Blue-collar boxer Christopher “The Mechanic” Smith will attempt to dismantle David Estrada in an International Boxing Federation (IBF) elimination bout for the No. 2 ranking Friday,...
Highlights from the best and most memorable fights of the year will be shown when SHOWTIME presents “SHOWTIME BOXING: Best Of 2004” on Saturday, Jan. 8,...
Valorie Chacon was done with the empty promises. It was March 1982, and Chacon's husband, Bobby, was foolishly pursuing an impossible dream: Fighting for a world...
Yesterday – in Part 1 – I looked at fighters who, due to their popularity and fan base, cause reality and perception to be blurred. Today...
For those who celebrate Christmas, December 26 has never historically represented anything more than ‘the day after’, unless you celebrate Boxing Day (no fight fans, not...
ESPN2 will redefine the term “educational television” on Jan 21 when “Friday Night Fights Main Events Special Edition” features four boxers on its broadcast who have...
Featherweight champions Bobby Chacon and Barry McGuigan, both immensely popular fighters in their respective eras, headline a class of 10 new inductees to the International Boxing...
2004 was an historic year in the sport of boxing. No doubt Mike Tyson and Roy Jones being stopped every time they fought, and the retirement...
You still can’t spell his name or pronounce it, but by now you know who Vitali Klitschko is: He’s the older brother of that other guy...
Unanswered questions remained after undisputed world welterweight champion Cory “The Next Generation” Spinks and two-time 140-pound world champion Zab “Super” Judah sent each other to the...
At the annual Dr. Theodore Atlas Foundation fundraiser in November, boxing commentator and fight trainer Teddy Atlas went up to the microphone to tell the thousand...
Kermit Cintron defends WBO-Interim title in main event. Antonio Margarito defends WBO title in co-feature. Kermit Cintron and Antonio Margarito, two of the world’s finest welterweights...
Cory Spinks and Zab Judah – two fighters who can't seem to find that ticket to stardom – have found that the road to nowhere goes...
Brian Adams is a man of many talents. He was a fine boxer. He is a fine writer. He is a fine commentator. Born in Queens,...
Boxing collects black eyes the way a philatelist collects stamps. Yet the world would have us believe that in the collective known as sport, boxing is...
Don't talk to promoter Lou DiBella about a Happy New Year. It hasn't been a happy start for DiBella Entertainment and their prized super flyweight star...
Pulling no punches, SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING will come out with both fists blazing on Feb. 5, 2005, when its first telecast of the year will feature...
Antwun Echols is being considered as Joe Calzaghe's next opponent. Calzaghe is scheduled to defend his WBO super middleweight title on February 11. Echols (31-5-1 27...
The year 2004 proved to be an interesting year for boxing. Glencoffe Johnson upset Antonio Tarver in the best light heavyweight fight in a few years. Felix...
When people used to say “shake the hand which shook the hand which shook the hand of The Great John L.” it really meant something. During...
