BOXING history dictates that both Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue, who grace the cover this week as the leading fighters in the sport, will one day lose a fight. Furthermore, it will likely happen sooner rather than later.
The cover of the first boxing magazine I remember buying featured the best two boxers of and the pink background did nothing to soften the fearsomeness of the cover stars. Hagler, eyeballing the lens, was wearing his famous ‘Destruction and Destroy’ vest, and Curry, fresh off a stunning two-round blitzing of Milton McCrory, glistened in a blood-red gown. ‘CO-FIGHTERS OF THE YEAR’ was the headline.
