Sweden ends 36-year ban on boxing sort of Sweden, birthplace of former heavyweight champion of the world Ingemar Johansson and one of the more enlightened countries...
I have a special place for Tony Dodson, the Liverpool super-middleweight who lost to Carl Froch. That place is the Everton Sports Park Centre, April 13,...
Peter Manfredo Jr. of Providence, Rhode Island, will become the first fighter from “The Contender” reality television series to challenge for a world title when he...
After spending several years off-Broadway, Timothy Bradley finally hits the big stage Friday when he faces Colombia’s Jaime Rangel. Bradley, aka Desert Storm, makes his first...
Seven. Seems to be the magic number here. Seven stubborn pounds that former WBO junior-welterweight champ Miguel Cotto doesn’t have to lose now that he‘s eating...
It’s official: Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins is back Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins, 41, to the surprise of no one, has decided to cut short his retirement...
There is an old boxing cliché that says, “Savagery sells tickets, artistry sells hot dogs.” Whoever said that never saw Willie Pep fight. Willie Pep, the...
He is seventysomething, but looks younger. An athletic regimen that includes ample time on the ski slopes probably has a lot to do with it, but...
I tell you that the day is coming when the champions of the roped arena will be intellectual as well as physical giants. They will have...
There are not many heavyweights around today who can be described as having an exciting boxing style, and in all honesty Corrie Sanders is the only...
WBO featherweight champion fit as a fiddle after stint in jail Troubled WBO featherweight champion Scott Harrison, 29, who is set to defend his title against...
I’m a tough nut to crack. I don’t like “Rocky,” love “Raging Bull,” must be a dark side of the moon kind of guy. I remember...
Former world featherweight champion dies in Connecticut Former featherweight champion of the world Willie Pep died Thursday at West Hill Convalescent Home in Rocky Hill, Connecticut,...
In the 1950s a Mexican featherweight boxer named Kid Campeche won only seven of his 31 pro fights, but nevertheless achieved a certain immortality for what...
Junior welterweight prospect Kendall “Rated R” Holt of Paterson, New Jersey, adopted his unusual nickname when he heard Hasim Rahman describing his knockout of Lennox Lewis...
Following close to two years of verbal sparring, three postponements and a catalogue of obstacle and misfortune, Liverpool’s former British Super-Middleweight champion Tony Dodson finally exchange...
An uppercut slammed into Terdsak Jandaeng’s chin and sent him face first to the canvas with only ten seconds left in the second round. It seemed...
It’s the champagne of prizefights, the blue diamond of events with Pretty Boy Floyd Mayweather Jr. set to encounter Oscar “the Golden Boy” De La Hoya...
Wladimir Klitschko goes to Namibia and the movies In today’s The Moscow Times, a reprint from Reuters hails the IBF heavyweight champion of the world Wladimir...
Hollywood Madam will have to make do without Iron Mike Heidi Fleiss, 39, aka the Hollywood Madam, who made a name for herself providing booty to...
