Thirty-six years ago today, Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns staged one of the most thrilling, breathtaking and, yes, violent fights in boxing history. All these years later, it’s still recalled fondly and on Anniversary Days, scores of memories of the bout fill social media. What isn’t so conveniently or fondly remembered is the deleterious impact those kinds of fights
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Somehow, it seems kind of appropriate that I learned of my friend Royce Feour’s death on Boxing Day. As a journalist who covered boxing for nearly 40 years in Nevada, Feour became synonymous with the sport in his beloved home state. In the cutthroat world that is professional boxing, everybody has an enemy or someone who is out to get
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Sergey Kovalev has long been one of the world’s elite light heavyweights, and since routing the great Bernard Hopkins in Atlantic City in 2014 has been widely regarded among the finest pound-for-pound boxers in the world. Even given back-to-back losses to Andre Ward, Kovalev has remained among the sport’s elite. He’ll fight the unheralded Igor Mihalkin on Saturday in the main
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Story about the making of the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.
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If one did a survey of all televised boxing matches in the 21st century, I suspect heavyweights would be significantly overrepresented. Boxing fans, particularly in the U.S., have long had a fascination with the heavyweights, and promoters and TV executives have attempted to feed that itch with a series of mostly awful and one-sided matches. If I had to
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Former Senator Harry Reid (2nd from right) meets with boxer Manny Pacquiao (center) and Bob Arum (far right). The Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame announced a 14-member class on Thursday, and it includes some of the greatest fighters who ever lived. Of fighters from more recent vintage, Shane Mosley, Chris Byrd, Laila Ali and Kevin Kelley are going in as
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Deontay Wilder, the WBC heavyweight champion, was recently in the Yahoo Sports studios in Playa Vista, Calif., where he spoke with our Justin Perry about a variety of topics. One of them was the importance of unifying the titles in the heavyweight division. Wilder made the point that champions in other divisions who unify the belts often then move
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Murat Gassiev (R) battles Yunier Dorticos Saturday at the Bolshoy Ice Dome in Soshi, Russia during the World Boxing Super Series semifinals. (Photo courtesy World Boxing Super Series) Two weeks ago, HBO opened its 2018 boxing campaign with a tepid doubleheader that featured victories by Jorge Linares and Lucas Matthysse. On Saturday, ESPN showed a doubleheader from Texas and both
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