Joe Joyce continues his fast rise up the heavyweight ladder on Feb. 23 when he takes on Bermane Stiverne at London’s 02 Arena on a card...
A boxer’s hands are the tools of his trade. Like all tools, they are subject to chipping and breaking from repeated usage. But whereas a carpenter...
“Get him a straitjacket!” That’s how all this craziness started. In 2002, boxing writer Mark ‘Scoop’ Malinowski stood at the back of a Mike Tyson press...
It ain’t business. It’s personal. Roy McHugh was a sports editor and columnist-at-large for the Pittsburgh Press until he retired in 1983. He’s a hundred and...
George Foreman was 14-0, all of his victories by knockout, 22½ months into the comeback he had launched to much derision after a 10-year retirement, when...
Heroes put others first. Heroes sacrifice—sometimes with their lives. NFL player Pat Tillman was not a boxer but he was a legitimate hero having been killed...
LAS VEGAS-After a slow start the Manny Pacquiao train picked up steam and might have jump started the flooded welterweight division while retaining the WBA world...
Friday night fights at Madison Square Garden were once boxing’s most-anticipated weekly event. On Friday, January 18, Matchroom USA and DAZN teamed up for the latest...
For someone who promotes two fighters who are widely considered to be the world’s pound-for-pound best, what took place Friday night at the Turning Stone Resort...
VERONA, NY — In the main event at Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Oscar Rivas (26-0, 18 KO’s) scored a mild upset in stopping Bryant Jennings...
Eddie Hearn, the head of the boxing division of the U.K. sports conglomerate founded by his father, continued his invasion of the United States tonight with...
The most head-scratching upset of 2018 caused hardly a ripple. On Oct. 6, at Chicago’s Wintrust Arena, Nkosi Solomon fell to pieces in his pro debut,...
LAS VEGAS-Cameron Krael crashed any hopes of Michael Odhiambo with a knockout win in the first round of a welterweight clash on Thursday. With a large...
Being a gatekeeper, especially in boxing, can be a lonely and underappreciated function. And in the 1950s, a golden age for the sport, that might have...
Every time it rains in L.A. I think about the Doors song “Riders in the Storm.” On Sunday a brief window of dryness blanketed as I...
Co-promoters Bob Arum and Eddie Hearn staged a press conference today (Tuesday, Jan. 15) at London’s elegant Landmark Hotel to announce that Terence Crawford will defend...
The father, now 79, has a memory being wiped slowly clean by the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease, so perhaps he remains oblivious to the horrific damage...
THREE PUNCH COMBO — Last year Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez had breakout performances that opened the eyes of many in the sport. They went from...
LOS ANGELES-No more doubt about Caleb Plant who floored Jose Uzcategui twice early in the super middleweight world title fight, then hung on to win by...
The IBF 168-pound world title is at stake tonight when Jose Uzcategui and Caleb Plant collide at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The main go...
