A fairly compelling little club show took place last Thursday, but I held off on writing about it, knowing everyone would be fixated on the forthcoming...
A sophomore jinx is a term that refers to a second (sophomore) effort that fails to live up to the first effort. This can happen in...
LAS VEGAS – Ricky Hatton was in Las Vegas for one reason over the weekend. He was there to look at his next opponent. What he...
The great revelations that shape our way of thinking almost never come in the form of a burning bush or dreams in which angels imprint some...
Weeks of monastic discipline and physical torment, years of voracious ambition and superior athletic endeavour merged on Saturday to produce an exhilarating contest between Carl Froch...
LAS VEGAS – As things turned out, it was over before it started. For eight long rounds Saturday night, Manny Pacquiao beat the bejesus out of...
The Oscar De La Hoya/Manny Pacquaio clash which took place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday night was tabbed by promoters, with fingers...
Is this a precursor to a larger shocker to come? HBO’s scale showed Oscar weighing 147 pounds, and Manny weighing 148 ½ pounds several hours before...
There is no more useful trialhorse in and around the welterweight division than David Estrada. He’s been matched up with the best and the brightest in...
LAS VEGAS – The tale of the tape was re-written last night but in the end remained unchanged. An angry Freddie Roach demanded Oscar De La...
This may not be THE year of the upset in the sweet science, but it has been a year of upsets. Margarito over Cotto, Hopkins over...
Boxing experts say a good big man always beats a good little man when you get down to the root of analyzing a fight between champions....
LAS VEGAS – A promoter, by the very nature of his job, is an optimist. But Bob Arum seems to be taking that to a new...
World class boxing comes to Costa Rica on Friday, Dec. 5, when Roberto Garcia takes on Humberto Aranda in a middleweight scrap. The 24-2 Mexican Garcia...
Buried beneath all the hype surrounding Saturday’s Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao extravaganza in Las Vegas, a fight thousands of miles away for a vacant 168-pound...
Miguel Torres was dared to stand and fight by Manny Tapia and got his wish. Torres abruptly stopped two-fisted fellow Mexican mixed martial arts fighter Tapia...
LAS VEGAS – It’s Hype Day of Fight Week, the final big day of tub thumping before Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao fade from...
From NBC to ESPN to Versus. From Sly Stallone to Sugar Ray Leonard to Tony Danza. The arc of The Contender, from its broadcast home, to...
Welterweight slugger Luis Carlos Abregu (24-0, 21 KOs) is a long way from home in the high climate of Big Bear, California where he’s been training...
Settle down boys. It‘s a little early to start hurling insults. Save it. There’s plenty of time left for some real prime trash talk closer to...
