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George Kimball Passes Away After Long Cancer Battle

George E. Kimball III, noted boxing writer and author, died at his Manhattan home on Wednesday night following a lengthy battle with esophageal cancer. Kimball was 67 years old. He was surrounded by his wife, Marge Marash M.D., and his two children,...

Holyfield Continues The Hard Road Back

By Tim Smith - The promoters of the match between former four-time heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield and Lou Savarese in El Paso on Saturday night have optimistically titled the match “The Road to the Championship.’’ It is that kind of optimi...

Mosley-Collazo: High Speed Collision; With A Twist

LAS VEGAS – When he was just turning pro Luis Collazo used to watch Shane Mosley work his magic on television. Mosley had been a lightweight world champion and had moved up to welterweight, which is where Collazo began his career. “When I was a k...

Jermain Taylor vs. Kassim Ouma: All or Nothing

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – The conventional wisdom in boxing says that a good big man always beats a good little man. But Kassim Ouma doesn’t want to hear anything about conventional wisdom. When it comes to his fight against undisputed middleweight...

The Pressure is Not On Manny Pacquiao

The mid-term congressional elections were last week and there were volatile changes in Washington D.C. as the Democrats took control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Those elections may be over, but there is still one referendu...

Klitschko's Size Doesn't Matter For Calvin Brock

World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is a deceptively big man. You see him from afar and he does not look so big or imposing. But the closer you get to him, the bigger the 6-6, 240-pound Klitschko gets. Calvin Brock is not...

Mayweather: "Three Ways Baldomir Can Go Out; His Face, Ass or Surrender"

LAS VEGAS – If Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is the least bit nervous about his welterweight title match against World Boxing Council champion Carlos Baldomir at the Mandalay Bay on Saturday night, you couldn’t tell it yesterday. During a light-hearted gi...

Barrera Rolls Past Juarez, Pacquiao Next?

LAS VEGAS – Marco Antonio Barrera did not put out a maximum effort in his first fight against Rocky Juarez, and he came away with a disputed decision. He felt bad and wanted another shot to prove that he was much better and that Juarez had no right t...

Rahman-Maskaev: The Long Wait For Revenge

The most striking thing about Hasim Rahman, the World Boxing Council heavyweight champion, and Oleg Maskaev is how remarkably similar they are. Both are square jawed boxers, who aren’t afraid to brawl. Both are have scored stunning knockouts and have...

Baldomir-Gatti: High Stakes in Atlantic City

Carlos Baldomir versus Arturo Gatti wouldn’t appear to be a great match on paper, but neither did Gatti-Ward. And that turned out to be World War III each of the three times that they stepped into the ring. Scott Woodward, vice president of Sycuan...