Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton reminds some of the old prohibition era fighters who could drink you under the table or beat you in the alley. Think...
When news of Mike Tyson’s arrest in Arizona became public knowledge, the media’s response was entirely uniform and entirely predictable. There was no sense of either...
Former Women’s International Boxing Federation featherweight champion Deirdre Gogarty will always be remembered for her epic battle against Christy Martin on the pay-per-view televised undercard of...
Ali super snacks debut on his birthday this Wednesday The great Muhammad Ali, one of the best loved and, unfortunately, most exploited athletes of all time,...
He is one of Asia’s most influential boxing figureheads and is known in Thailand simply as “the General.” He is the President of the Asian Boxing...
Danger lurks for Sugar Shane Mosley. Pomona’s three-division world champion has agreed to fight Brooklyn’s Luis Collazo on Feb. 10 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and...
When I walk into my neighborhood polling place on Election Day, the workers start to retch and moan because they know they will have to decipher...
To read Part I of “More In The New Year” In the second part looking at fighters I am hoping to see much more of in...
Five years on from an unfulfilling prime Croydon’s Wayne Alexander, once one of Britain’s outstanding crop of 154-pounders and a former European champion, surely reached the...
The complexities of life and death and the pursuit of happiness are not lost on Dmitriy Salita. This is a man who left his place of...
Some fighters, win lose or draw, are always enjoyable to watch – exciting fighters make for exciting, action-packed fights, it’s that simple. There are several of...
Somebody much, much smarter than me once wrote that the best boxing films are not, at their core, films about the sweet science: “Raging Bull” is...
Friday Night Fights kicked off its second installment of the season with a card featuring some Contender Season Two stalwarts in action in Tacoma, Washington. K9...
It was a vicious and perfect right lightning bolt to the jaw that dropped Julio Gonzalez for the third time. He looked gone. He was flat...
While growing up in his native North Carolina, Beau Williford was a maniacal boxing fan. In 1968, at the age of 18, he wrote to the...
A number of big hitters have entered the arms race to train Oscar “The Golden Boy” De La Hoya including Jack Mosley and a double top-secret...
From rags to riches has always been coined as the American dream, but Vuyani “the Beast” Bungu made it a South African one during an impressive...
Listening to Ricky “Hitman” Hatton is like listening to Opie Taylor. Respectful and polite outside the ring, he sounds like a choirboy stuck in a longshoreman’s...
Shannon Briggs/Sultan Ibragimov at Madison Square Garden On March 10 at Madison Square Garden’s Theater in New York City, Shannon Briggs (48-4-1, 42 KOs), still basking...
It was never just about the money, though you couldn’t tell that to the punks downtown. They wouldn’t listen, never believed it. The punks downtown –...
