Perfect foils make classic fights; the boxer versus the puncher, the gentleman versus the savage. Seeing complete opposites face off in the ring elevates a simple...
Ten questions for IBF super-middleweight champ Jeff Lacy (21-0, 17 KOs) who is scheduled to fight undefeated WBO champion Joe Calzaghe (40-0, 31 KOs) on March...
Do you want to know how much the WBC’s heavyweight ratings are worth? Just take a gander at their latest stunt that pushes James Toney up...
NEW YORK – When George Washington decided to hang up his gloves for good in 1796, he left his fellow pugilists with an admonition to “avoid...
NEW YORK (November 21, 2005) – DiBella Entertainment will cap off the year in the season's finale of “Broadway Boxing,” presented by Turning Stone Resort &...
Not long ago, I posted a story here at The Sweet Science entitled “For boxing, here’s the problem….and maybe the solution” which, in part, talked about...
Former light heavyweight contender “Irish” Bobby Cassidy, fight analyst for The Sweet Science, is instantly identified with the legendary fight venue of Sunnyside Garden in Queens,...
It was El Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, a time in these southwestern parts where many pronunciations and traditions honor the deceased....
Well, the reign of heavyweight champ Vitali Klitschko is over before it really got started. The giant Ukrainian was supposed to fight former titlist Hasim Rahman...
Back in the early- to mid-nineties, Orlando Fernandez of Queens, New York, earned his bones as an assistant trainer to such local championship caliber fighters as...
UNCASVILLE, CT (November 21, 2005) – The first class to be inducted into the Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame will be honored on Thursday, December 1st...
Fighters are dreamers, men who relentlessly chase the end of the rainbow during those endless hours of solitary work. Two men who caught their dreams last...
“Bring it on, Bring it onDon’t wait until tomorrowBring it onBring it onBring it on” – Seal Last weekend, Kevin Iole (a writer I respect) wrote...
PORTLAND, Oregon – Floyd Mayweather continued his campaign along the way to greatness with a sixth round stoppage of Sharmba Mitchell in the odd setting of...
Sure, Floyd Mayweather is the best fighter in the world, pound-for-pound, but where should he positioned in history? Should he be considered an all-time great already?...
SATURDAY Portland, OR — Welterweights FLOYD MAYWEATHER -1200 SHARMBA MITCHELL +1000 Mitchell’s way outclassed MAYWEATHER–MITCHELL — Will enter Round 8 -145 — Will end before Round...
There was no doubt about Floyd Mayweather in the beginning. No doubt at all. The future junior lightweight, lightweight and junior welterweight champion of the world...
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Greater New Haven Athletic Center) – “Bad” Chad Dawson, 19-0, 1 NC, (14 KOs), New Haven, 166¼, scored an 11th round knockout over...
“Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather, Jr. validates the theory of evolution. His father, Floyd, Sr., and his uncles, Jeff and Roger, were talented professional fighters. Roger became...
Robert Cassidy Jr. of Newsday and The Sweet Science and his dad, former light heavyweight contender “Irish” Bobby Cassidy, a fight analyst for The Sweet Science...
