The fictional Rocky Balboa lost a split decision to Apollo Creed in the first installment of the fecund “Rocky” series. Thirty-five years later in Warren, Ohio,...
There are two ways of looking at Don King. There was a day when the former Cleveland street hustler was the pre-eminent boxing promoter in the...
The boxing competition at the Tokyo Olympics is over and for the fourth straight Olympiad the U.S. team was bereft of a gold medalist. But the...
On Saturday, April 10, Ebanie Bridges fought Shannon Courtenay for the vacant WBA world bantamweight championship. The fact that Courtenay-Bridges was a “world championship” fight is...
The 1980s brought two new sanctioning bodies into boxing. The IBF, founded in 1983, and the WBO (1988) came along to challenge the established organizations. More...
Don King promoted a fight card on January 29 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. But the more significant story is what happened...
Manuel Charr and Fres Oquendo were scheduled to fight in Cologne, Germany, later this month (Sept. 29). Charr would be defending his WBA world heavyweight title,...
The World Boxing Association announced on their website earlier this week that they are stripping 122 lb titleholder Carl Frampton (22-0) for refusing to meet Guillermo...
Newspapers in England are reporting that the rematch between Tyson Fury and Wladimir Klitschko will be held at the 20,000-seat Manchester Arena on July 9. The...
WBA Light Heavyweight Title on Line – WBA World Lightheavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer (47-2) is set to make the sixth defense of his belt as he faces...