When a boxer reaches 33, as the humongous Russian Nicolay Valuev did on Aug. 21, it becomes more than prudent to at least consider what you’ll...
There were hints, little things that made Lester Bedford think he wouldn’t be a part of Team Real Deal for much longer while he was overseeing...
Mad Max Kellerman has returned to form on HBO's BAD, and that is both a welcome development and a source of annoyance. It's a good thing...
We’re all dirtbags of a sort, Texas event marketer Lester Bedford tells me in so many words. You’re a dirtbag. I’m a dirtbag. All the managers,...
Hasim Rahman knows how to play the media relations game. He’s amiable and approachable, and the skeptic in me thinks that this reason as much as...
There will be a time, in the not that distant future, when he will not be around to entertain you any more. There will be a...
He’d been drilled and had the tweety birds dancing over his head, compliments of Oliver McCall, in his fifth fight, in 1996. Oleg Maskaev could have...
Admit this for me. You 1) thought Prince Badi was going to upset Roy Jones Jr. and send him into retirement and 2) you would have...
It was not, looking back, a marriage made in Heaven. The concept of NBC and The Contender coming together, and making sweet music together, came from...
It seemed like a good idea on paper. Collect the sons and a cousin of standout pugilists from yesteryear, and televise the offspring so fight fans...