ANAHEIM-The little guys rumbled and in the end Vic “Raging Bull” Darchinyan proved too fast and too elusive for the iron chinned Jorge “El Travieso” Arce...
Evil Vic talks a mean game, and even Darchinyan haters have to agree that most nights, he backs up his smack talk with his fists. Jorge...
MAYWOOD, CA.-Wow. That was some show opener. Jesus Soto Karass and Carson Jones erupted into a welterweight firefight for the debut of Azteca America’s new television...
Acclaimed trainer Freddie Roach is on the record. If the California commission finds that Antonio Margarito did indeed use illegal hand wraps, and that he did...
People in boxing keep saying Jorge Arce has a “puncher’s chance’’ to defeat unified junior bantamweight champion Vic Darchinyan Saturday night on SHOWTIME. That’s a polite...
Three heavy hitting fight cards take place in California in the next two days. First, Vic Darchinyan’s been saying that despite holding three world titles the...
For very likely the last time in boxing, Joe Calzaghe proved again that he’s no ordinary Joe. Thursday afternoon the reigning light heavyweight champion of the...
He was the boxing boy who cried wolf. He’d been threatening retirement for the last six months, telling us that he’d met and exceeded his expectations...
The winter winds bite deep in NYC today, burrowing in harder than usual on the cityfolk, most of whom are consumed with the possibility that our...
Ran Nakash says it’s really very simple. He heads the Krav Maga instructional division of the Israeli Defense Force, and the form of hand-to-hand combat he...
VIC DARCHINYAN, JORGE ARCE AND ANTONIO DEMARCO OPEN MEDIA/PUBLIC WORKOUT QUOTES Wednesday, Feb. 4, TKO Boxing Gym, Anaheim, California Three of the four fighters who will...
Frank Warren, like most promoters, believes in overstatement disguised as bombast, but Wednesday afternoon he may have been on to something while discussing the March 14...
Two names linked to boxing for decades are venturing into a new show called “Golpe a Golpe.” Bernardo Osuna and Marco Antonio Barrera have been around...
One key to a fighter's success that we don't often discuss is the fighter's ability to deal with the political aspects of the game. The wrangling...
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...
Death – actual death – finally brought a measure of peace to former heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson, whose once-athletic body had continued to function for these...
MEXICALI, MEXICO-Ricardo “Piolo” Castillo rallied from a near knockdown early in the fight to gut out a win over hard-hitting Abraham Rodriguez (14-6-2, 7 KOs) and...
Fight fans who tuned in to the main event of ESPN’s Friday Night Fights which unfolded at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada were feeling nervous...
Until the Antonio Margarito hand-wrap controversy is resolved (and it might never really be, given skepticism on both sides of the issue), everyone in boxing is...
The big talker with the big ego is predicting he'll win the big fight. He’s telling everyone how he’s going to “demolish, destroy and knock out”...
