NEW YORK — Maybe it really happened, maybe it didn’t. But, the oft-recited and perhaps apocryphal story goes, Muhammad Ali was seated on a jet airliner...
It is a fight, most would agree, that will go far in identifying one of the more credible challengers to pretty-much-undisputed heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, with...
Out of sight, out of mind. It is the fear of losing their celebrity, or at least at some measure of relevance, that apparently spurs the...
NEW YORK – In those 1960s Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns, opportunistic gunslinger Clint Eastwood played the role of the Man With No Name. Going into Saturday...
CANASTOTA, N.Y. – It’s always a numbers game in boxing, whether the game is being played in corporate boardrooms or inside the ropes. Sunday’s 25th annual...
?The last time Bernard Hopkins registered a knockout in the ring was on Sept. 18, 2004, when he landed a left hook to the liver that...
Some call boxing the “the sweet science,” which conjures images of intricate strategies and balletic movements more reminiscent of a Nuryev or a Baryshnikov than of...
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. –Friedrich Nietzsche Pain is weakness leaving the body. –Familiar U.S. Marine Corps recruiting slogan Nietzsche, the German...
“OK, class, the subject of today’s pop quiz is women’s boxing. Stay seated and raise your hand if you think you have the correct answer, or...
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. —Albert Einstein Those who do not learn from history are doomed to...