Conventional wisdom whispered loudly at the weigh in on Friday. Samuel Peter stepped on the scale, and the scale groaned, and asked the Nigerian politely to...
LOS ANGELES-Fast Eddie Chambers proved he belongs with the big boys in winning by majority decision over former heavyweight world champion Samuel Peter in a back...
With the coming of spring comes the busy sound of speed bags, three-minute buzzers and the sport of professional boxing heading full blast into its best...
SIX QUESTIONS WITH RONALD HEARNS ____________________________________________________________________________________ The Son of Former Legendary Champion to Battle Harry Joe Yorgey In Matchup of Unbeatens on ShoBox: The New Generation,...
Jermain Taylor’s last stand is at hand. Once the former undefeated middleweight champion was on an arcing trajectory toward heights he could not even imagine. Then...
Samuel Peter and Eddie Chambers flew back from Germany with little more than the clothes on their back and a loss on their record. Now they’re...
Few writers describe the gritty underbelly or the glorious pageantry of boxing better than Ivan Goldman, a longtime contributor to The RING magazine. His forthcoming novel,...
WBC SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMP CARL FROCH, FORMER UNDISPUTED CHAMP JERMAIN TAYLOR PRESS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2009 World Title Showdown Takes Places On Saturday, April...
Led by Antonio Diaz, Indio’s pro boxing team has an extremely busy week with many of the gym’s fighters taking part in important bouts throughout North...
What’s worse than getting in the ring with Paul “The Punisher” Williams? Let me put it this way. Most fighters would rather marry the “OctoMom” and...
The ballots have all been counted. The 2008 award winners as determined by the members of the “Boxing Writers Association of America” are as follows: For...
The forthcoming book “Brute” follows two Sacramento boxers: Mike Simms, a cruiserweight who trained with the Olympic team in 2000, who when I found him had...
Juan Manuel Marquez is attempting to bite off far more than he can chew. The current unified lightweight champion, fresh off a scintillating ninth-round knockout of...
Professional boxing could use a few more men like Chuck Wepner. At a time when the sport faces its biggest identity crisis in decades, and continues...
STUTTGART – This funky city is an old school industrial automotive metropolis, with lots of working class characters and a modernized central area that seem ready...
DUBLIN, Ireland — Remarkable displays of resilience were on show at the Bernard Dunne-Ricardo Cordoba event at the O2 Arena – and not just inside the...
On the sadness scale, it’s nowhere close to Joe Louis earning chump change as a pro wrestler, but there is something a little bit sad about...
DUBLIN – Trailing by margins of six and seven points on two scorecards, Ireland’s Bernard Dunne rallied to knock out Ricardo Cordoba with a second remaining...
It was no classic, the Vitali Klitschko-Juan Carlos Gomez heavyweight title bout which unfolded in Stuttgart, Germany on Saturday. But in this diminished era of the...
I think Miguel “Mickey Mouse” Roman beat Fernando Beltran in the featherweight main event of ESPN’s Friday Night Fights, which took place at the Laredo Entertainment...
