Joseph Santoliquito

Joseph Santoliquito Joseph Santoliquito is the president of the Boxing Writer's Association of America and a frequent contributor to Sherdog.com's mixed martial arts and boxing coverage. He is also an award-winning writer who has written for ESPN The Magazine, Sports Illustrated, SI.com and ESPN.com. He's a two-time Emmy Award nominee in 2006 for feature stories for ESPN/ESPN.com on blind baseball and ESPN SportsCenter/HBO Real Sports feature on high school wrestler A.J. Detwiler. He was formerly a long-time sportwriter for the Philadelphia Daily News and Managing Editor of Ring Magazine for 14 years, where he began in October 1997. He has been a contributing feature writer for Sherdog since September 2011.

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Shattered One Sunday Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Matt Grice on Sept. 8, 2013, was involved in a near-fatal car accident that forever changed his life and...

Joseph Santoliquito

May 26, 2015

Showtime Exec: Social Media Made Mayweather vs. Pacquiao Buy Records Possible It took nine weeks. It’s hard to conceive now, in retrospect, that in 63 days the biggest fight in boxing history was somehow pieced together...

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

May 12, 2015

Oscar De La Hoya: ‘Canelo’ Alvarez Fights for Pride, not the Prize Oscar De La Hoya couldn’t help but cringe Saturday night. With the world watching what was supposed to be a fight, instead was entertained...

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

May 07, 2015

Why Boxing Wouldn’t Mind Seeing Manny Pacquiao Kick Floyd Mayweather’s Ass From the outside looking in, he’s hard to like. There have been so many incidents, so many pieces left behind that once gathered, cobbled...

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

May 02, 2015

Secretly Pulling for Pacquiao, Boxing Community Thinks Mayweather Jr. Will Win An informal poll reveals that many involved with the Sweet Science want to see Manny Pacquiao leave the ring victorious.

Joseph Santoliquito

Apr 29, 2015

Boxing: Danny Jacobs is Ready to Make More Miracles Happen Danny Jacobs knows what it’s like looking over the edge.

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

Apr 24, 2015

Boxing: Ruslan Provodnikov Ready to Bust Out Against Lucas Matthysse Ruslan Provodnikov is an anachronism, more hewn it seems from a sepia-tinged time when television fights were shown on flickering...

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

Apr 18, 2015

Mayweather-Pacquiao: 5 Common Opponents A number of fighters have shared the stage with both Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao ahead of their May 2 showdown.

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

Apr 15, 2015

Stories from the Road: Monte Cox From newspaperman to manager-promoter extraordinaire, he has plenty of tales to tell about MMA and its colorful characters.

Joseph Santoliquito

Apr 14, 2015

What Mayweather-Pacquiao Means for Their Legacies Manny Pacquiao has everything to gain and Floyd Mayweather Jr. has everything to lose in their May 2 showdown, writes Joseph Santoliquito.

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

Mar 31, 2015