Fighting words: How the advice of former champion Riddick Bowe helped Dominic Breazeale become a better boxer
A few years back in a Thai city renowned for hosting one of the world’s largest transgender beauty pageants, a former heavyweight champ’s career self-immolated in a blaze of questionable decision-making. And yet, those flames helped ignite the prospects of a younger fighter vying to become a champion like his seen-better-days hero.
Punches in bunches: Charles Martin aims to bring more excitement, a higher work rate to the heavyweight division
His personality is proportional to the rest of him: big, like the tires on an earthmover, inflated with élan in place of air.
Powered by a light-outs jab, Jermall Charlo TKO’s Wilky Campfort in his first title defense
At a joint called The Bomb Factory, it was Jermall Charlo who brought the munitions—namely, a 20-megaton jab that cratered yet another opponent.
In his hometown debut, Errol Spence Jr. dominates Alejandro Barrera en route to his fifth straight TKO victory
It was a textbook dismantling, with pages inked the sweat and blood of Errol Spence Jr.'s opponent.
After skipping the turkey and stuffing this year, Jermall Charlo ready to feast on Wilky Campfort instead in his first title defense
He’s a champion now, which means many things, chiefly, no snooze alarms.
Having fullfilled his dream by winning a world title, Jermall Charlo now focused on keeping it
The word used to be half-filled, attached to him not because of who he was, but what he had the potential to become: “Champ.” Jermall Charlo’s heard if for much of his life, but it has a new ring to it these days, one as sweet to the ear as the sound of all those clinking glasses from the celebratory toasts in his honor. Now, “champ” is a title, not a promise.
After a breakout year, 126-pound champ Lee Selby eyes homecoming bout, potential unification fight with Leo Santa Cruz in 2016
It almost sounds as if he’s speaking of another man’s life instead of his own, like he’s narrating a movie instead of starring in it. And yet, here's Lee Selby, the leading man in the role of a lifetime thanks to 12 transformative months.
Long before he became a champion, Jermall Charlo was mentored by plenty of them
He was a little boy among big men, just 8 years old, eyes as wide as a tomato can’s punches.
