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...
On March 1 of this year, undisputed light heavyweight champ Roy Jones won me over with his one-sided victory over WBA heavyweight champ John Ruiz. Over...
The 89th Round I was involved recently as an expert consultant/witness in a rather contentious court case between super middleweight contender Antwun Echols and Arthur Pelullo...
If the heavyweight division was a dog, you’d slip a rope around its neck, take it into the woods, pat it gently on the head and...
Regardless of what happens during the remainder of their careers, both Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis have made their mark in heavyweight history. Holyfield and Lewis...
The 88th Round As I touched upon in the last chapter, I have undergone something of a metamorphosis over the course of the last fifteen months....
The 87th Round Certainly I wouldn't laugh you out of the room if you concluded that the last 186 chapters of the “Operation Cleanup” series provided...
A couple nights past, I was having a conversation with someone who I hold in high regard when it comes to boxing insight. We were going...
Winky Wright must be wondering what he has to do to pick a fight with this guy, what it takes to get him riled enough that...
It was a tougher than anticipated scrap for Acelino Freitas when he took on plucky Argentinian Jorge Barrios this past weekend in Miami, Florida. It was...
The 86th Round (We'll start this thing out with a little disclaimer – I am currently involved with the subject of this piece, Scott Wagner, in...
On Oct. 2, 1980, former three time heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali came out of a 25-month retirement and fought undefeated heavyweight champion Larry Holmes. During Ali's...
Bert Sugar was close. “Mike Tyson has gone from the bizarre to the tragic,” the writer, publisher, philosopher and boxing goodwill ambassador said on TV recently....
The 85th Round Ladies and gentlemen, I want to be as brief as possible today. If you would, please consider the following hypothetical: A fighter, who...
I usually don't root for or against any fighters being in the position I'm in. I cover and write about the sport of boxing and it's...
What if in this corner was Carlos Monzon (11-7-70 thru 7-30-77) from Santa Fe Argentina, the middleweight champion of the '70s, and in this corner was...
