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1 week ago | boxinginsider.com | Sean Crose

By: Sean CroseWriting is rarely a completely objective endeavor. Although we writers find ourselves trying to stem the tide of our own biases, those biases have a way of sneaking in there nonetheless. The honor is more in the effort than it is the imperfect result. What makes the Marvelous Marvin Hagler-Thomas Hearns fight of 1985 unique to me is that I’m willing to write about it with little regard for objectivity. It’s the greatest fight in history, in my opinion, and that’s all there is to it.

1 week ago | boxinginsider.com | Sean Crose

By: Sean CroseI’m often asked why I prefer boxing to mixed martial arts. I always respond with the perhaps vague assertion that boxing is cleaner. And by clean I don’t mean morally clean. Indeed the forces behind, say, UFC are perhaps less shady than the forces behind professional boxing. What I mean by cleaner is sharper.

1 week ago | boxinginsider.com | Sean Crose

By: Sean CroseJaron “Boots” Ennis was looking to impress Saturday night when he stepped into the ring in Atlantic City to battle fellow welterweight titlist Eimantas Stanionis in a divisional unification fight. Like the 33-0 Ennis, the 15-0 Stanionis was undefeated and eager to assert himself as the top fighter at 147. The bout was the main event of a Matchroom card broadcast live on DAZN and was scheduled for a championship 12.

1 week ago | boxinginsider.com | Sean Crose

By: Sean CroseIBF welterweight champ Jaron “Boots” Ennis will take on WBA welterweight champ Eimantas Stanionis Saturday night in Atlantic City. Expect the crowd at Boardwalk Hall to be pulling for Ennis, a native of nearby Philadelphia. This won’t be any tuneup for Ennis, however, as Lithuania’s Stanionis isn’t only a world titlist himself, but also an exciting fighter who has yet to be defeated.

2 weeks ago | boxinginsider.com | Sean Crose

By: Sean Crose Tyson Fury’s trilogy of heavyweight title bouts with Deontay Wilder was one for the ages. Some people may say it was a trilogy fought between second rate heavyweight champions. Those people would be wrong. Aside from Oleksandr Usyk, Fury was the greatest heavyweight titlist since Lennox Lewis (the Klitschkos were great, but not Fury great). As for Wilder, this writer sees him as the hardest hitting fighter ever (and he knows a bit about boxing history).