It was short, sweet and to the point. Six-foot tall Celestino Caballero of Panama wasted no time in showing he is one of the best super...
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 5 – As the wise man Don King once advised, “Don’t believe anything anyone says in boxing.” The rumor was going round the...
Light heavyweight Elvir Muriqi (31-3, 19 KOs), aka the Kosovo Kid, will appear on promoter Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing card on October 11 at the Westchester...
Battle of undefeateds Miguel Cotto/Carlos Quintana on Dec. 2 Miguel Cotto and Carlos Quintana met the press this afternoon at Tavern on the Green in New...
Lightweight champ Acelino “Popo” Freitas calls it a day Brazil’s Acelino “Popo” Freitas, 38-1, a four-time world champion at lightweight and super featherweight, announced Tuesday night...
Sakio Bika hits back at mouthy Joe Calzaghe Australia’s Sakio Bika, 23-1, has heard all the doubting Thomases out there two Australian-based betting websites had Joe...
Mel Brooks had something to do with this. The evidence is thin, even nonexistent, that Don King's tour with Nikolai Valuev follows Brooks’ black and white...
Former WBO bantamweight champion Cruz Carbajal (26-13, 22 KO’s) chases armadillos to help keep fit when he’s back home in Veracruz, Mexico. “It’s great exercise, I...
LOS ANGELES – Maybe the heavyweights ain’t hopelessly stuck in Eastern Bloc high water after all. In the interest of fair play and a finer fistic...
If ever a fight deserved a rematch it was the WBC International strawweight title fight between the champion from the Philipines, Gabriel Puma, and the South...
Diego “Chico” Corrales defends his WBC lightweight world title on Saturday Oct. 7, against Cuba’s mean-spirited Joel Casamayor (33-3-1) but what gets lost in translation can’t...
By any standard 25-year-old Pawal Wolak is living the American Dream. Along with his parents, he immigrated to the United States from his native Poland when...
IBF flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan may look crude, unskilled and small to the average eye, but to opponents he’s a monster. Darchinyan, a 5-foot tall dynamo,...
You can argue about who’s the best professional female fighter around, but there’s no doubt on who’s the greatest amateur of all times: flyweight Simona Galassi....
Remember back when we were all getting used to the notion of living in the 21st Century? Remember when professional boxing was obsessing over the need...
Contender glitz versus Hall of Fame gold in ’07? Great Britain’s ITV reports that former pound-for-pound boxing monarch Roy Jones Jr. may fight former Contender star...
October 4, 2006 – Wat Ban Rai, Nakorn Ratchisima (Korat) – Somsak Sithchatchawal vs. Celestino Caballero Most fans and boxing journalists know very little about Somsak...
Everyone’s talking about the Big Russian these days. Even those indifferent to the fights want to see the WBA heavyweight king, the seven-foot-plus, 320-pound, undefeated behemoth...
Considering the fact that undefeated heavyweight Tony Grano of Hebron, Connecticut, didn’t begin boxing until he was 20 years old, he’s come a long way in...
Jorge Arce/Hawk Makepula? HBO, is that the best you could do? Seriously, with young, hungry fighters like Allan Green, Jason Litzau, Demetrius Hopkins and Chad Dawson...
