Today is the day that the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, through its Consumer Affairs Sub-Committee, holds a hearing concerning boxing legislation. In case...
PELTZ SQUEEZES FROM BOTH ENDS IN DUAL ROLE – “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him...
Sometimes I think it's important to establish what should NOT be part of a boxing reform package. One of the things I hear from people that...
For the past seven years or so, representatives of the federal government, most notably Senator John McCain of Arizona, have sold people on the fact that...
Mickey Ward Does Not Live In A Mansion – Junior-welterweight Mickey Ward doesn’t own any big-time world title belts. He doesn’t live in a 40-room mansion,...
Here’s a little secret. The third guy holding one of the three major junior-middleweight titles goes by the nickname of “Winky.” He’s 30, a southpaw, is...
The two best heavyweights in the world need passports to see the Statue of Liberty. They both talk with an accent, use strange currency, can’t vote...
The Prophet was a no-show, so we didn’t get a chance to ask him about his clever nickname. If Daniel “The Prophet” Attah had shown up...
In the down-home, country-fried words of promoter Cedric Kushner, “Merciless” Ray Mercer is “one tough cookie.’’ Kushner meant that in the sense that Mercer has a...
It’s been seven months since the legend of “Sugar” Shane Mosley went up in a puff of controversy. Right hands and left hooks always tell the...
