“Khan met his somewhere before the end of the sixth round on Saturday night, before Crawford’s left hook found hip instead of liver, and offered Khan an irresistible opportunity: at best a disqualification win over the finest opponent of his career; at worst, a short night he’d remember in full. He got the latter in a fight most would just as soon forget. Crawford TKO6 Khan was an outcome expected to come with a gasp—instead, there were groans.”

Read A Charming Cruelty: Terence Crawford Mauls Amir Khan on Hannibal Boxing.

“Admittedly, this is not much by way of a preview; not if a preview is supposed to examine each fighter’s path to victory, to accompany that analysis with a prediction, and to offer both with a whiff of enthusiasm. But since Crolla’s chances for victory exist mostly in the vacuum that he and Jorge Linares occupied for twenty-four rounds, and since Lomachenko’s greatest threat Friday is a possibly cavalier attitude about a fight promoter Bob Arum says “got shoved up our ass,” there is really only the outcome to predict and, well, you already know that.”

Read The Price for Praise: Vasiliy Lomachenko Defends Against Anthony Crolla on Hannibal Boxing.

“Nothing about Spence’s performance Saturday is likely to embolden his Premier Boxing Companions into reckoning with him. That well-compensated and seasoned bunch knows too well that the remuneration for a stern challenge hardly exceeds that of two or three middling ones, and they plot their careers accordingly. (Spence also understands this simple calculation, though he seems less enamored by its efficacy). It should come as no surprise then that forty-year-old Manny Pacquiao was conveniently ringside to later hint at the biggest in-house event Al Haymon can deliver Spence—short of convincing Floyd Mayweather Jr. to unretire to be an underdog. All of the talent he has at welterweight and Haymon is using a lightweight and a man in his forties to build Spence. An indictment of Haymon’s welterweights, that, and a lesson in how not to dangle a carrot.”

Read No Man Down: Errol Spence Cruises Past Mikey Garcia on Hannibal Boxing.