Boxing is suffering from image and fan problems. Despite recent Hollywood blockbusters about the sport, boxing doesn't grip sports fans the way it once did. And today, the business of boxing is our ...
It has been four years since former middleweight contender Bill Rollins stepped into a boxing ring. Like most retired fighters, Rollins, a Portsmouth native and Barrington resident, still gets the ...
Shellie Lequire, a former boxing promoter and lifelong fan of boxing, celebrated his 75th birthday on June 9, 2005. It was the opening day of the International Boxing Hall of Fame’s sixteenth annual ...
NEW YORK – Highlights from the most compelling and unforgettable fights of a spectacular year of televising world-class prizefights will be shown when SHOWTIME proudly presents “SHOWTIME BOXING: Best ...
Dan Vassar sat by himself on the stage, silently watching young boxers climb in and out of the ring. If the longtime coach of the Spokane Eagles Boxing Club felt nostalgic, he kept it hidden. The fact ...
The usual arguments against the “sweet science” cut many ways. After the tragic September death of U.S. boxer Levander Johnson from brain injuries suffered in a lightweight title fight, an editorial ...
Thirty years ago today, two former heavyweight champions, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, fought for the third and final time. All three fights occurred after Ali had been stripped of his heavyweight ...
A federal judge sentenced a boxing promoter Tuesday to 37 months in prison for his role in a fight-fixing scheme that included an August 2000 bout at the Paris hotel-casino. Promoter Robert Mitchell, ...
An Ohio State graduate will advance the search for a cure for cancer tonight into unconventional terrority – the boxing ring. Jim Chlovechok, 47, a doctor of sports medicine, will fight in a boxing ...
HOLYOKE – As the crowd began to pour out of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holyoke following a wrestling event, many of the patrons had one question on their minds. “A lot of people said they ...