Early on Layla McCarter took the warrior’s road. You know, that long dusty path they talk about in Japanese samurai movies where a person decides to...
“Two days and a wakeup,’’ as Crocodile Finch used to holler at Mike Tyson when fight night approached, the countdown continuing until the moment the first...
Perhaps a star was not born at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom on Friday evening, but at the very least, a solid light heavyweight contender was unveiled in...
There will be 284 amateur boxers in Beijing over the next month trying to live a lifelong dream. Eight will be trying to alter a nightmare...
The U.S. Olympic boxing team has been taking its licks for the past two decades with only three gold medals since 1992. Sometimes it's politics, coaches...
LOS ANGELES-Smug as usual, the brassy face of Nicaragua’s Ricardo Mayorga sat there with a long cigarette puffing away with Sugar Shane Mosley sitting a few...
“I sparred with Oscar a few years ago,” new WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito recalled. “And I have to say that I definitely put my hands...
Showtime has put together a strong card for October 11, which features WBC champion Samuel Peter taking on the elder Klitschko brother, Vitali Klitschko. Of course,...
Keep your eye out, New York area fight fans. When fights take place in the Aviator athletic complex in Brooklyn, invariably, they are rock solid. In...
TSS checked in with the poet laureate of pugilistic analysis, Larry Merchant. We talked PacMan, Cotto’s loss and future, Oscar’s farewell fight and Pavlik’s chances at...
