LAS VEGAS-Another journey into the deep desert took place last weekend to cover both mixed martial arts and boxing. On Friday we took a drive into...
“My guy stole defeat from the jaws of victory,” boxing promoter Lou DiBella says to me, sitting comfortably in his office chair, an incongruous San Diego...
Tomasz Adamek to Defend IBF World Cruiserweight Title vs. Hackensack’s Bobby Gunn Saturday, July 11th at Newark’s Prudential Center Totowa, New Jersey—The “Main Event Boxing Series”...
Yet another fighter from the Riverside area of California makes his main event debut when Michael “Lil Warrior” Franco meets Juan Beltran in a junior featherweight...
Difficult as it may be to believe, once there was a time when world title belts were more than an albatross around a fighter’s neck. To...
Mexico’s Alfredo “Perro” Angulo and Colombia’s Yonnhy Perez have a lot of things in common though size isn’t one of them. Angulo (15-0, 12 KOs), a...
Legal ethics require Josh Dubin to consider the evidence before and during a trial. From a purely evidentiary standpoint, if Dubin were to go before a...
WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev has dubbed Saturday´s rematch against “champion in recess” Ruslan Chagaev the “most important fight” of his life. The Russian Giant (50-1,...
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is showing to be Ali-like in one sense since coming out of his scripted retirement. That is, he provides those who follow and...
The thought first hit him as a broom he was pushing fell apart and clattered down the metal steps at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence...
Gentlemen and ladies, there is a new name you might want to add to your watch list of hitters in and around 147 pounds. Antwone Smith,...
PRIMM, NEVADA-New York’s Dimitriy “Star of David” Salita shook out the dust of inactivity and found himself staring at the physically bigger Kansas steak sized Raul...
People have been saying light heavyweight Glen Johnson is underrated for so long now that Johnson has become the most overrated fighter in boxing. Johnson (49-12-2)...
Joe Louis was a World War II patriot who donated two of his boxing purses to military relief funds. He lifted a nation when he declared,...
LAS VEGAS-It had to happen some day, a karate master finally won a major mixed martial arts championship and the biggest title of all when Brazil’s...
For the first time in the UFC’s relatively brief history, two undefeated fighters clashed with a title up for grabs, at UFC 98 in Las Vegas,...
The crowd of about 750 patrons at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego were barely back in their seats before the main event between lightweights...
Jockey Calvin Borel, who jumped off his Kentucky Derby-winning horse, Mine That Bird, for the mount on Preakness winner Rachel Alexandra, isn’t the only sports figure...
Sugar Rashad Evans doesn’t know karate but he knows crazy and he’s hoping his professional street fighting style can offset karate man Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida...
There is some irony, as well a bit of symmetry, to the fact that the Irish Arts Center is located in the Hell’s Kitchen section of...
