Picking the greatest anything is far from easy. That includes naming the greatest boxer even when, at first blush, you assume there is Sugar Ray Robinson...
Tony Galento was gonna go right at Joe Louis and hit him on the chin and knock him out. How'd that work out other than Galento...
The Cold War presumably ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, but another Berlin Wall of sorts has been erected in Germany, the...
HBO SPORTS SERVES UP AN ACTION-PACKED SHOWDOWN WHEN HBO BOXING AFTER DARK®: VICTOR ORTIZ VS. MARCOS RENE MAIDANA IS SEEN SATURDAY, JUNE 27 HBO Sports serves...
“Kid looks Russian, prays Jewish and fights black,” Starrett City boxing trainer Jimmy O'Pharrow deadpanned to a reporter when asked to describe his Odessa-born prodigy. In...
Mia St. John might have become another Salma Hayek or Jennifer Lopez, a lovely Latina presence on the silver screen, had she not made a snap...
Fans of mixed martial arts in the New York region have been fixated on when New York will sanction MMA events within the state. The day...
It truly was a classic and deservedly won Ring Magazine “Fight Of The Year” in 1969. Today the fight is often referred to as Frazier-Quarry I,...
Maybe it’s time to stop blaming the winner for all the boring tugfests we’ve seen in heavyweight boxing the last few years. Maybe it’s time to...
Vince Lombardi never won a Vince Lombardi Trophy, so I guess you’d have to say the Boxing Writers Association of America went one-up in 1995, when...
As the subway train stops at Manhattan’s Penn Station a swarm of baseball fans, decked out in Mets jerseys and caps, eagerly board and turn the...
GELSENKIRCHEN – Once again consensus heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko did what he was supposed to do, in the manner most predicted, as he completely controlled and...
When Michael Buffer, or Jimmy Lennon Jr, or Jimmy Lennon Sr used to intone …”for the heavyweight championship of the worrrrrrrrrrrrld,” the average hardcore fight fan...
A big, sloppy TSS kiss goes out to Versus, for buying the Adrian Diacanou/Jean Pascal main event from the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada, and to...
A press conference held to hype Top Rank’s Latin Fury X card quickly changed cue cards to: Who will fight Manny Pacquiao? All of the principles...
Special dates, such as anniversaries and birthdays, ought to be commemorated. They need to be commemorated. Just ask any husband who loses track of such an...
For the better part of the last month former cruiserweight champ David Haye did his best Muhammad Ali imitation trying to get under WBO/IBF heavyweight title...
Remember when Wladimir Klitschko was being touted by HBO as the heir apparent to Lennox Lewis after he neutralized Chris Byrd over 12 rounds in late...
Los Angeles is hot right now with the L.A. Lakers winning the NBA championship, the L.A. Dodgers leading the Major Leagues in wins, and the L.A....
RUMBLING ON THE RHEINE – There was a brief spell of bitterness around Ruslan Chagaev's camp after his rematch with Nikolai Valuev was cancelled, but it...
