NEW YORK (July 13, 2006) – Shannon Briggs, who is slated to fight Wladimir Klitschko for the IBF heavyweight crown at the Garden, will not compete...
Former 3-time world champion Dingaan “The Rose of Soweto” Thobela will be making a comeback to the ring in September. A number of fight options are...
LAS VEGAS, July 13 – I blew off the Mosley-Vargas press conference yesterday and not simply because it interfered with my Bastille Day preparations. Sugar Shane...
ESPN’s Teddy Atlas has book readings/signings next week Fight fans in and around New York who read his autobiography “Atlas: A Son’s Journey from the Streets...
Maybe if the eye hadn’t puffed up like a beach ball. Maybe if Fernando Vargas had had a little more time. Maybe if the fight had...
PROVIDENCE, RI (July 12, 2006) – NABA and USNBC cruiserweight champion Matt “Too Smooth” Godfrey (12-0, 7 KOs) has angrily responded to an erroneous report on...
BOISE, Idaho (July 12, 2006) – North American Boxing Organization (NABO) light heavyweight champion Prince Badi “The Boxing Prince” Ajamu, fighting out of Vero Beach under...
Heading into the summer, former champion “Cool” Vince Phillips had sugarplum dreams of a return to the mountaintop. After getting by Jesse Feliciano by majority decision...
This is his last tango at 154 pounds, his goodbye tour at super-welterweight. And he‘s not going to miss it, thank you. Not for a second....
If the fight is even remotely as entertaining and exciting as the press conference, fans are in for The Fight of the Year Saturday, Sept. 2,...
Oxnard’s prideful Fernando Vargas meets Sugar Shane Mosley as Mexican-American battles African-American for junior middleweight bragging rights at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las...
His birth name was Joseph Jaworski, but by the time he started fighting for a living in the early 1920s he changed it to Joe Jawson....
BLOOMFIELD, NJ (July 11, 2006) – Undefeated featherweight contender Jason Litzau can finally focus on his July 14 opponent—hopefully. Litzau is expected to headline the ESPN2’s...
Amateur boxing doesn’t sell like its professional counterpart. As a matter of fact, there are no amateur champions who draw big crowds, get hired to star...
We boxing fans despair: What's to become of boxing? It has no future in a world of extreme sports. If the looks on the faces of...
The term “Road Warrior” is an often overused cliché in boxing, but it seems to suit super featherweight Belinda “Brown Sugar” Laracuente of the Bronx, New...
“Don’t judge me on the Barrera fight, Mzonke is still alive.” This was the plea of former WBC junior lightweight world title contender Mzonke Fana on...
What’s an Executioner to do? Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins, fresh off his odds-bashing win over former light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver less than a month ago,...
Floyd Mayweather Jr. reigns supreme as the acknowledged best fighter in the world of professional boxing. But during the last seven months a number of contests...
LAS VEGAS – Tito Ortiz elbowed his way to a quick victory over nemesis Ken Shamrock in a light heavyweight grudge match and Tim Sylvia held...
