Jimmy Tobin
Parse and Punish: On Terence Crawford
By Jimmy Tobin-
It’s the smile, the mischief in it. There’s self-satisfaction there too, irrepressible, mocking. And something more sinister at work. A pleasure in...
The Lesson of The Master
By Jimmy Tobin-
When Ukranian Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko entered the ring at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night he did so as a nearly -1400...
Blonde Ambition
By Jimmy Tobin-
Jarrett “Swift” Hurd defeated Erislandy “The American Dream” Lara by split decision at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas,...
Destiny still arrives…
By Jimmy Tobin
Heavyweight, Anthony “AJ” Joshua won a unanimous decision over Joseph Parker before a capacity crowd at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales,...
Idol Pursuits: On Mikey Garcia and Oscar Valdez
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas, moonlighting junior welterweight Mikey Garcia ran his undefeated record to 38-0, turning...
Come as you are, Deontay Wilder
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, American heavyweight Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder made the seventh defense of his title, knocking...
The Pygmy Elephant in the Room
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, at the Forum in Inglewood, California, super flyweights Srisaket Sor Rungvisai and Juan Francisco Estrada gave HBO subscribers still forking...
Spence rolls in the waiting game
By Jimmy Tobin-
Errol “The Truth” Spence made the first defense of his welterweight trinket at Barclays Center in Brooklyn Saturday night, comprehensively battering Lamont...
The Regicide: On Srisaket Sor Rungvisai
By Jimmy Tobin-
He was the opponent that night in March, if not quite in the derogatory sense, where matchmaking calculus eliminates a fighter’s prospects...
What’s not to love about Lomachenko(?)
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night at Madison Square Garden Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko convinced his fourth consecutive opponent to quit on his stool. His victim this...
Pretty in Pink: On Miguel Cotto
By Jimmy Tobin-
There are worse ways to retire. In a sport that rarely bids its fraternity a kindly farewell, Miguel Cotto, who dropped a...
The Big Reveal
By Jimmy Tobin-
Anthony Joshua retained his heavyweight hardware with a tenth-round stoppage of typically game Carlos Takam at the near-bursting Principality Stadium in Cardiff,...
Bigmouth Strikes Again
By Jimmy Tobin-
Jermall Charlo, the more aggressive, harder punching of Kevin and Terrie’s twin boys, climbed the ropes of the USC Galen Center in...
Half Steppin’: Canelo, Golovkin fall short of greatness
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin fought to a most convenient draw....
A Long Short Night for Chocolatito
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, in the main event of HBO’s super flyweight tripleheader from StubHub Center in Carson, California, Wisaksil “Srisaket Sor Rungvisai” Wangek...
Rerun Season on ESPN
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night at The Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko tormented Miguel “The Scorpion” Marriaga to a corner stoppage at...
No Alarms and No Surprises: Garcia Cruises Past Broner
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, at Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, New York, Mikey Garcia dealt Adrien “The Problem” Broner a wide and comprehensive 12-round defeat...
A Funny Thing Happened in Australia
By Jimmy Tobin-
Welterweights Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn met at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia, Saturday night in a fight broadcast by ESPN; a...
Get Fighted: Ward Works Over Kovalev
By Jimmy Tobin-
Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev got the opportunity he wanted Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Seething from...
Stevenson, Pascal, and Bullets Both Spare and Spent
By Jimmy Tobin-
There was an infomercial of sorts at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Saturday night. In a rematch undesirable and undesired, Adonis...
Errol Spence bends then breaks Kell Brook
By Jimmy Tobin-
American welterweight Errol “The Truth” Spence beat England’s Kell “Special K” Brook into submission before 27,000 or so of Brook’s supporters at...
Brook, Sheffield, Await “The Truth”
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, undefeated American, Errol “The Truth’ Spence, meets the UK’s, Kell “Special K” Brook at the Bramall Lane Football Ground in...
With Apologies to Felix Diaz
By Jimmy Tobin-
This Saturday, undefeated American, Terence Crawford, meets Dominican, Felix Diaz, in a fight that is likely to only confirm junior welterweight supremacy....
Joshua Delivers on Heavyweight Expectations
By Jimmy Tobin-
Heavyweights Anthony “AJ” Joshua and Wladimir “Dr. Steelhammer” Klitschko met before 90,000 or so strong at Wembley Stadium in London Saturday night...
Hi-Tech’s Competition and Critics Need an Upgrade
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Ukrainian super featherweight Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko stopped New Jersey’s Jason “El...
Chocolatito catches up to defeat
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez lost a majority decision to an unheralded if not entirely overlooked Thai fighter...
No, Please, One Time Was Enough
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night at Barclay's Center in Brooklyn New York, Keith “One Time” Thurman won a split decision over Danny “Swift” Garcia adding...
Broner Isn’t the Problem Anymore
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, at the Cintas Center in Cincinnati Ohio, Adrien “The Problem” Broner won a split decision over Adrian “El Tigre” Granados,...
Thinking about Oxnard and Omaha
By Jimmy Tobin-
Saturday night, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, lightweight, Mikey Garcia, participated in his first significant fight in three years, facing...
The Becoming: Jack Draws with Degale
By Jimmy Tobin-
It was easy to look past the character being interviewed; rare are the moments when much of interest ever issues from that...
