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...
How long does it take to decide if a piece of wet gauze has plaster of Paris on it or not? In my two-year-old’s classroom at...
Fans who took in the January 17 Andre Berto-Luis Collazo scrap on HBO were not disappointed, and everyone basically agrees that a rematch would make sense....
They come, frequently unannounced and unexpected, like pilgrims to a holy place. The most recent batch was from England, tourists who had come to Philadelphia ostensibly...
LOS ANGELES-Even bulletproof glass can be shattered as Sugar Shane Mosley proved against Antonio Margarito by battering and battering the once impregnable chin of the WBA...
It’s why we love boxing, the theater of the unexpected. Shane Mosley had a megacluster of storm clouds, including steroids allegations, a split with his trainer/father...
IBF/WBC/WBA CHAMP VIC DARCHINYAN MEETS NATIONAL BOXING MEDIA SATURDAY, JAN. 24, 2009 Arce A No-Show at Wilshire Grand Hotel, Los Angeles Before a jam-packed gathering, which...
Manny Pacquiao finally locked in the biggest payday of his career Friday – a guaranteed $12 million to face off with Ricky Hatton May 2 at...
Numbers, numbers, numbers. If you’re an ardent fan of the sweet science then you’re quite possibly one of those people that looks at two fighter’s records,...
It was on, then it was off, now it’s on again. We think. Word is Manny Pacquiao has accepted the contractual terms, and will glove up...
The first superfight of 2009 comes tomorrow, as the new king of the welterweights, Antonio Margarito, takes on three-division champion and all-time great “Sugar” Shane Mosley...
Naazim Richardson’s personal preference is to introduce his fighters to boxing at an early age and to painstakingly guide them along the path that, hopefully, someday...
Apparently Manny Pacquiao is tired of being the A side and being paid like he’s the B side. Frankly, who could blame the pound-for-pound best fighter...
In his last fight Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero delivered a sizzling three-punch combination comparable to a flawless jazz solo or a master painter’s rendering. It was...
With word coming out that Pacquiao-Hatton might be DOA, and that Oscar De La Hoya is considering stepping in with The Hitman on May 2nd in...
It looks like Ricky Hatton will be fighting somebody on May 2 in Wembley Stadium, but it doesn’t look like his foe will be Manny Pacquiao....
The last time we saw Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik in the prize ring, he had just been schooled by a middle-aged professor who was 43, quickly...
Jose Torres could fight and he could write but most of all he could laugh. If you knew him well that is what drew you to...
With little acknowledgment Luis Spada died Saturday in his adopted country Panama. If you don’t recognize the name it’s one of Spada’s traits that he maintained...
MIRANDA WANTS TAYLOR…NOW With the talk of a March bout on Showtime featuring former middleweight champion Jermain Taylor tearing through the boxing world, super middleweight contender...
