Women’s boxing has always stirred controversy. The people who think it should be banned say that nobody likes a woman with a broken nose or a cut...
The death of Najai Turpin should have warned us as to the destructiveness of “The Contender” reality series. A gritty and talented fighter out of Philadelphia,...
North Bergen, New Jersey’s venerable Schuetzen Park ballroom will be the site of some major fight action on the evening of November 30th, as Bloomfield-based Main...
Hank Kaplan of The Sweet Science is not just the foremost boxing historian in the world, he is also well-known throughout the boxing industry for his...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Hard Rock Live Arena) — Zuri Lawrence, 20-10-4, 1 NC (0 KOs), Wappinger Falls, New York, 238½, won a major upset by taking a...
It was with great delight that I received a letter from onetime journeyman heavyweight Lou Benson Jr. of Baltimore on October 17. Although the 48-year-old Benson,...
FRIDAY Temecula, CA — Jr. Middleweights VERNON FORREST -2000 ELCO GARCIA +1700 FORREST–GARCIA — Will end before Round 8 -145 — Will enter Round 8 +135...
Once upon a time, New York City’s Chris Smith was a celebrated prospect on the fast track to boxing glory. He was immensely likeable, had a...
Highly acclaimed amateur John O'Donnell, who has recently moved up to welterweight, will fight at the home of British Boxing for the first time as a...
Junior Witter – who looked in fantastic shape as he made the weight at the first time of asking this afternoon for his triple title defense...
The choice was simple for David Tua. Either get hit with punches or a frying pan. He preferred to take his chances against the heavyweight division....
Junior middleweight Yuri Foreman is planning on a sweet New Year. In keeping with Jewish tradition, he ate apples with honey on Rosh Hashanah—the sweetness symbolizing...
All sports enshrine or damn its participants far too soon. Boxing is no different. A fighter often finds his career facing definition in some blockbuster extravaganza....
Big news in the flyweight division out of Bangkok, Thailand. Negotiations are now underway for a WBC flyweight championship showdown between longtime champion Pongsaklek Wongjamkam and...
LOS ANGELES (October 20, 2005) – After two fights and two knockouts, Oscar Larios and Israel Vazquez, the two premier super bantamweights in the world, still...
Gianluca Branco is one of the best Italian fighters of the last ten years. He dominated the super lightweight division on his own continent, winning the...
Tony Sims-trained lightweight Dave Stewart is not looking past his fight against Judex Meemea on the Junior Witter vs. Colin Lynes undercard this Friday, October 21,...
ZAGREB, Croatia—After World Boxing Council light heavyweight champion Tomasz Adamek successfully defended his title for the first time against mandatory challenger Thomas Ulrich by sixth-round knockout...
Undisputed middleweight champ Jermain Taylor is like the guy who starts late, gets lost, takes out a stop sign and still ends up with the best...
While attending the State University of New York at Brockport back in the late seventies, I had several experiences and met some unique people who would...
