With mandatory steroid testing poised to begin in March, a California state official revealed that 52 professional boxers and mixed martial arts fighters including Cesar Gracie, ...
If I were a politician, I think I’d be unelectable. For starters, there’s all that hemp I consumed way back when—–and it wasn’t to make sweaters,...
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.-Boxing most famous fighter Oscar De La Hoya and the sports most talented Floyd Mayweather Jr. ended the eight-day promotional tour with a final stomp...
“All I ever heard is how some scandal is another nail in boxing’s coffin. You know, this coffin’s got nothing but sales.” The quote, made by...
ONTARIO — Lightweight prospects Josesito Lopez and Dominic Salcido found out during the week their opponents had changed but that didn’t stop them from dominating at...
SUNSET IN THE DESERT — In boxing, as in art, love, or other sweet sciences, sometimes the fine line between glory and Tyson’s Bolivia is just...
For a guy who had just two amateur bouts and lost both of them, Thomas W. Lovgren’s impact on boxing in the State of Nebraska has...
When boxing’s Third Man Theme is on key, the referee is not talked nor written about. If the sour note of controversy, however, is sounded, the...
Since the fight has been made public, people in my atmosphere have been asking me whom do I think will win “the fight”? (You know it...
Sugar Ray Leonard moaned when reminded that, on April 6, it will have been 20 years since his immaculate upset of Marvelous Marvin Hagler in Las...
There are different ways to say goodbye. It remains a bittersweet science. Star-crossed former champion Johnny Tapia bids farewell to the gloved up side of things...
Whenever I meet or see a person in Cambodia that is around 40 or older, I find myself wondering if they were part of the genocide...
Inland area boxing fans get a treat when Riverside’s Josesito Lopez and Rialto’s Dominic Salcido are featured on separate junior lightweight bouts at the Ontario Doubletree...
At any point in a boxer’s career you can draw lines to connect the dots – time lines and opponents, victories and tragedies, things done, things...
You’ve maybe heard from a source or two that boxing is dying? Well, the sport may not be in the prime of its life, but it...
Deep in Central Mexico there must be thousands of boxing fans who wish they were living in Southern California when Rafael Marquez and Israel Vazquez meet...
Idi Amin/Forrest Whitaker: When a boxer becomes a dictator Politics is like boxing you try to knock out your opponents. Idi Amin Forrest Whitaker has a...
The Lookbanyai Boxing Camp is nestled in a densely populated, residential neighborhood in Bangkok, just up the street from the Fortune Hotel where pirated software and...
All due respect must be paid to Sechew Powell, a most capable ring technician who won a ring generalship chess match against Ishe Smith. And I...
NEW YORK — Paulie Malignaggi knew going in, as did the rest of us, that he would be fighting two opponents at the Hammerstein Ballroom Saturday...
