The occasion is rare in boxing that a co-feature bout is the more anticipated fight than is the main event of any given fight card. The...
When the Ring 8 Veteran Boxers Association in New York City honored Johnny Persol with an Uncrowned Light-Heavyweight Championship Belt at its annual Christmas luncheon on...
'Prince' Naseem Hamed recently told the Sheffield Star that he plans to return to the boxing ring this summer. “I've not said anything publicly until now...
Last Friday night Billy “The Kid” Irwin acknowledged he was a “kid” no more and hung up his professional boxing gloves for good. Boxing’s Father Time...
Boxing fans are looking forward to Kassim Ouma vs. Kofi Jantuah in a big way. TheSweetScience.com writers tell you what they think is going to happen....
The boxing writers at TheSweetScience.com return with their picks for Saturday night's main event – Arturo Gatti vs. Jesse James Leija. I'll take Leija in the...
A few years back, ESPN Classic purchased the rights to what was called the largest fight library in the world from former Mike Tyson brain trust...
The last thing a fighter wants to do is take Jesse James Leija for granted. Just ask Francisco Bojado, Hector Camacho Jr. and Joel Perez how...
This Friday Scottish featherweight title-holder Scott Harrison seeks to etch his name on the 126 and 130lb VIP party lists by emphatically dispatching veteran Columbian Victor...
ST. LOUIS — In heavyweight boxing news, undefeated Owen “What the Heck” Beck will face the toughest challenge of his career when he squares off against...
NEW YORK – 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...
The tabloids say ‘this’, Lennox Lewis says ‘that’ . . . who can we believe? A ‘tabloid’ by dictionary definition is a paper that features stories...
The archetype of a boxing writer is some hardboiled guy brimming with cynicism and chomping on a cigar. But that description only goes so far. Guys...
New York, January 24 – The sky is certainly the limit for young heavyweight sensation Samuel Peter. Promoted by Duva Boxing, the Nigerian-born Peter scored his...
There's not a lot of time left and Jesse James Leija understands that as well as anyone. You stay in this game too long and some...
Prizefighting is a serious business. At times, it is a deadly business. That is why Jim Lampley’s behavior during last weekend’s HBO broadcast of the Floyd...
In The Ring magazine’s top fifty heavyweights of the gloved era, ranked 40th is a boxer who fought during the talent rich 1970s. He was a...
I learned two things Sunday, and each made me shake my head in dismay. The first bit of news merely reiterated that life is a bastard;...
There was a lot of talk about the intangibles, but what do you expect when you’re talking to a guy like Arturo “Thunder” Gatti? – Heart,...
Although middleweight John Duddy and junior welterweight “Mighty” Mike Arnaoutis, both 25, are on the same mission, they are a study in contrasts. Neither grew up...
