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...
TEMECULA, Calif. – Puerto Rico’s Fres Oquendo surprised Javier Mora (20-3-1, 18 KOs) with a big right hand in the first round and never looked back...
Daniel Ponce De Leon’s technique is hard to describe. Some describe the form as one of a prehistoric bug who uses his arms as feelers and...
Expect fistic bombs to explode early when Georgia’s Paul Williams and Argentina’s Walter Matthysse meet for a welterweight round-robin tournament on Saturday night at the Home...
When Ted Jamieson died on September 18, 1969, his obituary in The Milwaukee Journal noted that he had been U.S. amateur light heavyweight champion, had fought...
3 AM: She dumped me and walked out a couple of years ago. I never understood why. Endless pleading, well-planned searching, and desperate scheming couldn’t bring...
