won the respect of a historically tough New York crowd while humbling one of boxing’s biggest trash talkers.
Fighting in the shadow of Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s brilliant domination of Shane Mosley, Paul Williams had a major opportunity to establish himself as the biggest threat to Mayweather barring a showdown with Manny Pacquiao later this year. Unfortunately for Williams, his fight with Kermit Cintron Saturday night at the Home Depot Center was memorable for [...]
Join Inside Fights for live coverage of the junior middleweight bout between Paul Williams and Kermit Cintron tonight at 9:45 pm ET. Both men are coming off arguably the biggest wins of their careers. Williams narrowly defeated middleweight champion Sergio Martinez via majority decision in December while Cintron outboxed Alfredo Angulo in May of last [...]
If you find yourself tuning in to HBO this weekend to see a replay of Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s virtuoso performance against Shane Mosley and asking who the 6’1” junior middleweight southpaw throwing 100 punches a round at his opponent is, you’re not alone. The fact is Paul Williams continues to dwell in anonymity as far [...]
They said he didn’t take risks. They said he wouldn’t fight anyone who had a real chance of beating him. They were wrong. Despite the fact that Floyd Mayweather Jr. – undefeated in 41 fights now and a champion in five different weight classes – has beaten top level opposition his entire career, he still [...]
Despite being undersized, former light heavyweight and cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek proved he belongs in the heavyweight division by beating Chris Arreola in convincing fashion.
Prior to the bell, battle lines had been drawn for a fantastic heavyweight match and both fighters delivered.
In Group Stage Two of the Super Six World Boxing Classic, Carl Froch suffered the first loss of his career against Mikkel Kessler in Herning, Denmark. The Europeans engaged in a memorable war that could go down as 2010’s Fight of the Year and possibly the best fight of the tournament, with Kessler ultimately winning [...]
If it’s true that you’re only as good as your last two fights, then Lucian Bute might be the best super middleweight in the world. Yet he’s not in the Super Six World Boxing Classic – a tournament whose goal is to determine the king of the 168-pound division since the retirement of Joe Calzaghe. [...]