By Matthew Brown 02/02/2026 Follow Brunch Boxing on Twitter/X Long before boxing was governed by gloves, commissions, and bright lights, the sport was shaped in open fields by raw courage, brutality, and survival. Among the most remarkable figures of that era was Tom Molineaux, an African American bare-knuckle boxer whose life and career challenged both opponents and the racial boundaries of the early 19th century. Born into slavery in Virginia around 1784, Molineaux was intr

By Matthew Brown 02/01/2026 Follow Brunch Boxing on Twitter/X Boxing history is filled with champions crowned and belts won, but some of the sport’s greatest figures never received the opportunities their talent demanded. Eddie Booker stands firmly among them. One of the greatest fighters of his era, a Hall of Famer in every sense, and a name that history can no longer overlook. Eddie Booker, born Hilton Edward Booker on November 5, 1917, was an African American boxer whose p

By Radhika Kumar 01/29/2026 Figure 1 Boxing has changed. But has it really been for the better? - Source: Pixabay Boxing has always been a business as much as it has been a sport. It is one of the few sports that values promoters almost as highly as the athletes themselves. The promotion of an event has always indicated how big the fight will be, even if the two people in the ring are not the highest-ranked in their weight class.   But the business of boxing has become almost

By Matthew Brown 01/21/2026 Follow Brunch Boxing on Twitter/X Credits: Janibek Alimkhanuly X Sources tell Brunch Boxing that the positive drug test for WBO and IBF Super Middleweight Champion Janibek Alimkhanuly has been confirmed following the analysis of the B sample. Alimkhanuly initially tested positive for the banned substance meldonium in the lead-up to his December 6 unification bout with WBA Middleweight Champion Erislandy Lara. The fight was scheduled to co-headline