Norm Frauenheim
Look around: There aren’t many choices, but DiBella cheers a possible...
The Super Six represents a blueprint, a plan instead of another accident on a haphazard road littered with the same old mishaps and...
Mike Jones is in the right role and in step for...
It is the indispensable medium. Bob Arum and Oscar De La Hoya need television as much as Bill O’Reilly needs to shout into the...
From fame to infamy, there’s no telling what Mike Tyson will...
The International Boxing Hall of Fame ballot is a formality. Mike Tyson is a lock for induction. Fact is, Tyson is virtually in the...
Trust in Oscar: He’s No Monopolist
Oscar De La Hoya is shortsighted, misguided or just naive, but – please – he isn’t an enemy of the free-market system in comments...
Thanks, November, for chance at a comeback
The last month has been about Floyd Mayweather Jr,’s arrest and racist rant, Ricky Hatton’s trip to rehab after looking like a drug cartel’s...
Mayweather smiles, but felony charges are no joke
The self-proclaimed face of boxing was captured last week in a booking photo. Floyd Mayweather Jr. looks as if he has a chance to...
A most offensive combo: Mayweather and Haye
Boxing and decorum have always been strangers, but even by standards of a sport without one, the last seven days have been staggering.
Within...
Klitschko fights for future shot at an enduring spot
If all the great heavyweights aren’t NFL linebackers these days, they’re fighting in Germany.
That means there aren’t many in the dinosaur...
Toney-Couture should be among The Expendables
A couple of pretty good actors are scheduled for a fight that will match them Saturday night in Boston in a mixed mess ...
Gesta puts in some overtime for 7th-round stoppage
TUCSON – No Mercy is the nickname, the message and the plan. But it would have to wait. Time was more important than a...
California denial is first step in Margarito’s Texas two-step
It was a show trial. Antonio Margarito had to show up in a procedural step that fulfilled, if not satisfied, bureaucratic protocol. The...
King is back, but hurdles, like the hair, are still there
He’s back, the good, the bad and the hair-do.
If there’s any doubt that Don King has been missed, just listen to...
Alexander is a good story trying to be great
Devon Alexander is the irresistible story that explains the battered game’s inexhaustible resiliency.
As reports of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather talks continue to sound like...
Marquez-Diaz deliver some reality and a crowd instead of talk, just...
LAS VEGAS – In the beginning, the arena looked like a vacant warehouse. The Mandalay Bay Events Center felt empty. It didn’t stay that...
Mendy’s only victory was a trip to the hospital
LAS VEGAS – A trip to the hospital is no victory.
But that’s about all Jean Paul Mendy won in a scary moment Saturday night...
Mosley having fun and back at work
LAS VEGAS – Shane Mosley likes to play basketball when he isn’t pounding a heavy bag. He did a little bit of both a...
Jacobs is fighting for his late grandmother
LAS VEGAS – Long before management and marketing promoted him as The Golden Child, his grandmother called him Baby Maniac.
Cordelia Jacobs...
De La Hoya sees “racism” in Arizona law
LAS VEGAS – Oscar De La Hoya said Wednesday that the Arizona immigration law is racist if it is allowed to stand as it...
The Rematch is real relief from talk and only talk
The Juan Manuel Marquez-Juan Diaz sequel to the 2009 Fight of the Year on July 31 at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay has a simple...
Deadline passes with no word from Mayweather
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said early Saturday that he had not heard from Floyd Mayweather, Jr., by a midnight deadline about whether he...
Tick-talk-tick-talk, Mayweather on his own clock
There is Greenwich Mean Time and Daylight Savings and maybe even “Money” Time, but there is nothing standard about the digital countdown Top...
Margarito’s fate is in his hands
By now, Antonio Margarito knows the questions like he knows an old sparring partner. He has heard them from the California State...
Mayweather-Pacquiao: Talks are back at a familiar crossroads
A reported agreement on terms for Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. should be reason for optimism. Maybe, the biggest fight in years will finally happen....
Chavez Jr. is fighting for a grown-up identity against Duddy
No telling who was first to say that fathers fight so their sons don’t have to. But I’m guessing it was a mom, who...
Doubters arm Ward with critical punch
It was 2004 in Athens. The city’s ancient temples and columns seemed to be a symbol of what had happened to American boxing...
Nevada, USADA meeting is first step in a renewal of talks...
The silence isn’t exactly deafening. But it is encouraging. Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer isn’t saying anything at all. Bob Arum is...
Steward is back in a corner that fits him better than...
Emanuel Steward in a corner is a little bit like seeing an old soldier back in uniform. It fits. Amid the clutter and craziness...
Immigration flap forces Top Rank to move Benavidez’ homecoming out of...
Concern from a sponsor and Mexican television network about controversy over Arizona’s immigration law is forcing Top Rank to move a July 17 card...
Marquez ends the fourth within three
LOS ANGELES – In the end, a fourth time meant most of the punches and all of the momentum were there for Rafael...
For Vazquez-Marquez, history is about what they do instead of say
He sat at a table a year ago in a New York restaurant, dressed in a conservative suit and unknown to most in a...
