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The year 2024 was highly eventful for the boxing world with plenty of quality fights and talking points. The BoxingScene team wonder how it will ultimately be remembered. Has boxing had a good year? Kieran Mulvaney: Define good. It crowned an undisputed…

A radical thought: What if boxing scoring isn’t actually corrupt or incompetent? I know, I know. Before you leap into the comments to demand my head on a stick, I’m not defending Adalaide Byrd’s 118-110 card in favor of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in his…

It hasn't been sweetness and light for everyone in the last 12 months. The BoxingScene writers name some of those within boxing who will be glad to see the back of 2024. Who most needs 2024 to end? Kieran Mulvaney:…

One of the central tensions and inherent beauties of boxing is its open format – the world of possibilities available to either combatant at any moment. In other sports, a clock and a scoreboard impart linear limitations that, at some point during competition, can create…

According to at least one BoxingScene commenter , we are presently in the midst of the “worst heavyweight era ever.” Not all opinions are good ones, of course, and brief recourse to a history book – and to the series of heavyweight main events…

The BoxingScene writers have thought long and hard to bring you their takeout from 2024 that may not be shared by all... What is your unpopular take of 2024? Kieran Mulvaney: Boxing is going to deeply regret prostituting itself to Turki Alalshikh.…

The BoxingScene end of year roundtable continues and, alas, it's time to identify some of the bad stuff ... What was your biggest gripe of 2024? Kieran Mulvaney: It probably sounds boring and whiny and old and washed to bleat constantly about…

A rematch between WBA junior bantamweight titleholder Fernando “Puma” Martinez and Kazuto Ioka appears to be off. The bout scheduled for Ota-City General Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan on New Year’s Eve now seems set to wait for the new year. “What a bummer....There…

The closest we get to truly understanding a fighter is watching them in the ring. The time before a boxing match is too primed for psychological warfare to really trust anything anybody says. It’s only during the fight that the physiques and styles answer the…