By Jake Donovan - Promoters and willing boxers continue to feel the effects of outrageous insurance policy requirements in order to stage a boxing or MMA show in the state of New York. Even in finally squeezing in a show since the revised ruling, event handlers for the January 14 Showtime-televised car...
For over 15 years Thompson Boxing has consistently been one of the most successful club shows in the country. Running the bulk of their cards from the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, California, they have been able to develop the likes of Tim Bradley and Mauricio Herrera.
The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen "Breadman" Edwards giving his thoughts on Oscar De La Hoya's career, Floyd Mayweather Jr. matching up with Felix Trinidad, Manny Pacquiao vs. Terence Crawford, PEDs, Ronda Rousey and more.
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, actor Mickey Rourke is planning a return to boxing at age 64, so he can notch up 10 wins on his record. Rourke has eight professional wins under his belt and he wants two more fights in 2017 to end his ring career with 10 victories.
James DeGale admits he once was naïve to how prevalent performance-enhancing drug use is in boxing. Now, however, DeGale doesn’t want to participate in a fight unless he knows his opponent is clean. The IBF super middleweight champion demanded Olympic-style drug testing for his 168-pound championship unification fight against Badou Jack on January 14 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn (Showtime).
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - If you’ve gotten to this point and aren’t happy, it’s your own fault. You should have seen it coming last week. As has become early January tradition in this Tuesday morning space, we proactively greet the New Year with a preview of stories other boxing scribes will be reacting to about 12 mon...
by David P. Greisman - What a difference a year makes. There were three fight cards in January 2016. All of the main events were mismatches on paper — Deontay Wilder vs. Artur Szpilka, Danny Garcia vs. Robert Guerrero and the rematch between Sergey Kovalev and Jean Pascal — though at least Wilder-Szpilka...
In 2016, the World Boxing Association began their plan of eliminating world titles. In several of the weight classes, there were as many as three WBA champions. For example, in the middleweight division Gennady Golovkin is the WBA's "super" champion, with Daniel Jacobs as the "regular" champion and Hassan N'dam as the WBA interim-champion.
Former world boxing champion Carlos Baldomir will continue to be detained until the starts of his trial for the allegations of sexual abuse of his minor daughter, who is now 14 years old.
On an April morning in 2010, Venezuelan boxing legend Edwin "El Inca" Valero, an undefeated two-time world champion, murdered his wife. Two days later, he took his own life in his prison cell at 28 years of age. Now, his violent and troubling story is making headlines and causing controversy all over again, in a politically charged scandal over a banned film about his life.