RIVERSIDE, Calif.-A loud rumbling diesel engine from a massive burgundy Dodge Ram trumpeted the arrival of some mystery guest as it inched forward on the 200-feet...
Veteran British promoter Frank Warren and his Queensberry Promotions are at London’s venerable Royal Albert Hall this Friday with an 11-fight boxing card that sees three...
Joe Smith Jr. knows what much of the world thinks of him, in a boxing sense. He was dismissed as a “common” man by future Hall...
Professional basketball players, baseball players, football players, hockey players, and even soccer players all have negotiated benefit packages including important pension features. Because of their team...
“This guy is definitely going to be heavyweight champion of the world.” That’s a bold proclamation about a 24-year-old heavyweight prospect named Efe Ajagba, one that...
When Bob Arum and his comrades at ESPN poached Tyson Fury from Showtime, they did it in the belief that Fury was better served by having...
LOS ANGELES-For one day L.A. was target zero as a number of world champs gathered led by Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, the publicly acknowledged star of the...
In a fight that is certainly guaranteed to bring action, WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol defends his title against Joe Smith Jr. Saturday at the...
I never saw my favorite fighter in action. His last professional fight took place before I was born. There are no videotapes of him boring in,...
It’s an old story. A man has three or four mistresses, spreads himself thin, and tells each of the women that he loves her. Despite evidence...
The marquee match on today’s boxing docket played out at Barclays Center in Brooklyn where Argentina’s Brian Castano (15-0, 11 KOs) risked his undefeated record and...
The marquee match on today’s boxing docket is being contested at Barclays Center in Brooklyn where Argentina’s Brian Castano (15-0, 11 KOs) risks his undefeated record...
Word has come down that Eusebio Pedroza died early this morning at his home in Panama. Pedroza would have turned 63 tomorrow, March 2. Several weeks...
One of the icons of Los Angeles sports journalism, Jose “Chiquilin” Garcia Martinez, passed away last week. Though not very tall in physical height, he wielded...
What goes around eventually comes back around? Well, not always. But there are certain long-separated, seemingly unconnected events that draw such distinct parallels that it can...
Smooth as a yard of silk, and slick as a pool of oil, best explains what boxing fans can expect to see when Cuban fighters Erislandy...
The Premier Boxing Champions are back on SHOWTIME this Saturday with a WBA world welterweight title fight between champion Brian Castano (15-0) of Argentina and former...
Perhaps the most worthwhile match on this weekend’s European calendar comes on Saturday in Germany as heavyweights Andriy Rudenko and Agit Kabayel clash in a 12-round...
Brendan Barrett, who currently hangs his hat in Los Angeles, took a lot of punches this past Saturday at the Twin River Event Center in Lincoln,...
In the murky shadows of heavyweight boxing, several fighters with recognizable names are jockeying to become the next Bermane Stiverne, by which we mean the next...
