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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amir Tyson, son of boxing legend Mike Tyson, is forging his own path as an entrepreneur and media personality, far from the ...

Right jab, left hook, right jab, and then ... bam! Knockout. There is nothing more exhilarating for a boxing audience than to see a fighter hit the mat in a knockout. But being on the losing end of a ...

UFC, OBJ and RBI are among the well-known abbreviations in sports today. KSI has stormed onto the scene as one of pop culture's biggest headline makers of the past few years. And he's elbowing his way ...

Professional boxers on a losing streak can quickly see their ambitions of winning a title fade - and get tarnished with the journeyman tag. While many athletes have retired their gloves after ...