New York State’s boxing tsar breaks a leg on Sept. 7 O Commissioner, Commissioner! Wherefore art thou Commissioner? From Commissioner and Juliet (II, ii, 33) Shakespeare,...
As a baseball player, Dean Chance was a hard-throwing, right-handed starting pitcher with an unorthodox twisting windup. The Wooster, Ohio, native was drafted by the Los...
Nicknamed King Kong because of his size and strength, former heavyweight boxer Ezekiel Dlamini, like his fictional namesake, led a dramatic life and tragic end… one...
CHICAGO—Americans will get their chance to see undefeated 7-foot, 325-pound Nikolai “Giant Russian” Valuev, who has vowed to “conquer America” when he makes the second defense...
Budding junior welterweight boxing star Timothy Ray Bradley, a compact muscular fighter with speed, faces another tough opponent in veteran Martin Ramirez on Friday at the...
Maybe we are spoiled?– Hasim Rahman on American heavyweight boxers In the days before the WBC heavyweight championship fight between champion Hasim Rahman and contender Oleg...
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 16 – One of Evander Holyfield’s former trainers was calling and, no, he was not going to Dallas to see the old man...
Although WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler is the most popular fighter in his native Denmark, he now he wants to become one of the most...
You can’t compare guys like Sugar Ray Leonard to normal human beings. He probably has enough medals, trophies and championship belts to fill three wings in...
If you put the four heavyweight champions from the former Soviet Union in four fights on the same card, you still might have to paper the...
