Dougie’s Friday mailbag (Errol Spence vs. Mikey Garcia)
DAVID AND GOLIATH Hey Doug, When was/were the last time(s) you saw a great little man beat a great big man? I...
read moreLem’s latest: Andre Ward’s best is yet to come, says trainer
Trainer Virgil Hunter says the best is yet to come from THE RING and WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward.
read moreTrainer Robert Garcia: The transformation of Marcos Maidana
Robert Garcia on Marcos Maidana’s win over Adrien Broner: “We were ready to throw 100 punches a round. We know that’s the only way to beat somebody like Adrien Broner, or that’s the way to beat somebody like Floyd Mayweather [Jr.,]. That’s the way [Roberto] Duran beat Sugar Ray Leonard.”
read moreLeonard, Foreman talk Pacquiao, retirement
There are some who have already asked Manny Pacquiao to retire and others who would do so if he loses to Brandon Rios on Nov. 23. Sugar Ray Leonard and George Foreman talk about how hard the decision to hang up the gloves can be.
read moreLem’s latest: ESPN airs Leonard-Duran II documentary
On Tuesday night, ESPN will air ‘No Mas,’ a documentary dealing with the second of three fights between Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran, which ended with a frustrated Duran apparently quitting in the eighth round.
read moreStevens ready to ‘destroy’ Golovkin
Curtis Stevens on Gennady Golovkin: “I’m moving faster, I’m quicker than I expected. I’m just ready. I’m just ready to go in there and destroy him.”
read moreStevens: Golovkin is ‘God’ among middleweight ‘peasants’
Curtis Stevens on why he pursued Gennady Golovkin: “Golovkin is the so-called ‘Most-Feared Middleweight in the World,’ so why not? Why not go after God instead of going after the peasants in the middleweight division?”
read moreGarcias not impressed with Matthysse, confident of victory
Danny Garcia on Lucas Matthysse: “I’m going to show the world who the better fighter is. I’m a different kind of animal, and he’s never fought nobody like me before. We’ll see how he reacts when I hit him back.”
read moreGriffith’s Ring of Fire to air Friday on MSG Network
Ring of Fire, the story of Emile Griffith, will air on Friday at 10 p.m. on The MSG Network.
read moreLalonde rebuts Leonard, discusses catchweights, Mayweather-Alvarez
Donny Lalonde discusses his fateful catchweight bout with Sugar Ray Leonard in 1988 and how weight issues figured into the outcome, and offers his thoughts on the practice of inventing new weight limits for fights today.
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