When Ray Torres was chosen by HBO to serve as the Spanish translator for their very first Boxing After Dark (BAD) telecast in February 1996, he...
Let me tell it like it is! For as long as I or anyone else can remember, editors and chiefs have been chasing me around the...
Milan is famous mainly as a shopping town. While it’s true that Milan offers some of the best shops in the world, it’s also true that...
Showtime results from Montbleu Resort Casino & Spa Rafael Marquez retained his IBF/IBO bantamweight titles Saturday night by scoring a ninth-round TKO over South Africa’s Silence...
Not everyone left Madison Square Garden happy on Saturday night. A lot of fans left feeling low. The promoter Lou DiBella left in a bad mood,...
Psycho Killer/Qu’est-ce que c’est From the He went to church every Sunday department comes word via Phoenix, Arizona, that ringside photographer Dale Hausner, 33, whose work...
At a press conference at Gallagher’s Steak House in Manhattan, Vernon Forrest hid behind broad sun glasses, Ike Quartey was serenaded by his supporters who chanted...
It is essentially a basement. But for the last 38 years, it has been an essential part of boxing. It has been renamed, renovated and ridiculed....
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 4 – You can connect the dots, but that doesn’t mean they go anywhere….Tomorrow’s latest edition of dueling dates has four nice fights,...
Sycuan gamble pays off big President of Sycuan Ringside Promotions Glenn Quiroga is a sports enthusiast who follows San Diego athletics with a passion. Whether it’s...
Brotherly love, you can’t beat it. Since childhood the loving Marquez brothers, Rafael and Juan Manuel of Mexico City, have a bond that persists through their...
Pac Man to hang em up in 07 The Philippines ultimate boxing hero Manny Pacquiao plans on retiring from boxing in 2007, according to the Manila...
WBO heavyweight champion wants to unify titles WBO heavyweight champion Sergei “The White Wolf” Liakhovich has issued a public challenge to the heavyweight champs of the...
Live Saturday night on HBO from the Theater at Madison Square Garden, former champions Vernon Forrest and Ike Quartey square off in an eliminator to see...
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...
