Heavyweight gets the headlines, but cruiserweight is quietly putting on the best shows in boxing. Jai Opetaia dismantling everyone with southpaw brilliance, Chris Billam-Smith’s non-stop wars, Gilberto Ramirez moving up, Badou Jack still dangerous, Noel Mikaelyan, Yuniel Dorticos – the list goes on. These are big, athletic men who punch like heavyweights but move and […]

Over the years of watching boxing for more than 30 years now we’ve noticed some things that apply to professional boxing in terms of moving weight. Very few becoming world champion. Even fewer become undisputed or unified world champion in a weight class in professional boxing. A very rare select few men then becoming multi-weight

The Sky Sports hype job theory in pro boxing was actually proven many times over the years when you look at it. Sky, a network in the UK and Europe with an outstanding marketing machine behind them, were very good at telling stories of fightersbut sometimes maybe too good at it. One former director at

They say a professional fighter learns much more from a loss than a win and it possibly has some truth to it when you look at great champions. When everything is going well and you are battering and flattening everyone one, things are great, but you find out what kind of fighter you really are

Boxers after they lose a fight can be highly wound up and charged just after a fight so some slack can be cut for them of course. But over the years, many fans and maybe those in the boxing industry would say there is a few things that maybe boxers should try to think over

Floyd and Roger Mayweather popularized pad work on YouTube and the internet and now everyone thinks they are them — they are not — far from it. The two of them were complete once off geniuses on the pads who spent years around one another, day and night, through the middle of the night at

Forty years old, twenty one fights, twenty knockouts. Let that sink in. He’s still here and still competing near the highest level. The man has only ever heard the final bell as a professional once — against Ditry Bivol. Age was supposed to rob the legs, slow the hands, dull the edge. Instead he marched