Jungle Fever In 1927, William “Gorilla” Jones, 20, was invited to fight in Akron, Ohio by promoter Suey Welch. Jones accepted the offer, toyed with his...
Mike Lee beat overmatched Gary Tapusoa at Resorts World Casino in Queens, NY on Saturday night, in the first installment of boxing on CBS Sports Network,...
Boxing is back, baby. Wishful thinking when I say that, when I write that? Excessively optimistic? Blinders on, because I seek the resurgence of the entity...
“I was meant to be a champion when I walked into Doc Keppner’s gym. I just didn’t know it.”—Terri Moss There is a cost to living...
He remains skeptical, does Larry Merchant, that MayPac gets made. But, he admitted to me, his main source of lowdown on whether Money-Manny gets made is...
The thing about drug addicts and alcoholics is that it’s hard to feel sorry for them. It’s not that we don’t recognize the validity of their...
MONDAY UPDATE: Hopes were dashed, for those brave (and foolish?) souls who had an inkling, whose hopefullness over-rode their common sense, and my Tweeted warnings that...
It was Saturday night, February 10, 1990 in the United States, or if you were in Tokyo Japan, it was the 11th. And Mike Tyson 37-0...
34. Not old. But not young, not for a boxer not named Hopkins. Clock ticks, screwjobs by judges stick in the craw, but can’t let the...
As most boxing fans know, Carl Froch 33-2 (24) recently vacated his IBF Super middleweight title and is nearing the end of his career. Froch has...