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There is nothing quite so fascinating as a boxer who has game-changing hands, true weapons that can render a foe slumped and twitching in a blink. The fight game hasn't had an excess of those natural-born lobotomizers in recent years, as the top t...

From Monday through Thursday, television people convened in New York City to hype their stuff and try to convince advertisers that their programming is top grade and worthy of getting top advertising dollars. Boxing exec Oscar De La Hoya made the tre...

Boxing's top pound for pound fundraiser, Boyd Melson, is heading up a charity gala tonight (May 16), which will raise money for spinal cord injury research. The 11-1-1 junior middleweight Melson, along with friend Christan Zaccagnino, created Tea...

The specter of The Gig hangs over Devon Alexander. The man is talented enough, and professional enough, and focused enough that it is more than likely that the mere possibility of The Gig -- i.e., a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr., and the attenda...

Andy Lee, the Irish middleweight looking to get back on the big stage for another crack at a crown, has an Off-Broadway gig, of sorts, tonight. The 28-year-old, who was a protege of the late sage Emanuel Steward, meets Darryl Cunningham atop a Lou Di...

Boxing got into his blood from early on, and Johnny Bos didn't try and fight it. The matchmaker extraordinaire, who put boxing right there with air and water, died Saturday at his Clearwater, Fl. residence, at age 61. The fiancee of his younger br...

The freelance sport of boxing was the only professional sport, I dare say, that would have let an inveterate truth-teller like Johnny Bos, the legendary agent/matchmaker extraordinaire who died Saturday in Clearwater, Fla., be part of the club for an...

Five time Boxing Writers Association of America Trainer of the Year Freddie Roach saw Floyd Mayweather do his thing in Las Vegas on Saturday night. His verdict? "Mayweather fought careful, calculated," he said. "The fight against Robert Guerrero was ...

Manny Pacquiao has lost his past two bouts, so his next scrap, against Brandon Rios in Macau on Nov. 24 (Nov. 23 in the U.S.) is beyond crucial. I checked in with Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, and asked him for his take on the bout, Rios as ...

Guillermo Rigondeux impressed the heck out of boxing fans who saw him do his ultra-clever pugilism against, the 2012 Boxing Writers Association Fighter of the Year, Nonito Donaire at Radio City Music Hall on April 13. Yes, there was some grumbling...

Seems like everyone I come across is impressed with Marcus Browne's progress as a pro thus far. The Staten island hitter, a light heavyweight, rose to 4-0 with a KO2 takeout of Taneal Goyco at Barclays on Saturday night. I asked the lefty, who rep...

More than 300 people attended this past Sunday's second annual New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) induction dinner, sponsored by Ring 8, at Russo's On The Bay in Howard Beach, New York, as 20 inductees from the Class of 2013 were honored. ...

Danny Jacobs looked sharp in taking out Keenan Collins in round four at Barclays Center Saturday night. The Brownsville-born middleweight was putting combos together from the start on Collins, a Pennsylvania fighter. Now living in Park Slope, Jaco...

Monte Barrett has known Zab Judah for practically forever and while I think it's fair to note that Barrett could be biased, because he's friends with Judah, the heavyweight did tell NYFightbog that he thinks Judah is on message, and ready to rock ton...

Often, in defending the sport of boxing against those who see it as pointless brutality, I point to the multitudes who have been lifted up by the sport. On an annual basis hundreds of children in the United States and thousands worldwide find the gym...

Security was tight at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn on Wednesday, the day after Team Garcia and Team Judah skirmished at Modell's across from Barclays Center during a meet'n greet for fans ahead of the Saturday Golden Boy/Showtime card, topped by Danny G...