Once upon a time, Pat Putnam and I drove to the baseball hall of fame at Cooperstown. It was interesting. On our way back to Pat’s...
NEW YORK (Dec. 19, 2005) – SHOWTIME On Demand will replay two exciting SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecasts from 2005 featuring the undisputed welterweight champion Zab Judah...
ESPN Classic serves up some classic boxing on Boxing Day, December 26, from 12 noon ET to 12 midnight ET. Hosted by Russ Anber, the programming...
For the third time in one year, big-time boxing returned to Milan. Until the 1980s, Milan was the top boxing city in Italy. The famed Palalido...
BERLIN—When the undefeated giant Russian Nicolay “The Beast from the East” Valuev entered the ring in Berlin on Saturday—all 7 feet and 323½ pounds of him—to...
A new star in the heavyweight division emerged Thursday night at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Russian Olympic silver medalist Sultan Ibragimov...
BERLIN (December 18, 2005) – In a fight not televised in the U.S., Nicolay Valuev, aka the Beast from the East, decisioned WBA heavyweight champion John...
The fight between on-again-off-again WBA heavyweight titlist John Ruiz and Russian Nicolay Valuev was considered a non-US televised sideshow. It was, that is, until a knee...
The St. Petersburg Times has reported today that there may be a place for Mike Tyson in Winky Wright’s newly-formed promotional company, Winky Promotions. The Times...
At noon on December 10, the New York City Patrolman’s Benevolent Association, Sergeants Benevolent Association, and Detectives Endowment Association hosted their annual holiday luncheon for the...
Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis used to be master of the long silence. More of a chess player than a gangsta rapper, the Lion of Judah...
During my visits to boxing gyms in the United States, I was asked many times about Luigi Minchillo. Fighters, trainers and managers still remember him as...
FAIRFAX, VA (December 15, 2005) – Jimmy Lange (26-2-1, 17 KOs) and Joey Gilbert (10-1, 7 KOs) will square off for the North American Boxing Organization...
Ten questions for publicist Fred Sternburg of Sternburg Communications, Inc., who was honored with the 2004 Marvin Kohn “Good Guy” award this spring by the Boxing...
SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING begins its 20th year of televising fights with a world championship doubleheader on Jan. 7, 2006 (9 p.m., ET/PT, delayed on the west...
They write you off quickly in this game. Regardless of past achievements, you’re only one bad outing from being dismissed as gutless, soft, unskilled, and overhyped....
Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins is likely in his final hour and his seemingly never-ending farewell party was once again spoiled on December 3 by the younger,...
BERLIN—The final press conference prior to John “The Quietman” Ruiz’s defense of his World Boxing Association heavyweight championship against Nicolay “Giant Russian” Valuev, which will take...
Promoter Lou DiBella will put on his annual “Season’s Beatings” Christmas extravaganza in the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center in New York on Thursday, December...
Sebastian Rothman, who put up a tremendous challenge against O’Neil Bell recently in a bid for the IBF cruiserweight world title, has cut ties with his...
