NEW YORK — Paulie Malignaggi knew going in, as did the rest of us, that he would be fighting two opponents at the Hammerstein Ballroom Saturday...
I used to watch the “Contender” when it first aired on TV. It was about prize fighting and prize fighters and it seemed to have a...
Eddie Sanchez has a gangly physique, and looks like he should have slow hands and like he'd be easy to hit. Yes, the 31-year-old New Orleans-based...
Ring announcer and disc jockey David Diamante has played by his own rules for all of his life. You need not look past his long dreadlocks...
Sugar Shane Mosley’s decisive victory over Brooklyn’s Luis Collazo left many spectators shaking their heads in wonderment. Even Collazo had to bow his head at his...
“I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves … a good boxer is an artist … Boxing is existential — some...
TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION — Ricardo “Rocky” Juarez cruised along the fast lane comeback trail, speeding past what ended up as not much more than noble roadkill...
Hidden away from the public eye for more than a year, Ishe Smith has arisen from a sea of prizefighters like a lost sunken treasure. Sugar...
You won’t find a more rock-solid boxer and human being than undefeated junior middleweight prospect Henry Crawford of Paterson, New Jersey. He will put his 13-0-1...
In the movies, Rocky Balboa trained for his fights by punching sides of beef in a Philadelphia slaughterhouse. Vidal Flores didn’t do that at the various...