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...
Such is the state of the heavyweight championship of the world today that it can be pre-empted by a possible conflict with an NCAA wrestling tournament....
It looks like Miguel Cotto has a dance partner for his annual Madison Square Garden Puerto Rican Day Parade gig. There are some particulars to iron...
Floyd “Money” Mayweather was back in the gym on Wednesday sparring once again, according to one of our TheSweetScience.com sources. When we tried to get TSS...
Where there’s smoke there’s fire. Where there are Internal Revenue Service agents, there’s a boxer coming out of retirement. That should confirm for you the validity...
A standout pro boxer is cut from different cloth than you or I. They are risk takers, and have a tolerance to pain, mental and physical,...
Roy Jones, Jr. Breaks Up Lashley-Guida Skirmish at Press Conference At the final press conference for Roy Jones' boxing/MMA card in Pensacola yesterday, MMAer Bobby Lashley...
It’s back to Germany. While most prizefighters refuse to accept fights in Deutschland, tiny Elena “Baby Doll” Reid loves Germany. “I love the fans,” said Reid...
Used to be is often the saddest phrase in sports. So it has become for Roy Jones, Jr. It used to be an event whenever Jones...
IBF/IBO Light Heavyweight Championship DAWSON2TARVER Saturday, May 9 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas LIVE ON HBO DAWSON AND TARVER SET DATE FOR WORLD...
SHAWN ESTRADA Q 'n' A The Californian Estrada is 2-0 as a pro, with two stops. Age 23, the 2008 US Olympian is a 6-1 middleweight/super...
In the fight game, publicity is not always directly proportionate to talent. Just ask Juan Carlos Gomez. Despite being one of the most dominant cruiserweight champions...
