Word has come down that Eusebio Pedroza died early this morning at his home in Panama. Pedroza would have turned 63 tomorrow, March 2. Several weeks...
A boxer’s hands are the tools of his trade. Like all tools, they are subject to chipping and breaking from repeated usage. But whereas a carpenter...
“Get him a straitjacket!” That’s how all this craziness started. In 2002, boxing writer Mark ‘Scoop’ Malinowski stood at the back of a Mike Tyson press...
George Foreman was 14-0, all of his victories by knockout, 22½ months into the comeback he had launched to much derision after a 10-year retirement, when...
Heroes put others first. Heroes sacrifice—sometimes with their lives. NFL player Pat Tillman was not a boxer but he was a legitimate hero having been killed...
LAS VEGAS-After a slow start the Manny Pacquiao train picked up steam and might have jump started the flooded welterweight division while retaining the WBA world...
Every time it rains in L.A. I think about the Doors song “Riders in the Storm.” On Sunday a brief window of dryness blanketed as I...
The father, now 79, has a memory being wiped slowly clean by the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease, so perhaps he remains oblivious to the horrific damage...
The boxing schedule is so full it’s overlapping and promoters are battling for space. Suddenly Sundays have become an open day for pugilists and will become...
Sometimes it is the fighters’ real or perceived flaws, as much as their strengths, that make for a compelling if not necessarily great fight. Such would...