I used to watch the “Contender” when it first aired on TV. It was about prize fighting and prize fighters and it seemed to have a...

Ring announcer and disc jockey David Diamante has played by his own rules for all of his life. You need not look past his long dreadlocks...

TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION — Ricardo “Rocky” Juarez cruised along the fast lane comeback trail, speeding past what ended up as not much more than noble roadkill...

“I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves … a good boxer is an artist … Boxing is existential — some...

Sugar Shane Mosley’s decisive victory over Brooklyn’s Luis Collazo left many spectators shaking their heads in wonderment. Even Collazo had to bow his head at his...

You won’t find a more rock-solid boxer and human being than undefeated junior middleweight prospect Henry Crawford of Paterson, New Jersey. He will put his 13-0-1...

Hidden away from the public eye for more than a year, Ishe Smith has arisen from a sea of prizefighters like a lost sunken treasure. Sugar...

While pondering who among Pretty Boy Floyd, The Executioner, PacMan, the Pride of Wales or Magnifico should be Fighter of the Year for 2006, the nom...

Here is what the record book will state in perpetuity. January 20, 2007: Tommy Rainone W4 Jerry Kelly, Bushkill, PAJanuary 25, 2007: Tommy Rainone W4 John...

In the movies, Rocky Balboa trained for his fights by punching sides of beef in a Philadelphia slaughterhouse. Vidal Flores didn’t do that at the various...