Heavyweight division is light on credible contenders
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About a ton of heavyweight flesh and not one ounce of credibility paraded across a ring at New York&#39;s Madison Square Garden in what looked like promoter Don King&#39;s parting shot in his ongoing feud with HBO.
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If Vitali Klitschko made one thing clear last night about the heavyweight division, it&#39;s how finished Mike Tyson really is. Anyone who thought otherwise
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As Fox&#39;s &quot;The Next Great Champ&quot; prepared to debut Tuesday, the boxing reality show and rival NBC series &quot;The Contender&quot; faced the prospect of having their
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LAS VEGAS Â· Bernard Hopkins&#39; future seems certain, full of big fights and bigger paydays. The future is less clear for Oscar De La Hoya.
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Much like Muhammad Ali before him, heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko isn&#39;t afraid to take a political stance. By Joe Cavaretta, AP.
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Max Schmeling wanted to be a heavyweight champion, not a symbol of Nazi supremacy.
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Former heavyweight champion John Ruiz recently won a battle with the World Boxing Association, whose title he once held, but he must be far more careful to ensure he also wins the upcoming fistic war.
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Andrew Golota has been in his fair share of wars in the ring, and whether he has it in him to endure another remains to be seen. Not that I expect his bout with John Ruiz to be one.
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OVER the last four decades, even the casual sports fan could usually name the accepted world heavyweight champion, beginning with boxing&#39;s golden era of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George
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ATHENS -- Unfortunately for the United States, the Olympic boxing tournament has gone just about as expected.
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NEW YORK - After preliminaries stuffed with enough lawsuits and trash-talk to make Don King proud, the first of TV's battling boxing series threw some real punches on Tuesday.    Fox's "The Next Great Champ" takes 12 amateur boxers and has them compete for a contract with Oscar De La Hoya's promotional company and a title fight within the World Boxing Organization...
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Antonio Tarver and Glen Johnson are set to meet in order to prove who is the best light heavyweight in the world. Both fighters are coming off the biggest wins of their careers against the same man.
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With tonight&#39;s light heavyweight fight between Antonio Tarver and Glen Johnson not bearing the championship sanction of any of boxing&#39;s jurisdictions, think of it as the Roy Jones Jr.
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Saturday night sees Vitali Klitschko defend his WBC world heavyweight title for the first time, against Britainâs Danny Williams.
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Bernard Hopkins&#39; fights are studies in boxing&#39;s subtleties. He deals in nuances. He doesn&#39;t have to be hitting an opponent to be setting him up, as he was Oscar De La Hoya here Saturday night.
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The sport of boxing is customarily clouded by controversial decisions and suspect circumstances. So why should the world middleweight title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena
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The United States Boxing team isn't fighting its opponents any more. It's fighting self-doubt.