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...
CANASTOTA, New York — You might think that, particularly for someone who makes his living around this sport, a visit to the Boxing Hall of Fame...
Three Mercedes and three SUVs, each heaving with burly, steely-eyed personnel make their way through the streets of London. This is not the cavalcade of a...
This past Saturday two big events unfolded that will more than likely affect the boxing landscape in the junior welterweight and welterweight divisions for the remainder...
Joshua Clottey’s struggles in the ring mirror his struggles with finding a suitable nickname. Americans, nonplussed by the nuances of accent despite our multicultural reputation, heard...
Veteran fight publicist Fred Sternberg arrives late to the Cotto-Clottey weigh-in on June 12. He strolls in like he owns the joint, confident and grinning. “Freddie's...
For many boxing fans, female fighters are still an anomaly. Men are supposed to be the hunter-gatherers of the human species, and as such certain occupations...
Fighting in another country is no easy task and when you add altitude and smog it becomes an even bigger venture as Melinda Cooper discovered. Cooper...
