Point of view

We had included it in our list of “dream Italian derbies,” we got excited when the EBU named the two fighters as co-challengers for the European title, and finally we…

Fighting away from home in boxing means having to work twice as hard. It’s not enough to win—you have to “convince,” and sometimes even “dominate,” to avoid being left empty-handed.…

A routine six-round bout involving a debuting professional is not the kind of event that usually makes headlines. And so, a blatant and shocking injustice risks slipping under the radar,…

Criticism, complaints, and grievances about everything that doesn’t work in the world of international boxing have become so frequent and widespread that they are hardly news anymore. We ourselves have…

Eight weight classes instead of seventeen, a single world champion instead of four, the best fighters placed in a position to face one another without being hindered by television rights,…

On Friday night, live on Netflix, one of the most absurd fights in recent boxing history will take place. Former heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua will step into the ring…

Simone D’Alessandri is a man of sport. As such, he is accustomed to frank, direct, and fair confrontation—the kind that athletic competition instills day after day, challenge after challenge. We…

Servility, flattery, and tragicomic submission toward those perceived as richer and more powerful are deeply rooted evils that have long permeated and poisoned our national culture, ever since these attitudes…

PARTIAL CORRECTION: I wrote and published this article after watching the fight video at full speed, forming the impression that, during his initial offensive burst, Gabriele Casella was struck and…

Here comes the sound of the final bell: the match is over, the fighters return to their corners, and the coaches remove the gloves from their athletes’ hands. A hush…