Sergio Martinez is the best boxer in the world with the fewest outside-the-ring problems swirling around him. And if a deal in the works for him to fi...
Ex Current anchor Keith Olbermann on Monday, when he was still with Current, saluted his first boss, Bert Sugar, who died last Sunday. The tempestuous...
I really want to watch a good boxing movie.. But before you say Raging Bull or Rocky, that's not what I meant. Those are great movies but not really about boxing itself (Just look at the actual boxing scenes) Rocky is a rags to riches story and Raging Bull is a character study on Lamotta's violent...
I was wondering what you guys think about female boxing?
got me thinking because I'm just watching card held here in Finland
where the main event is for female super featherweight European title.
the Finnish girl
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Y'all have to remember the kid is only 21 fooken years old! He is very young and has a lot of fight left. Ask
Yourself this who was floyd fighting at 21? Who was PAC fighting at 21? Name one 21 year old fighter who wad elite at that age? There arent manny. I'm not too fond of the kid but I'm smart...
People often bring up the downsides of boxing, focusing on the savagery they see in the ring and the unfortunate toll not infrequently seen decades la...
I am sorry that I haven’t posted over the past several days. I’m back now, but I will admit that I have been taking heavy doses of Linsanity, March Madness and Novakaine and haven’t been as hyped to post on my beloved sweet science. So what can you expect from me during a basketball week [...]
Maybe it shouldn't have surprised him that the judges in Puerto Rico disagreed, but Mexico's Orlando Salido thought he had won all but one round -- th...
In the summer of 1979, Bert Sugar hired Randy Gordon, whom he called "a clean-cut little guy," to be his right-hand man at The Ring magazine, which w...
Bert Sugar used to crack that he gave wife Suzanne "the best 10 minutes of her life." The wisecracking author-editor-raconteur joined her on the rolle...
On Saturday, Kimbo Slice participated in his fourth professional boxing match. The fight took place in Springfield, Mo., where one of the world's most...
Tomasz Adamek is undersized as far as heavyweights go, but hey, this is where the money is. He met another undersized fighter, Nagy Aguilera, at the A...
He was quick with a joke and to light his own smoke, an omnipresent stogie, was Bert Sugar. And he was the man to go to when you wanted some historica...
New England was in da house in Brooklyn, N.Y., with former pugs John Ruiz, the ex-heavyweight champ from Methuen, Mass., and "Dangerous" Dana Rosenbla...
As the snow melts up north and the thermometer continues to rise down south, the spring boxing schedule heats up, starting next month. On Cinco de Mayo (May 5), Floyd Mayweather and Miguel Cotto face off in a super middleweight superbout. On May 19, Amir Khan tries to regain his junior welterweight belt against Lamont [...]
Can Orlando Salido (37-11-2, 25 KO’s) return to the scene of the crime (Puerto Rico) and defeat Juan Manuel Lopez (31-1-, 28 KO’s) again this Saturday? And will Matthew Macklin (28-3, 19 KO’s) upset Sergio "Maravilla" Martinez (48-2-2. 27 KO’s) when they face off next Saturday on St. Patrick’s Day in Madison Square Garden? Of [...]