The Boxing Truth®

  When it comes to trilogies in the sport of Boxing, it is logical to assume that when a fighter is able to emerge with two victories out of three bouts that in most cases that would conclude the story/rivalry between two fighters. There are times however, when no matter what the results are between two fighters over a series of fights, the question becomes will the rivalry continue beyond three fights.   While it is rare to see a series of fights exceed three bouts due to both the politics that be in the sport as well and perhaps more specifically, the accumulation of punishment fighters sustain not only in the course of a series of bouts, but in their careers in general, there have been exceptions. Many will recall the series of fights between Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta in the 1940’s and 1950’s that extended to six bouts between the two, despite Robinson winning five of those fights.   Some may ask why where there six fights between the two given not only that ...

  Most associate trilogies as the third  chapter serving as the finale . In Boxing however, most trilogies  arrive at chapter 3 with a simple process. This process usually consists of two fighters splitting two heated  fights, which leads to the culmination of the rivalry  between the two in what is thought to be the final battle, the third fight.     The rivalry between  undefeated two-time Heavyweight world champion Tyson  Fury and former WBC Heavyweight world champion  Deontay  Wilder  has not been one that  most would call a “Normal” trilogy. For it was in their first fight in December 2018 that Wilder ,  the then  unbeaten WBC world champion overcame a  deficit on the scorecards  by scoring two knockdowns of  Fury including  a near fight ending knockdown in the twelfth and final round to earn a draw to retain his crown. A decision that even with two knockdowns  in his favor, some fel...