“Listen, I got a story for ya!” Anthony (Rip) Valenti sounded excited, but that wasn't unusual. Every time the octogenarian boxing promoter called to relay the...
NEW YORK — Bob Arum might be a Harvard-educated lawyer, but he's been in the fight business for more than forty years. Get him within breathing...
NEW YORK — On his last visit to New York, Joelo Torres had his hands full, and was probably fortunate to get out of town with...
NEW YORK — “The Chinese athlete,” Richard Davimos was saying, “was tailor-made to become a great boxer.” Barely a week after his relationship with his business...
Fourteen years ago I was in Atlantic City to see Vinny Pazienza challenge the undefeated super-middleweight champion, Roy Jones Jr. Pazienza lasted six rounds, but what...
NEW YORK — I could tell from the choking sound on the other end of the line that the news wasn't going to be good. It...
UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Boxing writers aren't supposed to during a fight unless they have a big bet on the outcome, but if some of the ringside...
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — There's something inevitably tragic when a man's life is snuffed out before he's spent half his allotted time on this earth, but...
DUBLIN, Ireland — Swollen shut, Oisin Fagan's left eye was the approximate size and color of a 4-ball, and blood still trickled from his split lower...
NEWARK, N.J. — When the stretch limo ferrying Tomasz Adamek over to the Prudential Center for Saturday night's title fight pulled away from the Robert Treat...