Mike Tyson isn’t the only geezer in action this month. As if one grotesquerie wasn’t enough, Oliver McCall is slated to return to the ring on...
Life comes at you fast. It seems like only yesterday that I stood in a crowd of rubberneckers gawking at the artificial volcano that fronted the...
This is the concluding segment of our story in which we pay homage to boxing notables who left us in the past year. July July 12...
If referees boogied toward the ring to the sound of their own entrance music, as all reasonably relevant fighters do now, the logical guess is that...
He probably never should have lasted as long as he did. After famed boxing referee Mills Bee Lane III suffered a debilitating stroke in March 2002,...
There is a nationwide shortage of high school sports officials. It’s a problem that was brewing before the pandemic drove many longtime officials to leave the...
Boxing Judge John Stewart’s Career Scorecard Worthy of Commendation The announcement came without fanfare. There was no laudatory tribute in his local newspaper, no testimonial dinner,...
Boxing Odds and Ends: Poor Judging, an IBHOF Memorabilia Auction and More The Matchroom card at the Bank of America Center in Dallas this past Saturday...
On this day twenty-eight years ago, mighty-mites Michael Carbajal and Humberto “Chiquita” Gonzalez engaged in a fight for the ages at the Las Vegas Hilton. It...
Many years ago, the boxing booth was a staple at carnivals and fairs. The occupant ostensibly took on all comers, but more often than not his...