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Round Up: Tarver, Ouma, Diacunu, Garcia

ANTONIO TARVER RESPONDS TO CALZAGHE’S WIN OVER HOPKINS AND GOES ON RECORD AS THE ONLY TRUE LIGHT HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION AND THE REAL LEGEND KILLER (Tampa, Florida – Monday, April…
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Operation Clean Up Classic: Booking Agents

Charles Jay OPERATION CLEANUP - CLASSIC AGENTS AREN'T 007, BUT THEY'RE A SECRET NONETHELESS The next time you watch one of those ESPN fight cards, keep in mind that an…
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Why Boxing Will Never Die

By Frank Maloney In England a couple of weekends ago we had two fight cards which I believe will serve to demonstrate why the sport of boxing will never go…
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When Mike Tyson Ruled The World

by Aaron Tallent Thesweetscience.com Mike Tyson is making a comeback . . . again. Last Tuesday he announced that he would fight Kevin McBride at the MCI Center in Washington,…
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Ali’s Camp Needs Recognition

By LEROY BOYER [This column is reprinted by permission from the Republican & Herald newspaper located in Pottsville, PA.] Mention Muhammad Ali's name in Schuylkill County, and you get a…
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Mike Tyson: The Death Of A Killing Machine

By Mark Workman June 18, 2005 When Mike Tyson stepped confidently into the ring at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on February 11, 1990 the Japanese public witnessed the…
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Mike Tyson: An Opposing View

By Scott Wilkerson Boxing was the first, and remains, the only true sport. This histortical primacy imputes to every boxer both the responsibilities of a gallant tradition and the encumbrences…
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The End of An Era for New York Boxing

by Mitch Abramson TheSweetScience.com When Sunnyside Gardens finally closed its doors in the mid '70s, a neighborhood in New York City didn't just lose a boxing arena, it laid to…
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A Decade Later. The Gerald McClellan Tragedy.

by Richard T. Slone February 25th will mark a decade. The tenth year that former middleweight champion Gerald McClellan has struggled with life since his fight with Nigel Benn left…
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Pretty Fly, Calzaghe out points Hopkins

By: Phil Santos Overhandright.com Joe Calzaghe survived a first round knockdown and boxed his way to a split decision win over Bernard Hopkins to become the Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight…
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When Does a Fighter Retire?

By Tom Donelson When does or should a boxer decide to say, "adios?" As for athletes in other sports, it depends upon the fighter. Take the case of Billy Soose.…
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Judging a Fight: Some Ideas

By Tom Donelson Judging a fight is very subjective. The one area in which most boxing pundits and judges appear to agree is the effect of a knockdown upon scoring.…
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The Poetic Sublimity of Being Cornered

By Scott Wilkerson In boxing, as in life, our best resource of strength during a crisis is, often, merely knowing that someone is in our corner. Tom Donelson's masterful and…