Eddie Hearn, who heads up the boxing division of the U.K. sports promotion conglomerate Matchroom, the firm founded by his Hall of Fame father, has become...
23 years ago today, on Dec. 5, 1998, Johnny Tapia challenged WBA bantamweight champion Nana Yaw Konadu of Ghana at the brand-new Atlantic City Convention Hall....
PART TWO OF A TWO-PART STORY — The year 1988 was a fateful year in the life of Mike Tyson. On Feb. 7, Mike married Robin...
In a Knockout of the Year candidate, rising light heavyweight contender Joshua Buatsi (14-0, 12 KOs) leveled Daniel Blenda Dos Santos, an unheralded Frenchman, in the...
COLOGNE – There are many questions to be answered regarding Mahmoud Charr’s scheduled fight against Christopher Lovejoy this Saturday night at a training facility along the...
Music was the lifeblood of the youth culture when I was young. I came of age during the “Golden Age of Rock and Roll” and expanded...
“More than anyone else,” Kenneth Bridgham writes, “John Morrissey personified the links between sports, gambling, high finance, politics, and crime in nineteenth-century America.” That’s the theme...
The 1980s brought two new sanctioning bodies into boxing. The IBF, founded in 1983, and the WBO (1988) came along to challenge the established organizations. More...
Don King promoted a fight card on January 29 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. But the more significant story is what happened...
Pete Hamill was one of my heroes. It pains me to write that the legendary journalist died today, Aug. 5, at age 85. Hamill grew up...