Rematches are the bedrock for prizefighting. Return battles between rival boxers always means their first encounter was riveting and successful at the box office. Six months...
One couldn’t write a book about prizefighting’s most eccentric characters without including former lightweight champion Livingstone Bramble who passed away last Saturday (March 22) at age...
George Foreman had two careers as a prizefighter. He finished his first career with a record of 45-2 and his second career with a record of...
Sebastian Fundora proved too tall and too powerful for challenger Chordale Booker in retaining the WBC and WBO super welterweight titles by TKO on Saturday in...
Bernard Fernandez Reflects on His Special Bond with George Foreman For pretty much the entirety of my career as a sportswriter, I have doggedly adhered to...
In his first fight at 140 pounds and his first fight in Sydney, his hometown, in more than eight years, George Kambosos Jr scored a...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 318: Aussie Action, Vegas and More Twenty-six million Aussies can’t be wrong. All eyes will be focused on an Aussie boxing card that...
Spared Prison by a Lenient Judge, Chordale Booker Pursues a World Boxing Title “I always wanted to be great. Not great like Muhammad Ali; just great...
On Sunday, March 16 (the night before St. Patrick’s Day), Callum Walsh continued his move up the junior-middleweight ranks with a brutal first-round knockout of Dean...
Irish luck was not involved as Callum Walsh won the battle of hard-hitting southpaws over Dean Sutherland by knockout on Sunday. One right hook was all...
Fighting in his hometown, Liverpool’s five-foot-two fireplug Nick “The Wrecking” Ball stopped TJ Doheny after 10 progressively more one-sided rounds to retain his WBA belt in...
As Callum Walsh stood on the observation deck at the top of the Empire State Building with fists clenched, it harked back to actor Jimmy Cagney,...
“He wants to test himself and find out just how good he really is,” said International Boxing Hall of Fame promoter Russell Peltz regarding super lightweight...
Overshadowed by countrymen Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani, Kenshiro Teraji embossed his Hall of Fame credentials in Tokyo tonight with a dramatic 12th-round stoppage of Seigo...
The combination of age and ring rust made Keith Thurman a tricky proposition against Brock Jarvis, but the 36-year-old Floridian, a former WBA and WBC world...
Friday Boxing Recaps: Observations on Conlan, Eubank, Bahdi, and David Jimenez March 7 was an unusually heavy Friday for professional boxing. The show that warranted the...
Ben Shalom’s BOXXER Promotions was at London’s historic Royal Albert Hall tonight with an all-female card topped by a welterweight unification fight between WBC/IBF belt-holder Natasha...
So, they want to save boxing? A group of guys with recent ties to the sport of boxing and bags of money suddenly believe they can...
During the last decade covering boxing, Sean Nam has tackled, without fear or favor, many interesting and thought-provoking subjects. Nam’s feature on Ukrainian ringmaster Vasiliy Lomachenko, which...
The marquee match on this week’s fight docket takes place on Friday at London’s historic Royal Albert Hall where Natasha Jonas (16-2-1, 9 KOs) meets Lauren...
