SHOWTIME’s spectacular tripleheader on Saturday, Oct. 2, will be the first boxing event to take place in the new outdoor Amphitheatre at Caesars Palace. The telecast...
(In Part 1 of this series Randy Gordon chronicled the build up to Leonard-Hagler) “The Showdown”, as promoter Dan Duva named it, or “Superfight,” as so...
On December 26, 1908 Jack Johnson defeated Tommy Burns to become the first African American heavyweight champion of the world. Even though Johnson was the obvious...
I’m reminded of the song “We will rock you” by Queen when I think of Oscar Da La Hoya now. “Blood on your face, big disgrace...
The body shot. It's rare when one ends a fight all by itself. Usually, it's the cumulative effect of a fight's worth of body work that...
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.Peter Ustinov (1921 – 2004) British boxing fans are only too accustomed to eking out the gems from the...
Be on the lookout in the dairy section of your local grocery store – the face of Antonio “Magic Man” Tarver may be the next mug...
Dominic Pesoli's 8 Count Productions and Bob Arum's Top Rank team up again on October 15th for Chicagoland's best professional boxing show of the year as...
This past Saturday night Undisputed World Middleweight Champion Bernard Hopkins won the biggest fight of his life. In the signature-fight of his career, Hopkins knocked out...
This past Saturday in Las Vegas, Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins stopped Oscar De La Hoya dead in his tracks in his quest to become the undisputed...
