Goody Petronelli, the only trainer Marvelous Marvin Hagler ever knew, always used to say, “You can’t train a chin.’’ That is what Freddie Roach has to...
In the past six months or so the young upstarts have been knocked for a loop by the ageing master boxers like Bernard Hopkins, Sugar Shane...
Marco Antonio Barrera understands the scenario that has been laid out for him. He is walking a path trod by so many great champions before him...
IBF SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP LUCIAN BUTE vs. FULGENCIO ZUNIGAFINAL QUOTES AND WEIGHTS Thursday, Mar. 12, 2009 La Cage Aux Sports, Montreal, Canada “SHOBOX: THE NEW...
During the HBO BAD event in San Jose this past weekend, I witnessed one of the strangest scenes in my 27 years of existence as a...
SIX QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH LUCIAN BUTE ____________________________________________________________________________________ Montreal hero defends IBF title against hard-hitting Fulgencio Zuniga Friday, March 13, On a Special Edition of ShoBox:...
Images appear like electric ghosts when the knob is pulled on the Philco console. Eventually white letters shimmy on the television screen -“Gillette Cavalcade of Sports”-...
When Amir Khan tests himself Saturday night against three-division world champion Marco Antonio Barrera, it will not be a physical test. It will be an intelligence...
ATOP THE EUROPEAN HITTING HILL- Even if you're an undefeated champion, as the old saying goes, sometimes it's lonely to be the King. After stopping Raul...
A few of the best prizefighters in the world today have all mentioned one fighter who they’d like to challenge. That person has been retired for...
In the Bay Area sluggers dominated as James Kirkland and Victor Ortiz scored knockouts while Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero was forced to stop due to a...
Emanuel Steward had already mapped out the battle plan for young Andy Lee, studying the ins and outs of the former title contender named Antwun Echols,...
In a battle between welterweight contenders from the East Coast it was Delvin Rodriguez’s 11th round knockdown that proved the difference in beating Shamone Alvarez on...
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...
They bang, they bang. Former Ultimate Fighting Championship titleholder Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Keith “The Dean of Mean” Jardine prefer blowing out opponent’s jaws, noses, eye...
NEW YORK (March 6, 2009) – Irish Ropes Promotions announced today that its scheduled March 16th “Erin Go Brawl II” pro boxing show at WaMu Theater...
He would sit in the corner at Kronk, a boxing shrine on McGraw Street in the midst of a hard part of Detroit, and not say...
The resilience of the out-gunned Greek army against the immense Persian forces during the ancient Battle of Thermopylae is regarded as the prime example of how...
TSS readers regularly come up with tags for fights that obliterate the names given by promoters. I think our ace commenters might be able to do...
I have been hammering this theme of late, maybe because I’ve been caught up in a wave of change that our new President has ushered in....
