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...
DAWSON2TARVERSaturday, May 9 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las VegasLIVE ON HBO World Championship Boxing DAWSON READY TO GIVE TARVER A POUND FOR POUNDING! LAS...
Black clouds gather fast and break over Forbes Field in Pittsburgh where Tommy Gibbons (51-0) and Harry Greb (159-12) are fighting like hell. It’s the last...
Well he did it, that's right Floyd “I Won't Fight In My Division” Mayweather Jr. provided his own version of “Shock and Awe” before the Pacquiao-Hatton...
The money rained into the ring as soon as the final bell rang. The $128 collected were in singles with a couple of fives and tens...
“Thunderstruck” by AC/DC blared as Manny Pacquiao made his way to the ring with his entourage. Two men who looked like giants walked behind him. On...
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. isn’t taking any tune-up fights before his July 18 comeback, but then again, he also isn’t taking many chances either. After a 16...
Part of the fun of sports video games is fooling around with athletes and creating situations that would never happen in real life. Subbing a backup...
LAS VEGAS-Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao can punch. Boy can he punch. Before a packed house of more than 17,000 people at the MGM Grand, a boisterous crowd...
Bring on Floyd Mayweather. After Manny Pacquiao’s destructive display against Ricky Hatton at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday night, it is not a...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER RETURNS TO THE SWEET SCIENCE Las Vegas, NV (May 2, 2009) – Sixteen months after one of the greatest fighters ever to grace the...
Lightweight contender Urbano Antillon and former Contender television show participant Alfonso Gomez both won by knockout on Friday. At the new Hard Rock Hotel arena Antillon...
I don't make it a habit to endorse or suggest that fans reach in their pocket and buy a particular fight. In fact, if I'm not...
The alleged riff between Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton and trainer Floyd Mayweather is just rumors according to one Golden Boy Promotions source. “Whenever there is a...
Nearly everywhere he looks around Las Vegas this week, Ricky Hatton sees that he is not the story. Yet everything he has is on the line....
Since he began his professional career in 1995, Manny Pacquiao has developed a rocket-like straight left hand, a solid right hook, and side-to-side movement that can...
With what will undoubtedly be one of the biggest boxing events fast approaching Saturday with Pacquiao-Hatton, fight fans are buzzing with anticipation. Such occasions stir excitement...
Predictions are like children. Parents crow over their golden offspring, boasting about their exploits and brilliance. With their less stellar spawn, parents aren’t as inclined to...
Standing straight up Manny Pacquiao is about the size of the top of a Mercedes Benz sedan, not necessarily imposing when you’re talking about a fighter...
Who said boxing was dying? Not in my town. San Diego is by no means small but it’s certainly not Los Angeles or New York. So...
