It has been said that it’s difficult, almost impossible even, to refute something you see with your own eyes. But the validity of the eye test...
Olympic Boxing is Mired in Muck, So Why Not Turn It Over to a Gymnastics Guy? In 1849, French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote plus ca...
Earlier this month, 365 boxers from 78 countries gathered in Ekaterinburg, Russia for the 2019 AIBA men’s world championships. Prior to 2016, this annual event was...
In 2012, the United States Treasury Department identified a group called “The Brothers’ Circle” alongside the infamous Japanese Yakuza as being a “significant Transnational Criminal Organization”...
Drastic wrongdoing would seem to require drastic action to correct. At least that was the position of the NCAA, whose leadership took such action following the...
Tokyo. Yesterday (Jan. 3) International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said this drastic action would be taken if AIBA, amateur boxing’s governing body
The Gypsy Prince is Coming to Town — There is always room for another tough middleweight who can box and punch, and this weekend gave us...
Sometimes that perennial fixer-upper needs to have a wrecking ball taken to it to make way for a new and improved structure.
In this new section of The Sweet Science, we step back and take a critical look at the fights that took place on the previous weekend