James “Lights Out” Toney is like a savvy car salesman trying to sell you one of those “look-what-I-got” sports cars you know you can’t afford. Before...
Five months ahead of the mega-fight between “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather and the “Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya, the first blow has already been landed,...
Immediately after stopping Ronny Glover in the first round at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, Long Island, on December 15, junior middleweight...
On the undercard the Sam Peter/James Toney Jan. 6 heavyweight rematch from the Seminole Hard Rock in Miami, Fla. (SHOWTIME), WBA super welterweight champion Jose Rivera...
Layla McCarter puts on her headgear atop her foppish hair before jumping in the Las Vegas boxing ring while a group of men stop to watch...
The title sounds like a good kids’ suspense novel, but the only one getting suspended was me. Here’s how it went down, editor-in-chief Robert Ecksel shot...
As the blossoming calendar beckoned, Oscar de la Hoya beamed with cheerful satisfaction and looked toward another big year, another big fight. De la Hoya won’t...
El Finito,” “El Terrible,” those are tough, nasty nicknames used by two great Mexican fighters, Ricardo Lopez and Erik Morales. But how about “El Cepillo?” Joel...
The Queen giveth and the Queen taketh away Former featherweight champion Naseem Hamed, recently released from prison after serving four months of his 15 month sentence...
Like just about everyone else who heard that Sylvester Stallone was going to reprise his role as Rocky in the just released film “Rocky Balboa,” former...
Samuel Peter claims he has dynamites in my two hands? Heavyweight contenders Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter and James Lights Out? Toney get it on a...
LAS VEGAS—UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck “Iceman” Liddell’s fists proved too much for Huntington Beach’s Tito Ortiz who was stopped in the third round before a...
There are claims that boxing is dying. Hogwash. The heavyweight division isn’t the only division in boxing and 2007 promises to be a banner year in...
Even with the newfound popularity of the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and Ultimate Fighting, the latter of which presented a December 30 pay-per-view extravaganza from Las...
With the benefit of hindsight, we may look back at 2006 as the year our beloved sport, the Savage Science, got choked out in the scrap...
Might doesn’t always make right as many will see when Tito “Bad Boy” Ortiz engages UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell on Saturday. Two...
2006 was Pongsaklek Wongjongkam’s year. He racked up four title defenses, broke the record for consecutive title defenses by a flyweight and successfully made his sixteenth...
Managing fighters is a risky and tricky business not for the faint of heart. A win in a packed venue can induce a surge of adrenaline...
None of us thought that Evander Holyfield would come within sniffing distance of a heavyweight championship again. In 2004, his career, glorious and rewarding, had come...
The Fighting Fisherman: Hard man faces hard time Former light heavyweight contender Yvon Durelle, 77, who retired from boxing in 1963 with a 90-24-2, 51 KOs...
