The disdain for John Ruiz is shocking when you look at the man and his career. Dubbed the Quiet Man for his polite and courteous manner,...
For the first time in his championship career, John Ruiz fought an entertaining fight. The fans went home happy. Ruiz went home a loser. James Toney...
I was looking at the long list of heavyweight champions and their title fights, going back to the likes of Paddy Ryan, John L. Sullivan, James...
This Saturday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, the defending WBA heavyweight champion John Ruiz (41-5-1 28 KOs) defends his crown against James “Lights Out” Toney...
Fernando Montiel is in an interesting place these days, standing in that most special of doorways – the doorway every fighter sees in his dreams. The...
In a highly anticipated match-up, the two best 135-pound boxers in the world will square off when two-time World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Jose Luis...
When junior middleweight contender Raul Frank arrived in New York from his native Georgetown, Guyana, in 1990, he was all of 21-years-old and filled with the...
NEW YORK (April 29, 2005) – Minutes after the verdict was rendered in a sensational junior welterweight rematch between Jeffrey Resto of The Bronx, New York,...
If it were not so sad, it would almost be funny. There’s big John Ruiz, the Rodney Dangerfield of heavyweight champions, wondering why he has to...
James “Lights Out” Toney is a man on fire. Volatile, explosive, incendiary, and everything in-between, Toney is in New York in anticipation for this weekend’s showdown...