In the ring his calling card was a left hook potent enough to almost get him fired from the training camp of heavyweight title challenger Roy...
It was fitting that the main event of the card titled “Salute to Heroes 2” turned into a war since the fight took place at the...
NEW YORK – Things weren’t looking good for the home team Friday night after John Duddy found himself freely bleeding from a cut below his left...
OXNARD, CALIF. – Lightweight contender Rolando Reyes (17-12-3) showed the hometown crowd why he’s ranked by systematically destroying Mexico’s Julian Rodriguez in six rounds on Friday....
Paul Spadafora working off two years of ring rust Former IBF lightweight champion Paul Spadafora has returned to the gym after a two-year layoff. Known as...
Aussie boxing kangaroos a big hit in Shanghai For the fourth year in a row, the Animal Olympics were held at Shanghai’s Wild Animal Park in...
Kevin Kelley decisions Famoso Hernandez in Texas Ageless Kevin Kelley (59-7-2, 39 KOs) won a unanimous decision over LA-born Carlos “Famoso” Hernandez (42-7-1, 24 KOs) at...
There’s the sound of contempt on the other end of the phone. Or is it chaos mixed with a strong dose of bedlam? Maybe it’s just...
Peter “The Pride of Providence” Manfredo, Jr. (25-3, 11 KOs), one of the stars of the first season of The Contender, plans on silencing his Little...
September 25, 2006, The Mall Bang Kae, Bangkok, Thailand: Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo (16-0-0, 7 KO’s) used a steady boxing attack and his superior hand speed to outpoint...
We know, basically, what we have in John Duddy. White kid, likes to bang, can bang, good chin. And what we don’t know, if he can...
Every time Carlos “Famoso” Hernandez jumps in the ring he carries an entire country on his back. It’s an enormous burden. Hernandez faces Brooklyn’s Kevin Kelley...
The birthplace of the modern prize ring may have been England, but fighting is a birthright of the Irish and part of their patrimony. Boxing has...
Boxing’s bad boy Mike Tyson hits the road You know what a geek is? You throw a geek a raw chicken and he’ll eat it, feathers...
Undefeated heavyweight prospect Jason “Big Six” Estrada of Providence, Rhode Island, ran his record to 7-0 (1 KO, with one no contest) with a one-sided unanimous...
When boxing fans fixate over the possibility of Bernard Hopkins trying his hand at a heavyweight brass ring or Mike Tyson’s next boogieman ring return or...
Ever wonder who made up all the new boxing rules? Ever wonder what group of mad scientists, network executives, accountants, do-gooders and curious onlookers sat down...
I hope that this will always be my enduring image of Evander Holyfield. It is June of 1997 and Mike Tyson has twice bitten Holyfield’s ears....
The time has come. The reality is real for Steve Forbes and Grady Brewer, the reality show is done. It sounds like the Staples Center is...
LOS ANGELES – Grady Brewer upset former world champion Stevie Forbes in the Contender finale at Staples Center on Tuesday. The main event for the second...
