By Scoop Malinowski Status: WBO Light Heavyweight champion. Record is 28-3 (22 KOs). Ht: 6-0  Wt: 175 DOB: September 20, 1989  In: Long Island, NY Record:  23-1 (19 KOs). First Boxing Memory:  “I guess walking into the gym at thirteen. My father brought me down there. I sparred. I ...

“It’s not personal, it’s business…” A nature of boxing is that the powers that be sometimes decide to remove the reigning champion and replace him with the fresh, new, more marketable, and/or more popular champion. The most recent example was Sergey Kovalev’s two losses in a row to Andre Ward ...

Gennady Golovkin is on the verge of the biggest fight of his life September 16 in Las Vegas against Canelo Alvarez. But the unbeaten 35-year-old middleweight king is taking the humble, play nice approach during this week’s press activities. I was able to pop a few questions to the man ...

Experts Contemplate: Bernard Hopkins vs. Jermain Taylor By Scoop Malinowski The hugely-anticipated Bernard Hopkins vs. Jermain Taylor undisputed Middleweight championship showdown may be off supposedly because Hopkins was not satisfied with the terms of the rematch clause, should he lose to the young danger man. But we decided to ask ...

World Light Heavweight champion Andre Ward has accepted a ten million dollar offer to fight Sergey Kovalev for a third straight time, this time in St Petersburg, Russia on August 18. Upset by cries of fix and inside job, Ward was offered the gigantic guarantee to face Kovalev in Russia ...

Friend-colleague-boxing insider Rick Glaser said today that there are “only seven media” guys in the press center in Las Vegas for the Kovalev vs Ward rematch. I think there were 700 reporters at some of Mike Tyson’s press conferences and over a thousand at his fights. This is astonishingly bad ...

Boxing history is filled with suspicions and accusations of fraud boxers who were protected and choreographed by corrupt forces, motivated of course by money or more specifically, greed. Examples of accused fraud champions?  Primo Carnera is probably the one with the most suspicion. Years ago I concluded that Floyd Mayweather’s ...

By Scoop Malinowski Boxing Hall of Famer LeRoy Neiman, the world renowned artist, has been around boxing since childhood days in Minnesota with the famous Gibbons Brothers, to a lifelong friendship and insider access with Muhammad Ali. In his new book “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, ...

In the book Jack Dempsey: A Flame of Pure Fire, the former heavyweight champion told his biographer Roger Kahn that he wanted the readers to know a very important truth about his career. Dempsey told Kahn, “I want you to get to the people, that losing to Tunney was the ...

Errol Spence is top class. One of the most impressive welterweight title winning performances I’ve ever seen tonight in Sheffield ENG v Kell Brook who appeared to have had enough. Spence was stronger than Brook and anyone expected and never stopped pushing his way to victory. Brook was a fantastic ...