As a youth Victor Ortiz used to watch Antonio Diaz and his brother Julio Diaz on television and admired their super tough mentality and the way...
Saturday night marks the first fight of the Social Networking Era of Pugilism. Paulie Malignaggi went to the web after losing to Juan Diaz on Aug....
Shame on us keyboard tappers. So much of our interest and energy has been spent in the last couple of weeks on the impending Pacquiao-Mayweather showdown,...
As those of you who read my stories can probably tell, I have been writing less and less frequently for this site. The reasons for the...
This past weekend Paul Williams 38-1 (27) and Sergio Martinez 44-2-2 (24) put on one of the better fights of 2009. The two southpaws both scored...
Reports are starting to surface all over that the most anticipated fight of the last decade is on the verge of being signed. During the last...
ONTARIO-Peru’s Kina Malpartida retained her WBA junior lightweight world title and a day earlier Filipina star Ana Julaton retained her IBA title too. And she grabbed...
ATLANTIC CITY — Chalk up another one for The Punisher. Pierre (The Punisher) Benoist, that is. Saturday night's fight was less than three minutes old when...
Boxing has the ability to make me feel like a fool quite regularly. It did so once again Saturday, as I watched the Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez...
WBA super lightweight/junior welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KOs) demolished Dmitriy Salita (30-1-1, 16 KOs) in the first round on Saturday night at the Metro...
This is the kind of night that has derailed many a highly-regarded boxer. Paul Williams best be careful he doesn’t add his name to that long,...
Remind me again why Lucian Bute isn’t in SHOWTIME’s Super Six super middleweight tournament? Bute’s total annihilation of Librado Andrade last weekend brought that question to...
ATLANTIC CITY — The lines of demarcation have become so blurred over the years that the brand-name identification has become almost meaningless. A week ago in...
NEW YORK — Fighting for the first time in more than two years, former two-time heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs scored the 28th first-round knockout of his...
In his fight with Enrique Ornelas Wednesday night, Bernard Hopkins confirmed once again that, at almost 45 years old, there's still a lot of fight left...
Back in the mid-seventies future middleweight champ Marvin Hagler traveled to Joe Frazier's gym on Broad St. in North Philadelphia to train for his rubber match...
OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT – With all the recent news regarding higher echelon boxers, it's been pretty easy lately for some pretty decent scraps to be...
CONFERENCE CALL HIGHLIGHTS WBO JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHT CHAMP TIMOTHY BRADLEY & WBO INTERIM 140-POUND TITLEHOLDER LAMONT PETERSON Bradley, (24-0-1 NC, 11 KOs), of Palm Springs, Calif., and...
Roy Jones Jr.’s story ended the way they usually do in boxing. It ended sadly. Flat on his back less than two minutes into the first...
Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins’ postfight press conferences have always had a surrealistic quality, but his musings about his past, his future, and the state of boxing...
