Last November 19, Semmy Schilt won the K-1 World Grand Prix tournament held at the Tokyo Dome, in front of 58,213 spectators. The Dutchman also won...
The date was March 19, 1963. The place was Sunnyside Garden and the fight card was filled with a bunch of New York prospects. The main...
Training for his fights was his life, defending his IBF middleweight championship his vocation. His mature mission in life was to prove himself to the world,...
“Former champ Agapito Sanchez dies from gunshot wounds,” the headlines read last week. “Oh, typical,” you sigh. “Yet another fighter scraps his way to glory, but...
WEDNESDAY Providence — Super Middleweights JOE SPINA -550 JOSE SPEARMAN +500 This is a decent, veteran test for 17-0 Spina Providence — Heavyweights JASON ESTRADA -1400...
In the beginning For nearly 50 years, actor Charles Bronson was the classic cinematic tough guy. He’ll probably always be one of my favorite actors and...
When consensus heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko hung up his boxing gloves for good, he, like his predecessor Lennox Lewis, left a big void at the top...
The way undefeated featherweight prospect Matt Remillard of Manchester, Connecticut, sees it, boxing found him – he didn’t find it. In fact, it wasn’t even his...
Undaunted by the fight’s banishment from California, Rickard, who had already sold $133,000 worth of tickets, with the strong backing of Nevada Gov. Denver S. Dickerson,...
Giorgio Campanella had an outstanding amateur career, winning four Italian titles (in the lightweight and super lightweight divisions) and the European championship (at super lightweight). Between...
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...
