Fans waiting to see Miguel Cotto in his comeback fight, eager to see if the ghost of Antonio Margarito haunted the Puerto Rican hitter, took in...
Mexican middleweight contender Marco Antonio Rubio claims to have a “secret plan” to knock out Kelly Pavlik on pay-per-view Saturday night. But most of the betting...
As a youngster Maureen Shea’s cousins in Guadalajara, Mexico called her “la traviesa” because of her fiery red hair and mischievousness. Shea’s fiery red hair turned...
I could have used one of those body language “experts” the NY tabloid papers always trot out to examine the mannerisms in speech and movement when...
Your past is not always easy to escape. Sometimes you can shake it. Other times you can never let it go. That is what Miguel Cotto...
LOS ANGELES-Across the street from the arena where one legend recently spanked a rising star a few weeks ago, two of the most avoided prizefighters, Winky...
“I HAVE A SECRET PLAN TO KNOCKOUT PAVLIK” – Marco Antonio Rubio, No. 1 Contender YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO (February 18, 2009) – No. 1 contender and mandatory...
Michael Jennings has an interesting view on the upside of a victory over Miguel Cotto on Saturday night. “Hopefully, if I beat Cotto, it will be...
If Antonio Margarito fights anywhere, inside or outside the United States, for the next year, the California Athletic Commission should ban him from boxing for life....
If I was Michael Jennings, I wouldn’t know whether to quietly cheer in a corner or stand up and demand more air time. I mean, Jennings...
Psychologically speaking, losing can be contagious. It doesn’t take Sigmund Freud to understand that suffering that first loss can be numbing to the mind and psyche....
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...
One of my favorite television shows when I was a kid was “Perry Mason,” if only because there was no moral ambiguity concerning the outcome of...
Don’t call Chuck Bodak a boxing trainer, though he worked in the boxing ring corners of some of the greatest prizefighters in the last 70 years....
The owner of half of the middleweight championship of the world knows the situation he’ll be in Feb. 21, when he defends those titles from the...
The scale hated Nate Campbell’s guts on Friday, but the judges smiled at him at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida on Saturday evening. They awarded...
February 12, 2009-The house was packed at the seams at The Four Points Sheraton Hotel in San Diego as a sold out crowd of approximately 1,000...
I’m pretty sure there are one or two other pro boxers who amassed a 17-1 mark within the last several years who are worse than Alexis...
Nate Campbell forgot. Barely 24 hours after insisting he would never forget all the struggles he’d endured before he became lightweight champion 11 months ago, Campbell...
Kermit Cintron has other things on his mind than Antonio Margarito’s apparently loaded fists but it’s still difficult for him to go long without having a...
