I made a promise to a friend, and I kept it since that is what friends do when they give their word. But in this instance...
PART ONE OF A TWO-PART SERIES — On June 6, 1948, the storied Marigold Gardens in Chicago was filled with cigar smoke, boxing being a bastion...
When I went through my voluminous files for a compilation of some of the better quotes collected from my many years on the boxing beat, I...
Coulda, shoulda, woulda. It is the stuff dream fights are made of. What would have happened had Jack Dempsey fought Rocky Marciano, prime on prime
For all the undeniably positive things that have happened in boxing in 2017, one of the best years for the sport in recent memory, there also...
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...
If you thought Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis were outnumbered at the Alamo, try to imagine how Pernell Whitaker and his small band of...
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...
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...