The New Alhambra, Russell Peltz’s no-frills boxing venue, has little in common with the original Alhambra, a palatial and expansive Moorish fortress which sits atop a...
A promising young boxer getting ready for an upcoming fight nearly lost consciousness on Monday in his working-class neighborhood due to the high temperatures pummeling the...
He’d been drilled and had the tweety birds dancing over his head, compliments of Oliver McCall, in his fifth fight, in 1996. Oleg Maskaev could have...
During my trips to New York, Florida and Las Vegas, I noticed that old-time Italian champions are still remembered by the boxing community. I’m not only...
Episode four of season two of “The Contender” was televised on ESPN on Tuesday, August 1. It introduced audiences to Walter “Two Guns” Wright of Seattle,...
John Duddy gives the words hot prospect new meaning Unlike so many other sports, in boxing the fighter is very much on his own. Notwithstanding the...
Middleweight sensation keeps upping the ante The Irish, both here in the States and overseas, love John Duddy, and for good reason. He’s young, he’s smart,...
It had the feel of one of those homecomings cooked up by Hollywood when Theodore Anton returned to the city where everybody remembered him by the...
Unlike most fighters who run through boxing regimens almost robotically, Sergio Mora, “The Latin Snake,” does things differently. From his awkward fighting style to his college...
If the state of boxing can be measured by the number of quality bouts taking place each week, the sweet science is absolutely bursting with promise...
LAS VEGAS (July 31, 2006) – Crafty veteran Stevie “Little But Bad” Johnston has decided to return to his natural fighting weight of 135 pounds, back...
Admit this for me. You 1) thought Prince Badi was going to upset Roy Jones Jr. and send him into retirement and 2) you would have...
I’m not going to jump up and down claiming Cassius Baloyi, who was definitely off form, was robbed on Saturday night because he wasn’t, but he...
Roy Jones Jr. is back from the dead for now Former pound-for-pound king Roy Jones Jr. returned from the dead Saturday night to easily decision Prince...
Nostradamus would have a gimme with James Toney. It’s a medical problem: Knee-Jerk Zidane (a less pernicious strain of Duran-Tourette…sadly, incurable). But unlike ZZ, James only...
California judges favored Joshua Clottey in a welterweight showdown with Richard Gutierrez and Vivian Harris used his long reach to plow through a last-minute replacement at...
What made Roy Jones Jr. great in a boxing ring was his ability to instantaneously make happen what ever was required. Yes, the word ‘instantaneously’ has...
Undefeated middleweight contender Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik of Youngstown, Ohio, punched his way into fistic prominence when he became the first man to stop former WBO...
BOISE, Idaho (July 29, 2006) – Some boxing insiders believe Prince Badi “The Boxing Prince” Ajamu will dethrone the contemporary king of boxing, five-time world champion...
The saddest words of tongue and P.C., “He ain’t what he used to be.” LAS VEGAS, July 28 – They can’t watch. They were too close...
