Boxing is no game. The stakes are too high, the losses too finite, the terms too extreme to take lightly. I wanted to explore the dangers...
The Blue Horizon is to boxing what Valley Forge is to nation building. Both are historic venues, battlefields’ battlefields, where blood was spilled for a noble...
When most of us on this side of the pond think of British heavyweights we think of Lennox Lewis. But there’s Frank Bruno, who fought Tyson...
This Saturday from Little Rock, Arkansas, DiBella Entertainment, in association with Don King Productions and HBO’s Boxing After Dark, presents “Season’s Beatings,” featuring Jermain Taylor (21...
Former middleweight champion Rocky Graziano personified Nu Yawk. He was born Thomas Rocca Barbella in a Rivington Street tenement in 1922 and came of age on...
“If I felt any better,” Jack Johnson quipped a hundred years ago, “I’d be scared of myself.” Jack Johnson was the first African American to win...
The average guy on the street may not know Winky Wright, but students of the fight game do. Wright is the WBC and WBA super welterweight...
You gotta hand it to Don King. Like Old Man River, he just keeps rolling along. Month after month, year after year, decade after decade he...
Jameel “Big Time” McCline is fighting for the heavyweight title against Chris Byrd at Madison Square Garden tonight. McCline is a 265-pound, 6'6″ prizefighter with a...
Some think Andrew Golota redeemed himself when he fought Chris Byrd for the IBF title last April in the Garden. Some think Golota is a joke....