By Corey Erdman - A lot has changed in just over four months for both Adrian Curiel and Sivenathi Nontshinga. In November of last year, Nontshinga was the toast of South African boxing, having won the IBF light flyweight title in September of 2022 ov...
By Corey Erdman - Joshua Buatsi has talked about wanting to be more active, having fought once in each of the last two years after a beginning to a pro career that had some observers declaring him to be the future of the light heavyweight division. B...
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By Corey Erdman - Ever since he reached a certain level of acclaim, Jaime Munguia has probably been asked “when are you going to fight Canelo Alvarez?” every single day of his life. After bursting onto the scene during HBO’s waning days in the sport,...
By Corey Erdman - After spending the vast majority of her career at 130 pounds or below as both a professional and amateur, Mikaela Mayer aimed about as high as she possibly could in her debut as a full-blown 147-pound fighter in taking on Natasha Jo...
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By Corey Erdman - During the 2000s in particular, the province of Quebec in Canada produced some of the most electric atmospheres on the global boxing scene. The province has been fight-crazed since the 1900s, but an influx of world-level talent and...
By Corey Erdman - This is the time of year when everyone is making New Year’s resolutions, deciding upon what they’ll accomplish in 2024 without having begun the work to accomplish it. Goal setting is important, as any self-help book will tell you, b...
By Corey Erdman - Bam Rodriguez and Sunny Edwards might not win Fight of the Year honors in a few weeks, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a fight in 2023 that demonstrated two-way high-level boxing ability in the manner they did on Saturday night in...
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By Corey Erdman - For large portions of Devin Haney’s dominant victory over Regis Prograis, DAZN commentators Sergio Mora and Shawn Porter, themselves former world champion boxers, outwardly praised Haney’s abilities. While the role of a color commen...
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By Corey Erdman - Ryan Garcia has used Lupe Fiasco’s 2007 song Superstar as his entrance music several times in his career, first against Romero Duno, then for his bout against Francisco Fonseca. At the time, his relation to the song may have been mo...
By Corey Erdman - Everyone who has achieved anything has that formative moment in their lives in which it became clear that their wildest dreams weren’t as far-fetched as they might have seemed, the moment when they realized they had what it takes. F...
By Corey Erdman - The art of matchmaking in boxing is a practice of toeing several lines at once. The one between giving your fighter confidence and giving them a learning experience. The one at the intersection of actual danger based on skill and pe...
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By Corey Erdman - Fighters whose professional journey began the way Steve Claggett’s did typically don’t win up headlining a card on an ESPN platform. For many years, Claggett bounced between short-term promotional deals and self-promotion, and was s...
By Corey Erdman - Over the last several years, no weight class in the sport has engendered more debate, excitement and mainstream attention than the lightweight division. Stocked full of talented fighters with broad fanbases who are also willing to c...
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