NEW YORK – The safest place in America must be the streets of Brownsville on a night when Curtis (Showtime) Stevens is fighting in Manhattan. Actually,...
Floyd Mayweather gets it. He understands that the expectations we have for him are supersized. He understands that with a 37-0 record, and crazyfast hands, and...
Ashcan School painter of boxing matches gets his due The artist George Bellows, who painted some of the most memorable boxing scenes in the history of...
Former bantamweight champion dies in Paris, France Former bantamweight champion of the world, Alphonse Halimi, died Sunday in Paris, France at the age of 74 from...
It was mentioned the other day that while Manny Pacquiao was busy training to fight Erik Morales, Erik Morales wasn’t only busy training to fight Manny...
Contenders take the forefront as Sam Soliman and Enrique Ornelas tangle in a middleweight showdown at Soboba Casino on Friday. The casino is 30 miles southeast...
There are few men in boxing as explosive and exciting as Mexico City’s Rafael Marquez. Currently the IBF bantamweight champion, Marquez (36-3, 33 KO’s) is pound-for-pound...
When people start ticking off things they dislike about boxing, somewhere in the top-ten, saddled in the vicinity of weighing-in the day before a fight, too...
Once again, for the umpteenth time, El Presidente Jose Sulaiman and his roving band of boxing angels at the WBC have attempted to slide their greedy...
A third fight between boxers signals that their first two bouts produced an exciting victory for each man and that the rubber match is saleable. This...
They came to Mecca to find boxing’s savior. Wladimir Klitschko, who just may be a doctor and a savior, did the best he could. More than...
Layla McCarter seeks to stamp her footprint on boxing history when she meets Belinda Laracuente for the GBU lightweight world title in three-minute rounds. All previous...
As if in answer to his prayers, Mzonke Fana will be receiving the opportunity to blot the memory of his defeat a year ago at the...
Maybe something was lost in the translation. Maybe it was the questions and how they were asked. Or maybe it was just former world champion Erik...
Jermain Taylor retirement plans already in the works WBC middleweight champion Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor intends to abandon the middleweight division next year to move up...
Former heavyweight champ buried with honors in Jamaica Former heavyweight champion of the world Trevor Berbick was buried over the weekend with a pair of red...
Floyd Mayweather and crew let loose in Las Vegas While scanning the nation’s gossip columns for tidbits on this and that, there was a recent Floyd...
When the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHoF) announces its 2007 inductees this January, it is a sure bet that Roberto Duran, Pernell Whitaker, and Ricardo...
You did not have to be a particularly educated student of the savage science to note after two rounds on Saturday evening that Wladimir Klitschko was...
NEW YORK – After boxing for six rounds as if he didn’t own a right hand, Wladimir Klitschko suddenly smelled blood – his own. And once...
