BURBANK, Calif. – In the heart of the San Fernando Valley two of its boxing sons Miguel Espino and Rigoberto Plascencia brutalized each other as expected...
It’s the place you hang your hat. It’s where the heart is. There’s no place like it. Home. Well, kind of. Home is where St. Petersburg,...
Last Saturday evening, when all eyes were on Nikolay Valuev’s American debut, IBF Flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan slid underneath the radar on the co-feature of the...
If you think your week was bad then take solace in what former Junior Lightweight and Lightweight champion Diego Corrales had to endure. Battling to make...
Peter Manfredo/Joey Spina have a score to settle in Providence Peter “The Pride of Providence” Manfredo, Jr. (25-3, 11 KOs) is ready for his showdown against...
Bad Intentions meets The Dream for middleweight honors Hometown hero Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor, the undisputed and undefeated world middleweight champion, will put it all on...
Cameroon’s Australia based Sakio Bika becomes the 42nd man to try to blemish Joe Calzaghe’s pristine professional record this weekend, when the two clash for the...
Ignacio “Nacho” Beristain grew up as an orphan in Mexico City and found that boxing was a way to cope with the inevitable would-be predators that...
Last October 8 in Milan, one of the biggest cards of the last ten years was promoted by Salvatore Cherchi. In the main event, Giovanni Parisi...
Americans just don’t respect British fighters, so when Joe Calzaghe met our own Jeff “Left Hook” Lacy earlier this year it was expected to be a...
The RING magazine lauds Calzaghe, but others say not so fast IBF/WBO super middleweight king Joe Calzaghe was honored by The RING magazine today in Manchester...
The weigh-in before the fight is controlled by rules and by ritual. Two men, bare-chested, challenging each other with hard eyes and hard muscles, as each...
There is nothing like starting at the top in boxing. Getting on top is a different matter. In 1975, Rafael Lovera of Paraguay got knocked out...
Saturday was a great night for boxing fans with four big bouts on tap for aficionados, as Showtime and HBO did their part to both help...
One afternoon two summers ago, Kevin McBride’s handlers had invited the media over to the South Boston Boxing Club to bear witness to his final sparring...
Joe Calzaghe was always like the magician who made his beautiful blonde assistant suddenly disappear from behind the closed curtain. You knew it was a trick,...
Bob Duffy and Tony Mazzarella’s Ringside Promotions will host a night of boxing, as well as a tribute to Hall of Fame referee Arthur Mercante Sr....
It's the season for ghosts, apparitions, graveyard specters and headless horsemen, which makes it the perfect time to remember Slaughterhouse Henry Baker, boxing's headless heavyweight. The...
Evoking memories from the historic days of Madison Square Garden, the name Ali will once again be on the marquee at the Mecca of Boxing Saturday...
Sean “The Irish Express” Fitzgerald of Worcester, Massachusetts, was exhorting his fighter, undefeated middleweight Enrique Palau, to stay calm as Palau feverishly tried to stop durable...
