Just weeks ago, three-time title challenger Robert Allen withdrew from a scheduled February 4th bout with Syd Vanderpool, 35-3, leaving the IBF 6th ranked super middleweight...
Typifying the quality match-ups that viewers of “ShoBox: The New Generation” have come to expect during the past three-and-one-half years, four talented prizefighters with a combined...
It was a little over six years ago when Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and greatness started to get mentioned in the same sentence. The first hint of...
When two guys with the nicknames of “Give ‘em Hell” and “Concrete” get together you can expect some fireworks. And in case you missed the controversial...
It is a rare occurrence when two African fighters meet in a world title bout. It is also rare that a fight on the undercard of...
At a meeting on Wednesday, the Nevada Athletic Commission discussed the issue of standardization for boxing gloves worn in bouts in the state. The most contentious...
As reported in the New York Daily News, Jose Sulaiman – president of boxing sanctioning body, the WBC – is going back to court to seek...
What IF former heavyweight champions Sonny Liston and Mike Tyson faced each other on their best night? Imagine Liston and Tyson staring each other down seconds...
When Howard Eastman faces Bernard Hopkins on Feb. 19, it will not be for boxing's undisputed middleweight championship as had been previously reported. After initially announcing...
Red Rover, Red Rover, David Tua has called Talmadge Griffis over . . . to New Zealand that is. The object of Red Rover that we...
Can you name which all-time great Cleveland boxer lost only four of one hundred and forty bouts? Here is another hint. He was a world champion...
Juan Diaz on Spring 2005 college semester schedule:I will attend class from 5:00 – 8:15 pm on Wednesday. It is the first day of class for...
Special to TheSweetScience.com, from the Pat Putnam Classic Series, this article originally appeared in Sports Illustrated. This is one of my favorites, if only that it...
R.B.F. president shares special day with all-time great Muhammad Ali While most people know that today is the 63rd birthday of world-renowned, all-time great heavyweight champion...
Ken Burns’ latest documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, airs tonight, Monday, and tomorrow night, Tuesday, January 17-18, 9:00-11:00 p.m. ET, on...
Ronald Wright has been thee standard-bearer, fistic force of the often transitional division, the jr. middleweights, for a decade. He’s braved and battled, besting many of...
Heavyweight David Tua has admitted that his weight ballooned last year while his boxing career was on hold due to an acrimonious dispute with former managers...
Arnie Brower has the kind of quintessential New York face that looks vaguely familiar to nearly everyone he encounters. The shock of hair on his head,...
Ike Quartey made a successful ring return Saturday in Accra, Ghana. Boxing behind his vaunted jab, 'Bazooka' Quartey became the first boxer to stop opponent Clint...
Mike Tyson is back in training. Tyson is working out under the guiding eye of trainer Buddy McGirt in Vero Beach, Florida. McGirt has said that...
