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Floyd Mayweather is known as one of the most protected boxers in ring history, with a career renowned for handpicking safe, easy fights and ducking and dodging formidable, high risk threats. Mayweather has carried over his no risk, all reward business model from his lucrative boxing career to his promoting ...

  By Scoop Malinowski Everything evolves, nothing is permanent. Things can change very quickly in the sport of boxing…   The man who earns the title of “greatest of all time” will never have to tell you about it nor will he want to. No, he won’t because anybody who ...

  I told you a month ago that the Fury vs Wilder rematch is not happening next or for any time in the foreseeable future. The first fight was a choreograph to upgrade each of their value via the draw (and to try to discredit and devalue the real king ...

  By Scoop Malinowski My sixth sense says Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury won’t have the rematch of their December draw any time soon. Fury’s trainer is dropping hints of no rematch and Wilder is talking with a hollow confidence that sounds like he knows his boss Al Haymon doesn’t ...

  By Scoop Malinowski Al Haymon carefully protects his fighters from dangerous fights, you should all know that by now. If you don’t, maybe you need to re-enroll and do over elementary school. One of Haymon’s key defense mechanisms to protect his key fighters is to manipulate them to talk ...

By Scoop Malinowski Mike Tyson has had enough of Floyd Mayweather’s fraud act which has polluted the great sport of boxing for over a decade. The final offense by Mayweather that broke the camel’s back was when Floyd claimed he’s better than Muhammad Ali. Mike Tyson unleashed a ferocious combination ...

Fighter Of The Year: Oleksandr Usyk Honorable Mention: Vasyl Lomachenko, Anthony Joshua, Terence Crawford,  Callum Smith, Oleksandr Gvozdyk, Canelo Alvarez   Trainer Of The Year: Anatoly Lomachenko   Comeback Of The Year: Tyson Fury, ESPN Boxing Honorable Mention:  Manny Pacquiao,   Manager Of The Year: Egis Klimas Upset Of The Year: Alvarez TKO Kovalev ...

26 DEC 18 | THOUGHTS, TRUTH ON HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING By Kenneth Lundgren Professional heavyweight boxing is not the same buzz of the 1980s and 1990s, but the division is also not dead like many believe. The field is deep with exciting and diverse fighters from across the globe. Who is ...

By Scoop Malinowski Tevin Farmer has exposed how Al Haymon operates – identify his key asset boxers and then manufacture them to stardom via protection and um, well you know. Here is an interview exchange by Boxing Talk’s Greg Leon and the 28 year old IBF Super Featherweight champ from ...

By Scoop Malinowski   Status: Heavyweight contender. Ht: 6-0 Wt: 230 DOB: December 29, 1983 In: Zimbabwe Hobbies/leisure activities: “Cars.” Early boxing memory: “My first amateur fight.” Boxing heroes: “Floyd Mayweather Jr, Tyson, Ali, and Riddick Bowe.” First job: “Mechanic.” Current car: “A Smart.” Last book read: “Romeo and Juliet.” ...