When it comes to youngsters you couldn’t meet two finer and more pleasant prizefighters than Vicente Escobedo or Dominic Salcido unless you picked them out of...
So far, so good. It is Sept. 25, and as far as we know, Vitali Klitschko’s body is cooperating with the large Ukrainian as he readies...
World titleholder Paul “The Punisher” Williams and top heavyweight contender Chris “The Nightmare” Arreola return to action on familiar grounds on Thursday. Williams moves up to...
Former three-time world boxing champion Julian Jackson, who fought out of the US Virgin Islands, is regarded as one of the hardest punchers of all time. ...
Some people stay too late in boxing. Others leave too soon. Oscar Suarez was one of the latter. Last week boxing lost more than a good...
Being undersized is nothing new for Steve Forbes. Having been born two months early weighing just two pounds, the Oregon native had to battle against the...
THE WIDE RANGING BORDERS OF CLASS – There are many ways this weekend's Shane Mosley – Ricardo Mayorga duke out might unfold. Some observers had a...
Ray Mercer's foe on Sept. 5 in Sweden is known, in press packets anyway, as “the Dutch Sonny Liston.” In other circles, he's known as a...
It was the perfect punch. Unfortunately for Daniel Ponce De Leon it landed on his chin, delivered by opponent Juan Manuel Lopez on June 7th. Lopez...
Us fight fans get frustrated that we don’t see more showdowns between the Old Guard and the New Guard. Why, people ask, do we see so...
California’s Jennifer Barber doesn’t have time to fiddle around with preliminaries and move slowly up the rankings. She wants action now. That’s why Barber and Brooke...
When Joan Guzman said he was moving up in weight he wasn’t kidding. Guzman’s unconscionable actions both in the days leading up to last Saturday’s debacle...
DUSSELDORF – I'm not certain that undefeated, 20 year old flyweight Susi “Killer Queen” Kentikian is currently the best pound for pound female fighter on the...
It’s Saturday and that means it’s the day of the two big fights on the Golden Boy Promotions card including Juan Manuel Marquez-Joel Casamayor and Sergio...
LAS VEGAS – Juan Manuel Marquez’s four-year war with Manny Pacquiao continued Saturday night and the latest collateral damage was felt intensely by Joel Casamayor. The...
Lots of things are happening in pro boxing especially in Las Vegas including questions about Oscar De La Hoya’s new trainer, press conferences on various upcoming...
He was at or near the top of everyone’s Most Avoided List, back in 2006, and for good reason. Paul Williams, with freakishly long arms sewed...
The lead-up to the Nov. 8 showdown between Roy Jones and Joe Calzaghe is kind of important to HBO, which is the purveyor of the pay...
Joan Guzman screwed up royally when he came into his Saturday bout with Nate Campbell overweight, didn't shave off the 3 1/2 pounds he was over,...
Former two-time North American Boxing Federation Middleweight champ Art Hernandez was so fast, so slippery, Ron Stander once said of him, “I couldn’t hit Art with...
