Roy Jones Jr. finally stepped out of the shadows and into the spotlight on Thursday. For all of 15 gripping seconds. That’s about how long it...
(Introduction by Charles Jay, Editor-in-Chief, The Sweet Science) Some time after the movie “Million Dollar Baby” won the Academy Award for Best Picture, I released an...
Mickey Rourke, star of the film “Barfly,” based on Charles Bukowski’s thinly disguised autobiography about booze and literature, and one of the few Tinsel Town golden boys to have...
Showtime brings us the welcome return of James Toney, back at last from steroid Siberia. Lights Out gets it on with Dominick Guinn on the undercard...
Showtime delivers with their heavyweight doubleheader Saturday night. At the top of the card is Chris Byrd defending his IBF belt against DaVarryl “Touch of Sleep”...
HBO PPV goes all out with Tarver-Jones III. Roy Jones Jr. wants to set the record straight. He wants revenge for his kayo loss to Antonio...
What can you say about a fighter who is returning to the ring after being savagely knocked out in back-to-back fights? All you can wish for...
This is our fifth installment of the Grant Top 25 Heavyweights. This month saw a tremendous show by top heavyweights Wladimir Klitschko and Sam Peter. Given the...
Just a few short weeks ago heavyweight Brian “The Beast” Minto of Butler, Pennsylvania, believed that his quickest route to a world title would be by...
“I've seen everything he has. I know from the last fight, he tried to come at me, and he ended up just running away. He did...
Appearing to have succumbed to the one invincible opponent to which all champions must eventually relent, age, Roy Jones Jr. will step back into the ring...
Aussie KO king Nedal Hussein has told Scott Harrison to expect fireworks on Bonfire night when he challenges for the Scotsman's WBO world featherweight title. Hussein...
They brought in better sparring partners to give Antonio Tarver some different looks, force him to think a little more when the punches start arriving at...
HAMBURG, Germany (September 28, 2005) – Luan Krasniqi entered the ring to deafening applause from the over 10,000 German partisans on hand at the Color Line...
Heavyweight prospect Vinny Maddalone of Queens, New York, is very convincing when he says that he won’t turn his highly anticipated October 1 rematch with Brian...
HAMBURG, Germany (September 28, 2005) – Don King arrived in Hamburg on Sunday night to join WBO heavyweight champion “Relentless” Lamon Brewster, who arrived in Germany...
Some heavyweight champions are larger than life. Certainly Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Jack Johnson immediately come to mind. But with less than a...
Two steps forward, three steps back, forget the good, remember the bad. That seems to be the path boxing is taking nowadays. Where the path leads...
Saturday night on HBO we witnessed Dr. Wladimir Klitschko pass another test on his way to second run to a heavyweight title shot. This time “Economics”...
Eighty-eight years ago this week, the Milwaukee Sentinel sent Jack Dougherty to his grave. The Wisconsin newspaper didn’t cause the demise of Dougherty, but rather insured...