Ignacio “Nacho” Beristain grew up as an orphan in Mexico City and found that boxing was a way to cope with the inevitable would-be predators that...
Cameroon’s Australia based Sakio Bika becomes the 42nd man to try to blemish Joe Calzaghe’s pristine professional record this weekend, when the two clash for the...
Americans just don’t respect British fighters, so when Joe Calzaghe met our own Jeff “Left Hook” Lacy earlier this year it was expected to be a...
Last October 8 in Milan, one of the biggest cards of the last ten years was promoted by Salvatore Cherchi. In the main event, Giovanni Parisi...
The RING magazine lauds Calzaghe, but others say not so fast IBF/WBO super middleweight king Joe Calzaghe was honored by The RING magazine today in Manchester...
One afternoon two summers ago, Kevin McBride’s handlers had invited the media over to the South Boston Boxing Club to bear witness to his final sparring...
Saturday was a great night for boxing fans with four big bouts on tap for aficionados, as Showtime and HBO did their part to both help...
There is nothing like starting at the top in boxing. Getting on top is a different matter. In 1975, Rafael Lovera of Paraguay got knocked out...
The weigh-in before the fight is controlled by rules and by ritual. Two men, bare-chested, challenging each other with hard eyes and hard muscles, as each...
Sean “The Irish Express” Fitzgerald of Worcester, Massachusetts, was exhorting his fighter, undefeated middleweight Enrique Palau, to stay calm as Palau feverishly tried to stop durable...