Word has arrived that former WBA junior welterweight champion Johnny “Bump City” Bumphus died yesterday, Feb. 3, at a hospital in his hometown of Tacoma, Washington...
Today (Wednesday, Oct. 23) marks the 55th anniversary of the aborted fight at the Las Vegas Convention Center between Joey Giardello and challenger Rubin “Hurricane” Carter...
Good Night, Sweet Pea Bishop James E. Jones Jr.’s booming baritone was rising up through the rafters at the Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia. He was...
The Battle of Wits Between Roach and Birmingham May Decide PacMan vs. Thurman It is the boxers who are the center of attention, of course, and...
“Smokin’” Bert Cooper, the Joe Frazier lookalike who patterned his own boxing style after that of his idol, mentor and former manager, was 53 when he...
“Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse” is a 1950s mantra often, and wrongly, attributed to actor James Dean, star of Rebel Without a...
The most daring ideas of genuine innovators are almost never met with early and widespread acceptance. People might still be traveling by horse-drawn conveyances were it...
If Jaron “Boots” Ennis actually is the best young fighter to come out of Philadelphia since Meldrick Taylor, who was a 17-year-old gold medalist at the...
Don King and Bob Arum, the two aging representatives of old-school boxing promotion ostensibly met with the media to discuss
If you cover boxing long enough, you’re apt to see a lot of strange stuff, and I have. A riot following a foul-filled disqualification where tensions...