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...
A fighter’s won-loss record isn't the be-all end-all, nor is it a real indication of how good or great he is. The truth teller and lie-detector...
If losing a fight that expelled you out of contender status was not bad enough, then being branded a cheater–allegedly at this point–has to be the...
Is it soup yet for Vicente “Chente” Escobedo? The heralded former Olympian enters the ring again with renewed confidence spilling all over his square jaw and...
To hear members of their curious and frequently underappreciated profession tell it, cutmen are like those “meatball surgeons” on M*A*S*H. Instead of hanging around an Army...
“It was difficult at first,” remembers 21 year-old Mercito Gesta when he first arrived in San Diego from Cebu City, Philippines. “I didn’t want to leave...
It has been nearly a month since John Duddy’s boxing life changed decidedly for the worst, enough time to step back and try to put into...
They are burning the midnight oil in the White House, the Obamas, Geithners, and Bernankes. They are buying tubs upon tubs of ink, and firing up...
