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...
The Latino boxing community is tensed. There is a profound division of opinions not only among Mexicans, but among brothers and sisters of Puerto Rican and...
It wasn’t much more than a dog-and-pony show, a little hip-hop, a little rap, a little flesh flashed by six attractive dancing girls all in a...
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...
Somehow, I managed to get my grubby little hands on an e-mail transmission today, which reads like this: “Vice President Jack Kerns is performing a survey...
A former athletic commissioner from the state of Kentucky has revealed to us that he was threatened with discipline, and later dismissed, for having the temerity...
If I’m Clinton Woods, I’m betting heavy on the other guy. I’m rounding up my family’s life savings, robbing my piggy bank, taking out a loan...
This Saturday in the world of college football, Colorado is a hefty 24 point favorite over San Diego St., Washington St. is a big 28 point...
LaMotta, known for his ability to assimilate and resist punishment while marching forward in the ring, was smiling and moving his head with every word we...
As we mentioned in the previous chapter, one thing that gets lost when people talk about the business of boxing is that the promoter, in the...
One thing I've noticed when I look over the Muhammad Ali Act, and the new legislation that will supplement it – the so-called “United States Boxing...
