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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Boxing: Mayweather’s Risk-Reward Conundrum As this generation’s best boxer, Floyd Mayweather Jr. will need to stick his neck out more if he wants to break a million pay-per-view buys again.

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

Sep 30, 2014

Boxing: Nothing but a Number, Right? As Floyd Mayweather Jr. barrels toward his rematch with Marcos Maidana, many wonder whether or not age is creeping up on him.

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

Sep 12, 2014

Boxing: Marcos Maidana and the Oscar De La Hoya Blueprint All signs point to the 8-to-1 underdog following a plan to beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. that was first laid out by the 1992 Olympic gold medalist.

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

Sep 12, 2014

Boxing: Shawn Porter’s Next Step to Stardom With the stakes increasing, Shawn Porter looks to defend his IBF welterweight world title against Kell Brook on Saturday in Carson, Calif.

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

Aug 16, 2014

Boxing: Danny Garcia and the Floyd Mayweather Jr. Sweepstakes PHILADELPHIA -- Danny Garcia cannot sit still. He has actually never been able to sit still. Even during training, the WBA and WBC junior...

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

Aug 08, 2014

Boxing: Sergey Kovalev Fully Loaded One of boxing’s most devastating punchers, Sergey Kovalev puts his undefeated record on the line against Blake Caparello on Saturday in...

Joseph Santoliquito

Jul 31, 2014

Boxing: ‘GGG’ on Verge of Crossover Stardom Gennady Golovkin, boxing’s most devastating puncher, will defend the WBA middleweight championship against Daniel Geale on Saturday in New...

Joseph Santoliquito

Jul 25, 2014

‘The Immortal’ Among Us Often cut in a tug-of-war between life and death, the UFC welterweight’s most important battles have taken place outside the cage.

Joseph Santoliquito

Jul 23, 2014

Floyd Mayweather: Facing Marcos Maidana is Like Battling an MMA Fighter NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Floyd Mayweather’s antennas are up. He won’t admit it. He never does. This time, however, it appears he did -- in a sense.

Boxing

Joseph Santoliquito

Jul 14, 2014

Boxing News: Chris Algieri Upsets Ruslan Provodnikov BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- No one expected this. Not the HBO “Boxing After Dark” audience tuning in. Not most of the 6,218 fans that were in Barclays...

Joseph Santoliquito

Jun 16, 2014