I don't have to tell anybody reading this that boxing is stagnant. The truth is that most of the articles written today are how Pacquiao-Mayweather isn't happening, and how there are too many ...

A cruiserweight battle between Chris Billam-Smith and Ran Rozicki headlines this weekend in boxing!

Editor’s Note: This story was included in The Athletic’s Best of 2019. See the full list. Back in the mid-2000s, when Patrick Connor was a forum administrator for MaxBoxing.com, he used to post ...

Following a winning performance against Junto Nakatani at the Tokyo Dome, Naoya "The Monster" Inoue has ascended to the top of the sport, securing the No. 1 ranking from The Ring magazine, the ...

A quarter-century after he pulled off one of boxing’s most stunning upsets, two-time world heavyweight boxing champion Hasim ...

Welcome to The Athletic Speed Bag, a semi-regular roundup of all things bizarre, macabre and wonderful in the fight game. As HBO’s legendary ringside analyst Larry Merchant famously said, boxing is ...

The Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight was controversial, to say the least. Much was made about Paul fighting someone decades older who was in poor health. Yet, 'The Problem Child' has remained defiant in ...

British boxer Lawrence Okolie returned an adverse finding following an anti-doping test just days ahead of his return to the ring, promoter Queensberry announced on Tuesday.