After a bit of a drought, our thirst for boxing will be slaked this weekend. On Saturday, August 6, on Showtime, Jeff “Left Hook” Lacy defends...
FRIDAY South Africa — Bantamweights SIMPIWE VETYEKA–SAKHUMZI BONGWANA — Will enter Round 8 -140 — Will end before Round 8 +130 Only question here – will...
How’s this for a “Where Are They Now” story? After a tough primary campaign in which there were 120 candidates on the ballot, former lightweight champion...
Championship territory from the 1920s into the 1980s traditionally was rounds 11 through 15. It was a mountain which I believe many fighters are unprepared to...
Lou DiBella and his partner Damon Dash will continue to keep New York City club boxing alive with their latest installment of Broadway Boxing tonight, Thursday,...
NEW YORK (August 3, 2005) – On the heels of a Caribbean vacation with his family, DiBella Entertainment's undisputed middleweight champion of the world, Jermain Taylor,...
This is the third monthly edition of the Grant Top 25 Heavyweights. I am a somewhat reluctant warrior in attempting to put words on a page...
TAMPA, Fla. (August 3, 2005) – With a world title unification showdown looming against World Boxing Organization (WBO) 168-pound titleholder Joe Calzaghe later this year, International...
CHICAGO (August 3, 2005) – WBC #1 ranked contender Rocky Juarez will challenge WBC #2 ranked contender Humberto Soto for the WBC Interim Featherweight Championship on...
CHICAGO—Former heavyweight world champion and Chicago native Oliver “The Atomic Bull” McCall has agreed to step in to fight Przemyslaw “Chemek” Saleta on Don King’s “Global...
‘Be a clown. Be a clown. All the world loves a clown’… All that was needed was baggy pants and pratfalls at the Beverly Hills Hotel...
NEW YORK (Aug. 3, 2005) – Lights (Out), camera, action! Heavyweight superstar James Toney is back in action and returning to the ring on SHOWTIME. The...
The fighter Shelby “Girl” Walker is 5'7″ tall, weighs 130 pounds, and her record is 7-4-1 (6 KOs). On August 26 in Providence, RI, Walker challenges...
Different things happen to different fighters as they enter the downside of their professional careers. For a fortunate few, they realize that their best days are...
By his own admission, Kirino Garcia was a petty thief, a street hustler, a panhandler, one of the thousands of cold-hearted lions that prowled the subterranean...
Boxer vs. puncher matchups usually deliver entertaining encounters, and the South African junior flyweight title bout between Muvhuso Nedzanani (13-1-2, 8 KOs) and Vuyani “Pretty Boy”...
Junior Witter has moved closer to a shot at a genuine world title having recently been installed into the top three in all of boxing's major governing bodies' light...
LOS ANGELES (August 2, 2005) – It's a boxing rarity, putting a group of Olympic fighters who reached the pinnacle of amateur boxing together in the...
“The moon travels slowly, but it crosses the town.” This Ghanaian proverb belonging to the Akan people accurately describes one of their own, boxing trainer Kwame...
The sport of boxing is in desperate need of a spark to electrify its spirits. We are losing fans due to lackluster alphabet soup champions (IBO,...
