…Seemingly out of nowhere, news of Marvin Hagler’s death broke. As stoically, as Hagler spoke, using his words like his punches, making each one count, so was news of his passing, in a brief statement made on a fan page, that explained in closing that the family wanted privacy. So

James Toney is boxing royalty, one of the best fighters I saw as a child growing up, who guided me through my young adulthood, and like all great athletes, will slowly get forgotten for what they did, and gradually became a famous name, that young people don’t want to learn

Since Floyd Mayweather left the sport of boxing, no has taken the star spotlight as Canelo Alvarez. Networks have bid over the services of Alvarez, who keeps signing historic contracts for unfathomable riches. Why? Canelo seemingly always delivers. An entertaining fighter, with a star personality, who is more than likely

Last Thursday, the internet broke as Devin Haney, who is in camp for the biggest fight of his career against George Kambosos Jnr, in which the winner will claim all four world title belts in the lightweight division, saw an unexpected visitor, in one of the best welterweights in the

Salvador Sanchez is a fighter of folklore, not unlike Ritchie Valens, who tragically died premature after his hit “La Bamba”, Sanchez defeated Wilfredo Gomez, Azumah Nelson, Danny Lopez, amongst others before people understood how good those fighters were, and at only 24-years-old, was taken from us. When mentioning Sanchez the

With Edgar Berlanga main eventing this week on ESPN against Steve Rolls, and Xander Zayas featured in the co-main event, we thought it might be a good time to look at the greatest Puerto Rican boxers of all time. Here is the list ITRBoxing’s staff came up with. 01) Felix

LONDON (Feb. 25, 2022) — After storming the United States with a pair of knockouts over Deontay Wilder, WBC/Lineal/Ring Magazine heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury returns home for an all-British battle against WBC interim champion Dillian Whyte on Saturday, April 23 at London’s Wembley Stadium connected by EE. Fury-Whyte will be broadcast live on

I think sometimes people confuse what ITRBoxing is, they think we want to be something we are not, a major entity in boxing, always trying to be right with the opinions, I share. In fact, what it truly is, is a platform for fighters who largely go unacknowledged to get

It is now official that Katie Taylor will face Amanda Serrano for all four of the lightweight world titles held by Taylor, on April 30th, at Madison Square Garden, in New York City, New York live on DAZN. Presale begins at 12noon ET on Thursday February 3, with tickets on

Being involved with boxing somewhat sucks, I know that is a terrible introduction for remembering someone, but it is so thankless. It is this thankless nature that has no inspired me to write about boxing media and personalities after they pass away as sadly, other outlet, include one’s that got