Scales are banned in the Shannon Briggs household. Go ahead, go into his home, bring a tracking bloodhound if you want. You won't find a scale...
CHICAGO – Fabian Mascarenas had the right idea for me when I arrived at the restaurant Nuevo Leon to see Johnny Tapia on the city’s south...
The hand’s quicker than the eye. It’s all about distraction. Bernard Hopkins should be in the Three-Card-Monty Hall of Fame. Had he planned a heist as...
Feds drop inquiry of Top Rank honcho The 2½ year probe into the business dealings of Top Rank and its CEO Bob Arum is at end...
Feds drops inquiry of Top Rank honcho The 2½ year probe into the business dealings of Top Rank and its CEO Bob Arum is at end...
Spinks trains at Don King’s facility in Orwell Former welterweight champion Cory Spinks, in preparation for Saturday’s IBF junior middleweight title fight against Roman Made in...
So where did I go wrong? On July 1, Showtime’s ShoBox series will offer up a fight card that features a battalion of second-generation pugs. James...
Bernard Hopkins has secured his place in boxing history. He has done what the great Sugar Ray Robinson failed to do. The former middleweight champion has...
Ever wonder what it would be like if two boxers laced up and instead of fighting in a normal arena, they got busy in a sauna?...
Former pound-for-pound king goes Oedipal in Memphis Last weekend in Memphis, Tenn., former pound-for-pound king Roy Jones Jr. spoke with the boxing press and, without a...
Not long ago Americans dominated the world of heavyweights, but a lot has changed in boxing and many other sports since the Iron Curtain was shredded...
Although he is only 38-years-old, Ivaylo Gotzev has been on the fistic scene for 14 years. As a former amateur boxer in his native Bulgaria, he...
Undefeated welterweights Joel Julio and Carlos Quintana invade Las Vegas on Saturday for a chance to capture the boxing fans’ interest the same way two other...
Grab a #2 pencil! It’s back to school! Stop dwelling on your dismal high school grades! Redeem yourself! Take this simple quiz! Hey, be quiet, sit...
No one expects fights to be held on river barges as sometimes happened in John L. Sullivan’s day. A little imagination, however, in selecting venues would...
LAS VEGAS, June 22 – Oscar de la Hoya did not pull the plug on boxing. Instead, he offered Floyd Mayweather Jr. enough extension cord to...
NEW YORK (June 19, 2006) – After Gamaliel Diaz shocked the boxing establishment by winning a thrilling, hard-fought, 12-round split decision over then-World Boxing Council (WBC)...
BROOKLYN (June 21, 2006) – Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi (21-1, 5 KOs) had successful surgery last Saturday to repair his fractured right cheekbone, suffered June...
You can’t blame WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (33-4, 24 KO’s) for wanting to make as much money as possible in a sport where the windows...
In 2003, there was an effort by a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians to come up with a peace accord on their own, outside of...
