There are three different kinds of late-career boxers I’ve identified. The first is the big name who gets plenty of big money and big title fights;...
The thing about Bernard Hopkins and Antonio Tarver is, they both talk a good fight, then they lace up their gloves and actually give you one....
LAS VEGAS, June 5 – The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, but as Jose Luis Castillo would probably add, “give or take an eon.” I...
Fool me twice; shame on your entire freakin’ camp. That repackaged mantra pretty much sums up the response around the world of professional pugilism, from pundit...
Vic Darchinyan retains flyweight titles Armenian-born but fighting out of Sydney, Australia, Vic Darchinyan (26-0, 21 KOs) retained his IBF and IBO flyweight titles in Las...
DUBLIN, IRELAND – The EMT crews from Medilink Ambulance Service assigned to Ireland’s National Stadium Saturday night had a busier-than-anticipated evening. First, a would-be gatecrasher hoping...
Referee Arthur Mercante Sr. was at the Sam Peter/Julius Long fight this past April, but he stayed outside the ropes. When his name was announced, the...
Arthur Mercante was 81-years-old when he refereed his last title bout; IBF junior flyweight champion Ricardo Lopez’s eighth round stoppage of Zolani Petelo at Madison Square...
HANNOVER, Germany – Undefeated World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolai “The Beast From the East” Valuev scored a third-round knockout to defeat Owen “What the Heck”...
You could see it coming. Jose Luis Castillo entered the Augustus Ballroom at Caesars Palace for Friday's weigh-in with an exhausted and dejected look on his...
