Two things became obvious in the second round. The first was that Tommy Rainone was going to win this fight. The second was, that he’d do...
Boxing films are like any other movie genre. There is a little bit of everything. We have inspirational sports movies (“Rocky”), satires (“The Great White Hype”),...
The fistic festivities at the Festhallelate on that long ago Christmas Dayended after the punch was servedby Sugar Ray. On the night of Dec. 25, 1950,...
This is the year we finally truly understood that the United States isn’t the be-all, end-all in boxing, especially in the heavyweight division. Sure, we conceded...
“We struggle. Always. We are doing the best that we can. And we dream of transcendence.” – Davis Miller “We admire them, we envy them, for...
Former journeyman heavyweight Leroy Caldwell, who fought out of Las Vegas throughout the seventies and early eighties, was in New York in early December. Yvonne Caples,...
Sometimes we can delve too deeply interpolating and distorting essence or trace so close to the contours of design we merely copy shadows. Getting a clear...
TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION—Being the favorite didn’t keep a strong trio of marquee fighters from feeling heavy heat last Friday, December 8, as Desert Diamond Casino closed...
It makes one wonder what drives a fighter like Diego “The Nightmare” Sanchez. He fights with the intensity of a tsunami inside the octagon where he...
He is the second most well known person from Kazakhstan in the minds of United States citizens, and Oleg Maskaev is quite a bit more beloved...
