Years ago while researching a television series which I wrote and directed called “The Fighters,” which covered 101 years of boxing history in South Africa, I...
Hector Roca is a longtime boxing trainer and he recently trained Oscar-winning actor Hilary Swank for her role as boxer Maggie Fitzgerald in the film “Million...
“I want Oscar.” So says undisputed welterweight champion Zab Judah. It was just last week that Judah stopped former champ Cory Spinks in the ninth round...
You have probably heard Bat Masterson’s name mentioned in stories of Wyatt Earp and the Old West. Dime-store novels were written about him. Gene Barry played...
Winky Wright, the IBOP world junior middleweight champion, travels out of his own division on May 14 when he meets Felix “Tito” Trinidad in Las Vegas,...
What would drive anyone to take up a career in boxing? Others forms of “work” do not come close to the risk/reward of being a professional...
Bernard Hopkins is like the white rabbit in Alice and Wonderland. You try to follow him into a different world but you can’t keep up. He...
Recently the late Jersey Jones, the former associate editor of Ring magazine, was named to Boxing's Hall of Fame. Jones was a nimble writer who covered...
LOS ANGELES – WBC super bantamweight champion Oscar “Chololo” Larios successfully defended his crown for the sixth time last night at the Palace Indian Gaming Center...
Long before there was Arturo Gatti, there was an equally exciting light heavyweight named Alvaro “Yaqui” Lopez. Hailing from Stockton, California, Lopez, who campaigned from 1972-84,...
