James Toney had no business winning in Madison Square Garden Saturday night. His renowned wizardry was supposed to be dulled by a thick midsection, a real...
I was alerted to the possibility that Kid Chocolate might still be alive by Nigel Collins, then editor of The Ring magazine. I was trying to...
He calls himself the “Magic Man,” but Antonio Tarver is one lackluster fight away from being most remembered as a one trick magician in my mind. That...
New York – The atmosphere at Madison Square Garden was less than electric on Saturday night for James Toney’s unanimous decision win over WBA heavyweight champion...
For the first time in his championship career, John Ruiz fought an entertaining fight. The fans went home happy. Ruiz went home a loser. James Toney...
The disdain for John Ruiz is shocking when you look at the man and his career. Dubbed the Quiet Man for his polite and courteous manner,...
James Toney’s beautiful – all 233 pounds on his 5’10” frame. A barrel-of-a-belly and loose flesh every place that’s refused to shrink back with age and...
The boxing faithful have been anticipating this Saturday’s heavyweight championship bout between WBA titleholder John Ruiz and James Toney. Not because they are expecting twelve rounds...
I was looking at the long list of heavyweight champions and their title fights, going back to the likes of Paddy Ryan, John L. Sullivan, James...
NEW YORK (April 29, 2005) – Minutes after the verdict was rendered in a sensational junior welterweight rematch between Jeffrey Resto of The Bronx, New York,...
When junior middleweight contender Raul Frank arrived in New York from his native Georgetown, Guyana, in 1990, he was all of 21-years-old and filled with the...
In a highly anticipated match-up, the two best 135-pound boxers in the world will square off when two-time World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion Jose Luis...
Fernando Montiel is in an interesting place these days, standing in that most special of doorways – the doorway every fighter sees in his dreams. The...
This Saturday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, the defending WBA heavyweight champion John Ruiz (41-5-1 28 KOs) defends his crown against James “Lights Out” Toney...
If it were not so sad, it would almost be funny. There’s big John Ruiz, the Rodney Dangerfield of heavyweight champions, wondering why he has to...
On March 15th 1996 at the Convention Center in Atlantic City, Samoan bomb thrower David Tua (22-0) knocked out heavyweight prospect John Ruiz (25-2) in 19...
This Saturday night’s heavyweight championship fight between current and two-time World Boxing Association champion John Ruiz and three-time world champion and future hall-of-famer James Toney has...
LOS ANGELES (April 27) – Golden Boy Enterprises, led by Oscar De La Hoya, and Highridge Partners, an international real estate developer and investor headed by...
BOSTON (April 27, 2005) – First year boxing promoter NER Promotions has strengthened its growing stable of fighters by signing four veteran South American boxers: WBO...
Cestus Management's junior welterweight sensation “Mighty” Mike Arnaoutis is set to make his return to the ring on Friday, May 20, 2005. The undefeated “Pride of...
