Don King and Bob Arum, the two aging representatives of old-school boxing promotion ostensibly met with the media to discuss
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Forgive me if this strikes you as fake news or even a true form of divine providence, but 55 year-old, former four-time world...
“I want to ask you a question,” Don Turner said in his slight rasp, as he finished reminiscing about moving to New York in 1959 and...
Ronnie Shields never thought boxing would be his life. After a stalwart amateur career consisting of over 260 bouts and 33 professional fights, Shields called it...
(Published in the Philadelphia Daily News on Feb. 6, 2007) The former fighter, in his lilting Irish brogue, recites the lyrics to the 1969 Simon and...
They could have called it something else. They could have just said it was a more intensive, non-traditional type of training without attaching a fancy label...
He’s baaack. Well, that assertion is not really correct. Victor Conte, the disgraced founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) that was the focal point...
WEEKEND BOXING RECAPS — On an otherwise quiet weekend for boxing, there was a corker in South Philadelphia that would have undoubtedly commanded Fight of the...
CANASTOTA, N.Y. – He might have mentioned deceased mentors George Benton, Lou Duva and Dan Duva, as well as a few others who to one degree...
THE MOORER–COOPER BARNBURNER: They often are called “closet classics,” a term employed to describe thrilling, two-way action fights that, for whatever reason, somehow have managed to...