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...
LONDON — Audley Harrison and Amir Khan emerged from the Olympic Games (Harrison in 2000 and Khan in 2004) as conquering heroes to a nation of...
Eddie Sanchez has a gangly physique, and looks like he should have slow hands and like he'd be easy to hit. Yes, the 31-year-old New Orleans-based...
I used to watch the “Contender” when it first aired on TV. It was about prize fighting and prize fighters and it seemed to have a...
Ring announcer and disc jockey David Diamante has played by his own rules for all of his life. You need not look past his long dreadlocks...
TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION — Ricardo “Rocky” Juarez cruised along the fast lane comeback trail, speeding past what ended up as not much more than noble roadkill...
“I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves … a good boxer is an artist … Boxing is existential — some...
