Just the mere mention of a possible Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor bout is enough to send boxing “purists” into a downward emotional spiral. And with Floyd Mayweather’s recent announcement that he was coming out of retirement precisely for a big-money McGregor clash, the sound of mass hand-wringing and clucking of tongues is almost deafening. “Oh sweet spirit of Jack … [Read more...]
El Ciclon de Guantánamo Blew
If David Lemieux-Curtis Stevens on Saturday night was precisely the type of fight for which HBO's Boxing After Dark was designed, Yuriorkis Gamboa-Rene Alvarado was precisely the type of fight Boxing After Dark was designed to ignore. Gamboa-Alvarado was ten rounds of nothingness showcasing a multi-talented failed superstar refusing to do anything other than the bare minimum … [Read more...]
The World Boxing Super Series: Too Big to Fail or Too Ambitious to Succeed?
It's a great idea-- in principle. A $50 million, 16-man tournament in each division (two tournaments a year) featuring fighters ranked in the top 15 of the four sanctioning bodies competing for the awesome-looking Muhammad Ali Trophy That's the premise behind The World Boxing Super Series, an ambitious project officially announced on Thursday and spearheaded by the upstart … [Read more...]
Danny Garcia doesn’t care about being a fighter anymore
Danny Garcia's passive, disinterested performance against Keith Thurman on March 4 shouldn't have come as much of a surprise. Those closely following his career may have hoped that such a high profile, high stakes bout would awaken the dormant competitor in him, but the fact that it did not is no shocker. Garcia hasn't looked like a boxer with interest in boxing for a long … [Read more...]
Thurman-Garcia on CBS generates huge ratings, beats the NBA
Last Saturday's Keith Thurman-Danny Garcia welterweight unification bout on CBS proved to be a huge ratings success by boxing standards, peaking at 5.1 million viewers (the second largest TV audience for boxing since 1998 and just behind last August's 6 million who tuned in to see the Errol Spence Jr.-Leonard Bundu bout on NBC.) The entire CBS telecast, which featured an … [Read more...]