“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...
BRIGGS VS OQUENDO — In 1989, at age 40, George Foreman appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. The accompanying caption read “A Blast From The...
THE RICKY WOMACK STORY — Thomas Boswell, the respected sports columnist of the Washington Post, once predicted that the 1984 U.S. Olympic boxing team showed promise...