Oscar De La Hoya had every right to complain and be bitter about his unanimous decision loss to Shane Mosley this past weekend. Not because he...
Tow-may-to, Tow-mot-to, Pow-tay-to, Pow-tot-to. . . Just Call the Whole Thing off, Oscar. Joey Knish ( IBOPboxing.com ) Tuesday September 16, 2003 ? ????Fred Astaire sang how “you...
On March 9 1987, former heavyweight champion George Foreman stopped journeyman Steve Zouski in the fourth round. Foreman's fight versus Zouski was the official beginning of...
It was a long, rambling poem, though it wasn’t the kind of verse you might hear late at night in a smoky San Francisco coffee house...
Thirty years ago, on September 10, 1973, Muhammad Ali began the journey back to the top to put the final stamp on his career, solidifying him...
What would an HBO boxing telecast be like without the voice and input of guest judge Harold Lederman? Harold has become a mainstay with the popular...
For the past four or five years ESPN Classic Sports has shown two hours of classic boxing on Tuesday nights. That's the good news. The bad...
David Tua has to be the luckiest fighter in the world. How many times does a fighter get three chances to do something right, once? It's...
This Saturday night in Las Vegas Oscar De La Hoya gets his shot at redemption against Shane Mosley, who defeated 'the Golden Boy' in June of...
Ever go to a store where you need to buy something or get something serviced only to walk up to the front door and see a...
Look out, Shane Mosley. Tighten your jaw, toughen your resolve and spend some extra minutes in the gym every day. Don’t smile too often or say...
This is my remembrance of the day Rocky Marciano was killed in a plane crash. Monday September 1st 2003 would have been his 80th birthday. It...
On October 31, 1992, Lennox Lewis stopped Razor Ruddock in two rounds. Without a doubt, this was the signature win of Lewis' career at the time....
What IF Bob Foster, one of the greatest light heavyweight champions in history, confronted Michael Spinks, also one of the greatest light heavyweights champs in history,...
So what does the term 'underrated' really mean? Does it mean that you don't get enough credit for how good you are? Or does it mean...
This past June 21, Vitali Klitschko fought heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis. Klitschko lost the fight when the ring doctor stopped the fight between the sixth and...
In less than a month Oscar DeLaHoya and Shane Mosley will be fighting a rematch against each other. The last time DeLaHoya and Mosley shared a...
The 90th Round It seems that with increasing regularity, fighters are becoming concerned about the kind of money that is coming to the promoter when he...
You know it's a slow week in boxing when- now hold on tightly while I say this- I talk at length about womens boxing. Yes, you...
The other day a colleague asked me what division in boxing was the most competitive today. Tough question I thought – but not really. I had...
