No one can say that Hasim Rahman has ever been a reluctant warrior. Having faced Lennox Lewis, David Tua (twice each), Evander Holyfield, Corrie Sanders and...
I thoroughly enjoyed writing the “Operation Cleanup” books. In undertaking that project, my goal was to put something together covering the kind of ground that had...
In February of 1961, a fighter named Jim Robinson, allegedly out of Kansas City, climbed into a Miami Beach ring with 19-year-old Cassius Clay as a...
Gleason’s Gym is the most famous boxing gym in the world. Founded in 1937 by Italian-American Roberto Galiardi (who changed his name in Bobby Gleason to...
The Mohegan Tribal Department of Athletic Regulation will play host to the annual officials’ seminar of the Association of Boxing Commissions (ABC), to be held Saturday,...
SATURDAY Lancaster, CA — Jr. Featherweights JUAN DIAZ -220 PRIEST SMALLS +200 Six KO’s in 20 wins for Diaz Montreal — Heavyweights PATRICK L’HEUREUX–JOSH GUTCHER —...
FRIDAY Chicago — Lightweights JUAN LAZCANO -700 COURTNEY BURTON +600 LAZCANO–BURTON — Will enter Round 10 -130 — Will end before Round 10 +120 Burton’s last...
Shortly after being knocked down four times and stopped in the fourth round by the red-hot middleweight prospect “Irish” John Duddy, now 13-0 (12 KOs), at...
He was a “wonder-child” of boxing; in fact, it became a wondrous event that he became a boxer, let alone that he ascended to world titledom....
Lenny Daws is still happy to take up his right to make a mandatory challenge for the English light welterweight title, despite current champion Nigel Wright’s...
