WBO super featherweight champion Roman "Rocky" Martinez (27-1-2, 16KOs), and undefeated Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27KOs), are eager to trade punches. Discussions are ongoing to match them in the fall. Garcia returned to action over the weekend in Dallas, a...
Controversial fight promoter Don King may be many things but no one can accuse him of being a political fence sitter. In prior elections, the combative King has described himself as "versatile and flexible, a Republicrat at heart." But not for...
Coach Freddie Roach was in an ebullient mood at Wednesday's Juan Manuel Marquez-Manny Pacquiao press conference at the sparkling Edison Ballroom off Times Square. This was, of course, before the bad news emanated from Las Vegas that troubled Roach...
Iron Mike Tyson never got full credit for his hand and foot speed in his younger days in the ring. Despite his blazing punches and nimble feet, Tyson was somewhat miscast as a mechanical KO puncher when he was so much more. When he was making form...
By Michael Marley - If you learn anything after decades of sports-writing, you learn that the "grabber" is more often than not who won and who lost the fight, the game or the race. It's the story behind the story that makes the (Olympics) Games that...
Former world heavyweight champion Michael Marshall "Dynamite" Dokes is fighting the good fight but his opponent may be unbeatable. Dokes, who will turn age 54 in August, is said to be in "the later rounds" of a debilitating battle with stomach and...
Minutes after "Vicious" Victor Ortiz informed referee Jack Reiss that he was not able to continue his grueling Los Angeles war against Josesito Lopez, Top Rank president Todd duBoef got a text message from a key figure in the pay-per-view TV industry...
The stakes are very high for September 15th in Las Vegas. With only two miles of driving distance between them, two high profile pay-per-views will go head to head. On one end, at the MGM Grand, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez will defend his WBC junior mi...
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, the promoter for WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., said Monday night that Andy Lee's co-manager and trainer, Emanuel Steward, is all wet in asserting that Chavez did not take a doping test Saturday night in E...
Another weekend, another important fight, another controversy. Last Saturday, we had the odious split decision in Las Vegas which gave Timothy Bradley a completely undeserved split decision victory and the WBO welterweight crown, as two judges sco...
Let's call this incredible blunder exactly what it is, a black eye for so called higher education. Just an hour before a Tuesday afternoon press conference at the Sun Bowl at the University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP), Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum was not...