It has hosted some of the more high-profile, non-Las Vegas fights in recent years, including Jorge Paez-Stevie Cruz in 1989; Orlando Canizales-Paul Gonzales (1990); Erik Morales-Daniel...
Samuel Peter has tasted defeat only once in his career and the man they call the Nigerian Nightmare does not intend revisit that feeling. On Thursday December...
Bernard Dunne is set to take Europe by storm. The unbeaten Dubliner’s next outing comes this Saturday night when he travels to Germany on a big...
Carl Froch believes there is nothing preventing him from completing the traditional title path following his impressive fifth round stoppage win over Ruben Groenewald last Friday,...
It could be the type of card that people once saw on the Madison Square Garden marquee. Three 10-round bouts, each with a world-class fighter. It remains...
Next summer. That’s when Jermain Taylor’s promoter, Lou DiBella, suggested that Taylor might be ready to defend his middleweight crown against No. 1 contender Winky Wright....
Making sense in a wager when betting on a fighter that is a -800 favorite is a near impossibility. This Saturday on HBO, however, that is...
In recent months we have turned the microscope on the strange activities of the world sanctioning bodies. This is no investigation that relies on anonymous sources...
Dec. 4, 1916: Future lightweight champion and Hall of Famer Lew Jenkins is born in Milburn, Texas. Dec. 4, 1999: IBF junior middleweight champion Fernando Vargas...
Teddy B. Blackburn has been one of boxing’s premier photographers for the past 15 years. Prior to moving to New York in 1990, the 47-year-old native...
NEW YORK (Dec. 8, 2005)—Brooklyn native Zab “Super” Judah will make his first title defense in New York since becoming the undisputed world welterweight champion in...
“I'm gonna live forever Baby remember my name Remember Remember Remember Remember Remember Remember Remember Remember” – Irene Cara There are a few perks that go...
A fighter should never be more focused than when challenging for the heavyweight title. The champion be damned, the contender’s years of hard work are culminating...
Actor Tony Lip is best known as the late Carmine Lupertazzi Sr., the crime boss he played for three seasons on HBO’s hit television series “The...
When we spotted the Ringside Lounge in Jersey City, we knew the club show couldn’t be far away. A decision was made that after the fights...
All the rhetoric should be behind us now, shoved under a rug, off a cliff or maybe behind a shelf, wherever it is that accusations, sarcasm...
I just returned from dropping my International Boxing Hall of Fame ballot off at the mailbox And as is starting to become an annual ritual, as...
This business of paying good money for bad exhibitions disguised as prizefights has gotten out of hand. The whole notion of pay-per-view made a little sense...
When super bantamweight Roberto Benitez made the 2000 United States Olympic team as an alternate to Jose Navarro, he was besieged with offers to turn professional...
The Italian fighters who won the Olympic gold medal, won a legitimate professional world championship, attracted thousands of paying customers at the sports complex and drew...
