Would I be stepping out of line, and breaking the “magician’s code” of the fightwriting sphere if I said that too often, we keyboard tappers overplay...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree. —Samuel Coleridge Sadly, it has come to this for Evander Holyfield, proud warrior of so many epic...
SHERMAN OAKS, CA.-Looking like a Mutt and Jeff face-off, James “Lights Out” Toney stood there bending his neck backward to get a look at too-tall Tony...
* photo courtesy Alex Gorokhov Brooklyn-based welterweight Dmitriy Salita has always been in the spotlight, but after outpointing Kansas’s Derrick Campos on the opening bout of...
NEW YORK – Maybe Roy Jones Jr. could do it. Maybe he had it inside him to defy Father Time. Defy the odds against him. Defy...
Quick, name a contemporary boxer who retired with more than 100 victories. How many guys can you name? Did you come up with Harold Brazier? Brazier...
When you stop and think about it, sports are inherently unfair, biased as they are against the short, slow, uncoordinated, paunchy and weak. Hey, we all...
BAMBERG – We all know a night at the fights can mean many things to many people. Saturday night, at a frenzied, sold out JAKO Arena...
NEW YORK – Midway through his fight with Joe Calzaghe last night, Roy Jones, Jr. became Roy Jones, Sr. A boxing ring is a terrible place...
The crowd said, 'Yes he can' when Roy Jones knocked Joe Calzaghe to the mat in the first. The crowd said, 'Maybe he can’t' when Calzaghe...
