Man on a mission: As he preps for Caleb Truax, Anthony Dirrell is determined to regain his 168-pound title
Anthony Dirrell was confident of winning his first 168-pound championship defense last April against Badou Jack, a man who was two bouts removed from a 61-second stoppage loss to unheralded Derek Edwards.
Dirrell brothers team up for action-packed card on April 29
The last time brothers Andre and Anthony Dirrell fought on the same night, Barack Obama was barely 60 days into his first term as president. That drought is about to end.
With newborn twins at home, Anthony Dirrell is balancing diaper duty with decking dudes for a living
When your job entails cracking grown men in the mouth with enough force to send Chiclets slaloming down throats like clumsy snow boarders tumbling down a mountainside, you need your rest. And yet that’s something that fathers of 3-month-old twins get little of.
Anthony Dirrell savages Marco Antonio Rubio in punishing rebound win
Anthony “The Dog” Dirrell has a message, one that he delivered first with his fists and later reiterated with his words—you know, just in case you didn’t get the memo spelled out all over Marco Antonio Rubio’s swollen ribcage.
Anthony Dirrell ready for a brawl with Mexican tough guy Marco Antonio Rubio
Anthony Dirrell wasn’t fighting a sponge, because we all know that sponges are staunch pacifists. Still, the way the other dude in the ring with him soaked up his punishment and just kept on coming suggested some kind of preternatural absorptive powers.
Ring rebirth: Anthony Dirrell helps break in the new digs of the legendary Kronk Gym
Anthony Dirrell’s voice rises in unison with the temperatures he’s speaking of. “It was a fire pit down there. Oh my god!” he exclaims of a jalapeno-hot boxing heaven that felt closer to hell. “One of the hottest gyms I ever trained at. It was burning up.”
Anthony Dirrell is bouncing back from his first defeat—just don’t tell him he actually lost
It was as if there was a disconnect between his fists and what makes them fly, a broken circuit between the body and the mind.
Fighting words: The PBC Q&A with Anthony Dirrell
Marcel Proust was a French novelist who had absolutely no connection to boxing—until now.
