When Sergio "Maravilla" Martinez (46-2-2, 25 KOs) meets Sergei "Razor" Dzinziruk (37-0, 23 KOs) for Martinez’s Ring middleweight title on March 12, the world’s best middleweight (Martinez) will be facing one of its best junior middleweights (Dzinziruk). Both men are southpaws with sparkling records. These facts can not be denied. What can be questioned, however, is […]

Hello, ladies and gentlemen. I apologize for being absent lately. Between preparing for the birth of my second child and being obsessed with the ‘Melodrama that my beloved New York Knicks are entrenched in, I have not written as often as I’d like. But to quote Eddie Murphy’s legendary Beverly Hills Cop Axel Foley, "I’m back!!!" […]

Back in 2008, I assumed that Junior Witter would defeat Timothy "The Desert Storm" Bradley. Then in 2009, I predicted that Bradley would lose to Kendall Holt. And since I’m of the stubborn lot, I wrote that Nate Campbell would emerge victorious in his bout with Bradley later that same year. There is no way I should bet against […]

When I first found out that Bernard "the Executioner" Hopkins (51-5-1, 32 KOs) was fighting Jean Pascal (26-1, 16 KOs), the first question I asked was why did Hopkins never seem eager to fight Chad Dawson, when "Bad Chad" was the undisputed light heavyweight champion? After befuddling a seemingly uninterested Dawson in his title-claiming victory earlier […]