Gone are the days when the flagship division in boxing was ruled by the Americans. With all four of the heavyweight champions being from the former...
Having recently returned from a seven-month European tour that saw him score two knockouts in Dublin and win a hard-earned and well-deserved 10-round decision over two-time...
CABAZON, CALIF.-Surviving two knockdowns NABF titleholder Enrique Ornelas pounded his way to victory over Arizona’s Norberto Bravo in middleweight clash on Friday. Ornelas probably expected an...
NEW YORK – Sultan Ibragimov knows where he needs to be Saturday night to dethrone IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. He needs to be in his...
The buzz surrounding Saturday’s Wladimir Klitschko/Sultan Ibragimov scrap at Madison Square Garden is somewhere in between a bingo game at a senior citizen’s home in Florida,...
Any time middleweight Enrique Ornelas steps in the ring someone is going to be hitting the deck or counting sheep. He’s like a human torch ready...
Can unseating a Sultan make you a king? That is the question hovering over Saturday night’s heavyweight unification fight at Madison Square Garden between IBF titleholder...
Undefeated junior middleweight Pawel “Raging Bull” Wolak, 19-0 (13 KOs), a native of Debica, Poland, who fights out of Brooklyn, cannot believe his good fortune. The...
Back in the 1930s, or even as recent as the 1980s, the wielder of the heavyweight title was considered the baddest man on the planet. Sadly,...
It would be impossible to say Bernard Hopkins stood mute Tuesday morning during a press conference at Planet Hollywood in Times Square called to launch a...
WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and longtime Reno Gazette-Journal boxing writer Steve Sneddon head the list of honorees who will be recognized at the 83rd...
A LOST DESERT SPORTSBOOK – Logical odds on Kelly Pavlik – Jermain Taylor II were 2-1 Pavlik. Logical Odds on Bernard Hopkins versus Joe Calzaghe : ...
You'd be forgiven if you hurried past Kimbo Slice or Tank Abbott if you were alone with either in a dark alley. Each fighter has an...
LAS VEGAS-Behind a power left jab and strafing right hands Kelly Pavlik bulled his way to another victory over former champion Jermain Taylor in a non-title...
There were no knockdowns, and the Pavlik/Taylor rematch will not considered for Fight of the Year, but it was a tightly contested tussle that took place...
Middleweights have always represented prizefighting at its best. From Jack “Nonpareil” Dempsey in the late 1800s to recent middleweights like Marvin Hagler and Vito Antuofermo, the...
The day of reckoning is here for Jermain Taylor and Kelly Pavlik. One will be right about himself and his opponent, at least to some extent....
As Manny Pacquiao entered the second story boxing gym one of the caretakers began shouting instructions for those people to leave unless they had permission. Quickly...
You all heard Jermain Taylor in the last few weeks, saying that he wasn’t in tip-top condition when he fought Kelly Pavlik the first time in...
Some guys need a lot of convincing. Jermain Taylor must be one of those guys. Why else, his conqueror wonders, would he jump back into the...
