DUSSELDORF – Transplanted European big boys Alexander Dimitrenko and Luan Krasniqi are set to slug it out for German bragging rights this Saturday night at the...
“Vegas is all about skill, guts and standing proud,” touts the mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman. The city is America’s party capital all year round,...
It’s common knowledge among boxing promoters or anyone in the pugilistic business that the engine that drives the sport is mainly powered from Hispanics in the...
The Teacher is not teaching. At least that’s what Nacho Beristain wants you to believe. The 69-year-old Beristain is one of the greatest trainers ever to...
A fighter can get some hometown help when he’s fighting in his backyard, and in New England, boxers have been helped every now and again by...
Dear Joe, Congratulations on your win over Roy Jones last Saturday night. I’m happy to see that you’re finally getting some overdue credit, and now that...
PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES (November 13, 2008) . . . Olympic Gold Medalist and 10-time world champion in six weight classes, Oscar de la Hoya opened...
NASHVILLE SLUGGING SKYLINE – There could be a ring of fire as faded stars try to cash in amidst the green hills of Tennessee. When former...
Freddie Roach is confident and he’s making sure Oscar De La Hoya knows it. It is a month now before Roach will stand in the corner...
Would I be stepping out of line, and breaking the “magician’s code” of the fightwriting sphere if I said that too often, we keyboard tappers overplay...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree. —Samuel Coleridge Sadly, it has come to this for Evander Holyfield, proud warrior of so many epic...
SHERMAN OAKS, CA.-Looking like a Mutt and Jeff face-off, James “Lights Out” Toney stood there bending his neck backward to get a look at too-tall Tony...
* photo courtesy Alex Gorokhov Brooklyn-based welterweight Dmitriy Salita has always been in the spotlight, but after outpointing Kansas’s Derrick Campos on the opening bout of...
NEW YORK – Maybe Roy Jones Jr. could do it. Maybe he had it inside him to defy Father Time. Defy the odds against him. Defy...
Quick, name a contemporary boxer who retired with more than 100 victories. How many guys can you name? Did you come up with Harold Brazier? Brazier...
When you stop and think about it, sports are inherently unfair, biased as they are against the short, slow, uncoordinated, paunchy and weak. Hey, we all...
BAMBERG – We all know a night at the fights can mean many things to many people. Saturday night, at a frenzied, sold out JAKO Arena...
NEW YORK – Midway through his fight with Joe Calzaghe last night, Roy Jones, Jr. became Roy Jones, Sr. A boxing ring is a terrible place...
The crowd said, 'Yes he can' when Roy Jones knocked Joe Calzaghe to the mat in the first. The crowd said, 'Maybe he can’t' when Calzaghe...
It’s the 29th annual World Boxing Hall of Fame induction ceremony and will be packed with a number of boxing’s best when Lennox Lewis, Pernell Whitaker,...
