When Nic Durandt moved to Johannesburg, South Africa, from his native England at the age of 11 or 12, he began boxing for fitness at the...
In the good old summertime, back when boxing rivaled baseball as the most popular sport in the nation, major heavyweight fights took place in the New...
The IBO super featherweight title as well as the vacant IBF super flyweight title was up for grabs last night on ESPN’s “Wednesday Night Fights” as...
NEW YORK (May 29, 2006) – Eric Harding scared? Forget it. It will not happen. “I've been shot twice and stabbed three times,’’ Harding, 33, of...
Jim Rock will look to make it a hat trick of Irish titles at the National Stadium on Saturday night when he contests the vacant middleweight...
Often the pressures of public expectation and promises of things to come if successful can weigh heavily on a boxer’s mind when he enters the ring....
Last May 13, WBC super middleweight champion Markus Beyer defended his title against Sakio Bika in Zwickau (Germany). The fight was highly anticipated, the 4,000 tickets...
Prizefighters Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo are about to enter a realm in boxing reserved for a select few when they meet on Saturday, June...
Mia St. John can sell boxing. She can – and does – sell just about anything. For the 38-year-old former women’s world featherweight champion, she’s more...
Heavyweight Shannon Briggs has accumulated 41 knockouts and 47 wins to go with just 4 losses and a draw in his 14-year professional fight career. At...
Each time I go to a show, no matter where it is, I know it’s a hit or miss affair. Nothing is ever set in stone....
Rarely have firsthand accounts of the horrors of the Holocaust been more vividly described than they are in a compelling new book called “Harry Haft: Survivor...
With weeks to go and Roberto Duran having relocated his exotic training camps to whatever fight venue he was to defend his legendary championship prestige at,...
They didn’t actually slip Diego Corrales a Mickey in his second fight with Jose Luis Castillo, but there was a nasty aftertaste. And Corrales did struggle...
“Are you Lou’s son?” mumbled the old flat-nosed pug. The young middleweight, annoyed, looks up from bandaging his hands. “Nope.” The old pug shuffles over to...
CARSON, Calif. – An overly technical bantamweight world title bout angered the fans with its deliberate tact, but a welterweight world title elimination match between undefeated...
While growing up in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, which has a population of 25,000, NABF featherweight champion Jeri “Fists of Fury” Sitzes was never afraid to dream...
Walk around with something valuable — look like a mark; they’ll come outta the woodwork to take it from you. That’s Daniel Ponce De Leon, WBO...
Roy Jones Jr. was once a pound-for-pound ruler who could dictate fights on his terms. But that was then and this is now. “Now” is a...
NEWARK, NJ (May 26, 2006) – Last night, at the twentieth anniversary of the 34th precinct Police Athletic League (PAL) youth basketball league championship game and...
