On his very first trip to the United States, and in only his third fight fought outside of his native South Africa, Takalani Ndlovu won the...
No one can say that Hasim Rahman has ever been a reluctant warrior. Having faced Lennox Lewis, David Tua (twice each), Evander Holyfield, Corrie Sanders and...
I thoroughly enjoyed writing the “Operation Cleanup” books. In undertaking that project, my goal was to put something together covering the kind of ground that had...
In February of 1961, a fighter named Jim Robinson, allegedly out of Kansas City, climbed into a Miami Beach ring with 19-year-old Cassius Clay as a...
Gleason’s Gym is the most famous boxing gym in the world. Founded in 1937 by Italian-American Roberto Galiardi (who changed his name in Bobby Gleason to...
The Mohegan Tribal Department of Athletic Regulation will play host to the annual officials’ seminar of the Association of Boxing Commissions (ABC), to be held Saturday,...
SATURDAY Lancaster, CA — Jr. Featherweights JUAN DIAZ -220 PRIEST SMALLS +200 Six KO’s in 20 wins for Diaz Montreal — Heavyweights PATRICK L’HEUREUX–JOSH GUTCHER —...
FRIDAY Chicago — Lightweights JUAN LAZCANO -700 COURTNEY BURTON +600 LAZCANO–BURTON — Will enter Round 10 -130 — Will end before Round 10 +120 Burton’s last...
Shortly after being knocked down four times and stopped in the fourth round by the red-hot middleweight prospect “Irish” John Duddy, now 13-0 (12 KOs), at...
He was a “wonder-child” of boxing; in fact, it became a wondrous event that he became a boxer, let alone that he ascended to world titledom....
Lenny Daws is still happy to take up his right to make a mandatory challenge for the English light welterweight title, despite current champion Nigel Wright’s...
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (November 11, 2005) – Unified cruiserweight world Champion Jean-Marc Mormeck and International Boxing Federation cruiserweight champion O’Neil “Super Nova” Bell have signed to...
Silvio Branco is one of the few Italian fighters who has built a reputation abroad. He has fought top opposition in Scotland, England, France, Germany and...
This is a tough way to say goodbye, limping off into the sunset with your hat in your hands, your paycheck cancelled and your title belt...
Sonny Liston was a brute of a man. His fists measured fourteen inches in circumference. He could knock men out with his left jab. His opponents...
THURSDAY Philadelphia — USBA 175-lb. title YUSEF MACK -500 CHRISTIAN CRUZ +450 MACK–CRUZ — Will go full distance -155 — Will end inside distance +145 Mack...
Last Friday night the unthinkable happened to one of Andre Rozier’s protégés. Super middleweight Jaidon Codrington, the brightest prospect in New York, was knocked out in...
Klong Luang Prison, Pathumthanee, Thailand – Promoted by Naris Boxing Promotions It certainly wasn’t Muhammad Ali or even Laila Ali, but short of a prison break...
It has been nearly a year since we last witnessed WBC heavyweight titlist Vitali Klitschko entering a boxing ring to wage fistic combat and now of...
When Beethavean Scottland, a 26-year-old light-heavyweight from North Brentwood, Maryland, was beaten into a coma by George Khalid Jones on June 26, 2001 aboard the USS...
