Juan Manuel Lopez graduated from prospect to budding star in the opening bout on the HBO card in Atlantic City, NJ on Saturday evening. Lopez, a...
Vernon Forrest talked a heck of a game coming in to his title fight with Sergio Mora. He called Mora, a reality show contestant, a “pretender”...
LONDON — Entering UFC 85, Matt Hughes repetitively insisted that he was still in his fighting prime. But Thiago Alves didn’t believe those words. And now...
Long, Tall Paul is back. Paul Williams was embarrassed back in February, when Carlos Quintana schooled him, and took away his WBO 147 pound strap. Everyone...
So what do Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik and Daniel Ponce De Leon have in common? Both love to win by crushing knockouts. Middleweight champion Pavlik defends...
Herman Ngoudjo first impressed fightwatchers when he gave Jose Luis Castillo problems in a 2007 loss, and he gave Paul Malignaggi some worries when they met...
On the same day that Evander Holyfield went broke, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. announced his retirement. He’ll be back. Sadly, maybe they both will. I say this...
Eric Gomez has made clear to WBO super bantamweight champion Daniel Ponce De Leon that his moment has come. Tonight. When he faces undefeated No. 1...
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has announced his retirement again, the AP reports. The P4P king says he does not have the passion to fight. Mayweather, the WBC...
The readers rule here at TSS. I submit that we have the smartest bunch of fight fans in existence logging on to this website, and offering...
Hunger can make a person do things he otherwise might shrink from doing and it’s a major driving force behind California’s Sergio “The Latin Snake” Mora....
What a difference a year makes. In that time, Kelly Pavlik has gone from a relatively obscure, much-avoided prospect to the toast of the boxing world. ...
Carlos Quintana isn’t managed by Rodney Dangerfield but maybe he should be. What else would explain why the reigning WBO welterweight champion is so disrespected he’s...
Although Melissa “Missy” Fiorentino of Cranston, Rhode island, owns the IWBF and NABF featherweight titles, she was extremely disappointed when her June 20 fight with WBC...
HOLLYWOOD-Only a few people were present as Manny Pacquiao arrived at the Wild Card Boxing gym on Tuesday, including a few of the fighters the Filipino...
I’ve always tried to keep an open mind on The Contender. Part of this, I confess, is nothing more than being mindful of where I get...
Retirement? In your dreams, pal. Maybe in five or 10 years. Stepping away is for those other guys, those thirty-somethings with the long list of wars...
Nothing can be taken for granted in the precarious world of combat sports, and that applies to hall of fame fighters and the world’s largest MMA...
Talk is cheap and it is a good thing it is, or Jack Loew and Enzo Calzaghe would be working for free Saturday night in Atlantic...
The past year has been a difficult one for light heavyweight contender Yusaf Mack of West Philadelphia. Besides incurring his second career loss in October, by...
