PHOENIX, Arizona – Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, like some eternally recurring eternal recurrence, former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world Mike Tyson is...
It wasn't that long ago that Marco Antonio Barrera was considered washed-up, a has-been, a fighter who turned pro young and predictably flamed out young. But...
HOUSTON, Texas – I spent last week in the Houston, Texas area visiting family. While there my son Mike and I ventured over to the town...
NEW YORK (April 6, 2005) – In a matchup that has all the makings of a classic, Kostya Tszyu will meet the enormously popular Ricky Hatton...
“From grassroots to glory” is a catchphrase Mzonke Fana has been using to motivate himself in his quest to dethrone Marco Antonio Barrera for the WBC...
In this day and age, in the sport of boxing, if you have a big amateur background or you don't have bizarre behavior, then you will...
NYPD sergeant Jean Martin is too much of a perfectionist to do anything half-baked. When she steps into the ring at Madison Square Garden on Thursday,...
In anticipation of their April 23, 2005 welterweight title fight on ESPN Pay-Per-View, Antonio Margarito and Kermit Citron met with members of the press. The transcript...
RESEDA, Calif. (April 6, 2005) – After a six months hiatus, Wladimir Klitschko returns to action on April 23 in Dortmund, Germany, where he takes on...
For those who live in or near New England and have a taste for games of chance, the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut is the place....
Just two fights into his junior welterweight career, Floyd Mayweather Jr. will bite off the biggest piece the division has to offer on June 25th when...
WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko poses with his newborn son Max. The third child of Vitali and Natalie Klitschko was born April 1 in Los Angeles...
I can’t have been the only one to have felt uncomfortable when Najay Ali walked into the Peristeri Boxing Hall last August. The light flyweight had...
I still keep in close touch with a few of the guys that I came up with in the amateur ranks. I was a graduate from...
LOS ANGELES, California (April 4) – Citing personal reasons, lightweight contender Juan Lazcano has withdrawn from this Saturday's “Viva Mexico” card in El Paso, Texas, where he...
One thing that can be said about boxing on HBO: when they are on, they are REALLY on. Other networks offer an occasional gem, but HBO...
SOUTH EL MONTE, California – To say that Antonio Margarito will show up well-conditioned for his April 23 welterweight showdown with Kermit Cintron would be an...
Where did Norman “Stoney” Stone come from and why isn‘t he selling used cars? Manger, trainer, fast-talker and part-time troublemaker, Stoney is the guy you want...
I have long been a collector of cleverly constructed strings of consonants and vowels that form a brilliant paragraph or a singular sentence, lines sculpted by...
The Jearn-Marc Mormeck vs. Wayne Braithwaite bout will be replayed on SHO2 On Tuesday, April 5, At 11 PM ET/PT WORCESTER, Mass. (April 3, 2005) – World Boxing Association...
