CHICAGO – Boxing press conferences are different than any other I’ve attended – especially when they belong to Don King. Any room the loquacious promoter walks...
In case you haven’t heard, the “Million Dollar Lady” showdown between Lucia Rijker and Christy Martin is now officially off. In case you cared, read on....
The Albuquerque Police Department wants former five-time world boxing champion Johnny Tapia for questioning about a barroom brawl on Friday. Tapia, whose ring moniker “Mi Vida...
LOS ANGELES (July 20, 2005) – With 11,992 fans in attendance at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas last Saturday night to watch the middleweight championship...
Bernard Hopkins, hot on the heels of last weekend’s controversial split-decision loss of his middleweight titles to Jermain Taylor at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas,...
Promoter hype often varies from the plausible to the hysterical, and when Scottish super featherweight Alex Arthur assumed the “Amazing” prefix and destroyed decent Hungarian Laszlo...
Lucia Rijker suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon and is out of her scheduled July 30 fight with Christy Martin. There was quite a bit of confusion...
With his split decision victory over Bernard Hopkins last Saturday, middleweight Jermain Taylor is one of boxing’s two unified, undisputed champions (welterweight Zab Judah is the...
Friends and family gathered around the telephone Wednesday afternoon to pay homage to Jermain Taylor, the new middleweight champion of the world. At least that’s what...
Since its inception four years ago this month, Showtime’s ShoBox: The New Generation has prided itself on offering quality matchups at the prospect level. Substance will...
Where in the rules of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, the WBA, WBC, IBF or WBO does it say that a champion keeps his title in...
He’s got Popeye’s arms and Mr. Rogers’ disposition. You can get away with being a nice guy in the fight game as long as you leave...
It may be July 2005, and Bernard Hopkins may yet return to defeat young middleweight champion Jermain Taylor, but The Executioner's loss last weekend essentially brought...
I want to take this opportunity to do something of a mea culpa here regarding Dan Birmingham. It seems as though in recounting a story I...
PROVIDENCE, RI (July 20, 2005) – Professional boxing returns to Providence August 26, featuring three championship fights at the Rhode Island Convention Center, Classic Entertainment & Sports,...
When 17-year-old Domenico Monaco arrived in New York from his native Italy in 1969, he was filled with the wide-eyed wonderment of youth—but not much else....
Bernard Hopkins and Don King had litigation pending against each other, and those lawsuits have just been resolved by an arbitrator. The below statement is by...
I just turned 50 and I can’t say I’m happy about it. I look in the bathroom mirror and see a thin gray hair sticking out...
I want to take this opportunity to do something of a mea culpa here regarding Dan Birmingham. It seems as though in recounting a story I...
This is why they invented contracts with clauses. This is why we have second and third chances, why we have rematches. When it was all over...
