A heavyweight mess with no end in sight
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The late start wasn&#39;t all that bad. For those unfortunate enough to buy Don. in bed and didn&#39;t have to see it. Want to know what&#39;s wrong with the heavyweight division these days?
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IT WAS typical of the trend of the match that it should finish this way. There was a power threat lurking from early on in a contest that took an age to warm up.
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EXTREME bloody-mindedness can be seen as an asset in sport, but in boxing, after time, it can become dangerous. It has been four years since Evander Holyfield has been a serious contender, but
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After 12 years as the golden boy of American boxing, Oscar De La Hoya suddenly looks like a man who is haunted by the possibility of a career-ending defeat against Bernard Hopkins tonight.
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When Danny Williams suffered a form of crucifixion here in the small hours of yesterday morning - his pain was slow and relentless at the hands of the defending champion, Vitali Klitschko, and the outcome was never in doubt - it seemed that heavyweight
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Former champ Evander Holyfield suffers another loss in his bid to reclaim the undisputed heavyweight title as he gets dominated by journeyman Larry Donald.
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HANG ON A MINUTE, WASNâT this supposed to be a derby match, packed with grunts, grimaces, full of ugly, clumsy and petulant tackles and a general lack of oxygen available for the players to feed to their brains?
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When two boxers are in the ring, with only gloves, shorts, and fury between them, it&#39;s sometimes hard to remember that these are men with families, lives, and interests that are completely separate from what happens between the ropes.
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For heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, the preparations for Saturday&#39;s title fight have been overshadowed by political upheaval half a world away.
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As elections get tighter and more complicated, it's inevitable that one of them will be so thoroughly botched it'll have to be done over. It's time to start thinking about how. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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When Vitali Klitschko lost to Lennox Lewis on cuts last year, it was a fumbling attempt at passing the heavyweight torch. Klitschko was ahead on the judges&#39; cards when his face got
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Evander Holyfield just doesn&#39;t get it. He&#39;s beyond old for a fighter and seemingly hasn&#39;t been able to punch his way out of a paper bag in years.
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There was a time when knocking out Mike Tyson was boxing&#39;s equivalent to beating Ken Jennings at Final Jeopardy. It was the most Heruculean of labors and when it finally happened, it was an international event
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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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Can&#39;t we all just get along? I mean this is getting ridiculously way out of hand. For those who haven&#39;t watched any TV in the last five days, a fight broke out in an NBA
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ROSEMONT, Ill. -- When last they saw each other, WBC light heavyweight champion Tomasz Adamek and challenger Paul Briggs were both bleary-eyed and bloody. That night Adamek prevailed, but barely, each man extracting from the other a terrible price for agreeing to an angry business meeting in which leather and blood flew.
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THOSE of us who sat through a truly miserable evening at Hampden four-and-a-half years ago, which culminated in Mike Tysonâs controversial 38-second stoppage of a petrified Lou Savarese, could not have imagined we had seen a potential British world