NEW YORK—The most preposterous thing at the Manhattan Center’s Grand Ballroom Thursday night wasn’t even that Balboa-esque hat promoter Lou DiBella was walking around in. DiBella,...
It seems Mighty Mike Anchondo has been in the “hurting business,” as he says, for decades. But the Southern Californian hasn’t hit age 25 despite once...
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar—In front of a pulsating hangar packed with over 3,000 marines, Diego “The Nightmare” Sanchez created a roar of energy with a...
HBO, in its December incarnation of the once-flourishing “Boxing After Dark,” appears to have gotten things right for once. On Saturday, undefeated Jason Litzau, a marketable...
Two things became obvious in the second round. The first was that Tommy Rainone was going to win this fight. The second was, that he’d do...
Boxing films are like any other movie genre. There is a little bit of everything. We have inspirational sports movies (“Rocky”), satires (“The Great White Hype”),...
The fistic festivities at the Festhallelate on that long ago Christmas Dayended after the punch was servedby Sugar Ray. On the night of Dec. 25, 1950,...
This is the year we finally truly understood that the United States isn’t the be-all, end-all in boxing, especially in the heavyweight division. Sure, we conceded...
“We struggle. Always. We are doing the best that we can. And we dream of transcendence.” – Davis Miller “We admire them, we envy them, for...
Former journeyman heavyweight Leroy Caldwell, who fought out of Las Vegas throughout the seventies and early eighties, was in New York in early December. Yvonne Caples,...
Sometimes we can delve too deeply interpolating and distorting essence or trace so close to the contours of design we merely copy shadows. Getting a clear...
TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION—Being the favorite didn’t keep a strong trio of marquee fighters from feeling heavy heat last Friday, December 8, as Desert Diamond Casino closed...
It makes one wonder what drives a fighter like Diego “The Nightmare” Sanchez. He fights with the intensity of a tsunami inside the octagon where he...
He is the second most well known person from Kazakhstan in the minds of United States citizens, and Oleg Maskaev is quite a bit more beloved...
Hi. My name is Sam King Soliman, ranked 3# in the World by the WBA and fighting Mundine for the Super Middleweight World Title in early...
Undisputed middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor wrecked his way to victory last weekend, but there is a certain Contender waiting in the wings anxiously. His name...
The day Librado Andrade’s family decided to live across a boxing gym, his fate was sealed. Andrade was nine years old when he and younger brother...
In 1994, at 19, I was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML). I was told the only hope of survival was a bone marrow transplant. A...
by Robert Mladinich In his newly published book, “Two Ton, One Fight, One Night, Tony Galento v. Joe Louis” (Steerforth Press), author Joseph Monninger describes the...
Former WBO heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster, who won the crown with a TKO5 over Wladimir Klitschko in 2004, has been the invisible man since he lost...
