Interviews

By Tyson Bruce Floyd Mayweather Jr. was forced to appear in front of the Nevada State Athletic Commission to answer concerns about a thirty-one minute round fight that took place at his boxing club, as well as video footage on marijuana smoking that aired on the realty show All Access. …

By Tyson Bruce No one would question that Mayweather deserved to win his second bout with Marcos Maidana. In fact, the combined thirteen rounds that the judges awarded Maidana seemed rather generous. Yet, something about the second fight felt more difficult than the first. Mayweather’s balance seemed slightly off and …

By Sean Crose “It is my pleasure,” Oscar De La Hoya said on a Tuesday conference call with the media, “to announce to you that Canelo will be fighting on (the) HBO network.” Indeed, the rumors are true. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is once again an HBO man. What’s more, De …

By Ivan G. Goldman Floyd Mayweather has already gone past that place where he must measure his love of money and adulation against the slow draining of his skills inside the ring. That was evident long before his second bout against Marcos Maidana earlier this month, when he once again …

By Sean Crose This quite possibly may be the longest day in the professional career of Showtime honcho Stephen Espinoza. Not only is Golden Boy head and founder Oscar De La Hoya holding a press conference with Canelo Alvarez to announce Alvarez’ defection to HBO, Floyd Mayweather has gone and …

By William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of September 16th to September 23rd, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. WBC Issues a Letter to Pacquiao and Mayweather The WBC has sent out the following letter …

By Sean Crose There once was a time when boxing was a staple of network sports on the weekends. Three decades or so ago, names like Ray Mancini, Hector Camacho, Michael Nunn and Donald Curry were sprinkled across the network sport’s landscape. That isn’t so much the case anymore. Boxing, …

By Tyson Bruce South Africa’s Thabiso “the Rock” Mchunu, 17-1-0-(11 KO’s), continued his meteoric rise up the cruiserweight ranks by dishing out a boxing lesson to the always-durable Garret Wilson. Mchunu used his massive advantage in speed and skills to utterly dominate the very one-dimensional Wilson throughout the ten rounder. …

By Sean Crose Light heavyweight champ Adonis Stevenson may fancy himself Superman but he reminds me of another fictional character entirely. Bartleby the Scrivener was the central figure in Herman Melville’s 1853 short story of the same name. In the tale, Bartleby shows up to work as a scrivener at …

By Sean Crose “The point of asking him to come to the meeting is not to accuse anyone of anything. We want to get a clarification about what happened.” So ESPN boxing scribe Dan Rafael has quoted Francisco Aguilar in an article which claims the Nevada State Athletic Commission has …