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...
Sugar Shane Mosley’s decisive victory over Brooklyn’s Luis Collazo left many spectators shaking their heads in wonderment. Even Collazo had to bow his head at his...
You won’t find a more rock-solid boxer and human being than undefeated junior middleweight prospect Henry Crawford of Paterson, New Jersey. He will put his 13-0-1...
Hidden away from the public eye for more than a year, Ishe Smith has arisen from a sea of prizefighters like a lost sunken treasure. Sugar...
While pondering who among Pretty Boy Floyd, The Executioner, PacMan, the Pride of Wales or Magnifico should be Fighter of the Year for 2006, the nom...
Here is what the record book will state in perpetuity. January 20, 2007: Tommy Rainone W4 Jerry Kelly, Bushkill, PAJanuary 25, 2007: Tommy Rainone W4 John...
In the movies, Rocky Balboa trained for his fights by punching sides of beef in a Philadelphia slaughterhouse. Vidal Flores didn’t do that at the various...
Thirty minutes after Shane Mosley finished his precise dissection of Luis Collazo, I should have been ready to hit the sack. But I didn’t. Instead, I...
LAS VEGAS—Looking like the old Sugar Shane Mosley, the Pomona speedster zipped through the talented Luis Collazo on Saturday and was awarded the WBC interim welterweight...
ESPN2’s Friday Night Fight results from Seldon, NY Live from the Suffolk Community College in Selden, NY, in a card broadcast on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights,...
The home field is quite an advantage in a sport like football. In boxing, not always so much. Derric Rossy has now experienced both ends of...
