“Since its passage in 1996, the PBSA (Professional Boxing Safety Act) has not been adequately enforced. Many unscrupulous participants in the professional boxing industry are aware...
Over the last few weeks, a bandwagon of would-be boxing reformers has been created, in part, by the people over at ESPN, who seized upon the...
It’s a well-constructed letter supposedly written by IBF mandatory challenger Robert Allen, asking middleweight champ Bernard Hopkins if he’d like to step outside and settle things....
When Michael Spinks won an Olympic gold medal at the 1976 Olympic games in Montreal as a middleweight, he was overshadowed by his older brother Leon...
As I rant and rave about the importance of having neutrality in officiating, I'm occasionally encountered with the devil's advocate who asks, “What's the big deal...
It was erroneously reported in one newspaper that “the WBA screened a tape of the (Ruiz-Johnson) fight for a group of 55 boxing officials and judges,...
No doubt you're aware of the special hearing this Wednesday where the WBA will explain its movements in the latest heavyweight rankings. Such moves have caused...
This press release came to me from WBC President Jose Sulaiman, dated August 5, 2002: “The practice of active litigation is not customary nor a part...
It’s like poking a dead dog with a stick. You’re pretty sure there’s no bite left in it, but you’re a little concerned about the smell....
I assume that if you read “Operation Cleanup” you are an educated boxing fan. And if you're an educated boxing fan, you're aware of what happened...
In the down-home, country-fried words of promoter Cedric Kushner, “Merciless” Ray Mercer is “one tough cookie.’’ Kushner meant that in the sense that Mercer has a...
For those of you who feel that Senator John McCain and his “effort to clean up boxing” are in touch with reality, allow me to offer...
The most recent news about top contender Fernando Vargas taking steroids before his last title match against Oscar De La Hoya, was not surprising to me....
Ken Nahigian, the latest self-styled boxing “expert” in these United States, has a little list he carries around in his back pocket. Written on this piece...
When I tell you – time and time again – that it's not so much a matter of the LAW you put in place as it...
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with former Heavyweight Champion Ken Norton on my radio show “Toe-to-Toe” heard on ESPN Radio 1490. Ken was in...
The great irony about the so-called “boxing reform” measures that are being proposed by people who don't seem to know any better is that the apparatus...
At 44, he still has that crazy overhand right. It comes in fast and mean and unless you’ve been waiting for it all night, it arrives...
A lot of people ask me why I'm not giving a lot of coverage to the “Professional Boxing Amendments Act of 2002”, the new legislation that...
I have always assumed that no stupid person can ever reach the top of any profession. In boxing, what separates a champion from ordinary boxers is...
