When Roberto Duran waved his hands in resignation and quit in the rematch with Sugar Ray Leonard 42 years ago, it appeared the rivalry with the...
This was to be a historic weekend for women’s boxing, with the undisputed middleweight championship between Claressa Shields and amateur conqueror Savannah Marshall on tap for...
One of boxing's most prominent stars will return to the squared circle this weekend. Gervonta Davis will headline his fourth straight pay-per-view when he puts his...
Donny Lalonde is best known for fighting Sugar Ray Leonard in 1988, with the WBC light heavyweight championship of the world up for grabs. Many people don’t realize...
From Sugar Ray Leonard and Mike Tyson to Roy Jones Jr. and Lennox Lewis, they were each exceptional champions of the sweet science in their prime....
It’s been 40 years. Unbelievable! On September 16, 1981, in a makeshift arena that was the parking lot of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, “Superfight”...
At first, director Mat Whitecross may seem like a surprising choice for a project like Showtime’s The Kings. Whitecross admits that he is at best a...
“This is a poor boy’s sport.” That’s one of the first lines you hear in voiceover from episode three of the Showtime documentary The Kings,...
The Showtime documentary series The Kings, about the grand era of the 80s when the giants of their sport, boxers Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Thomas...
NEW YORK – April 12, 2021 – In boxing, it is said that styles make fights. From 1980 through 1989, it was the style of four...
There’s a relatively small list of athletes who everyone accepts as being great and yet to me, they still feel a bit undervalued. In baseball, it’s...
Deaths of legends, of icons, those can hit harder than when people you actually know die. It’s because you have strong associations with those legends, usually...
It was November of 1979, and Boston sports fans were their typically surly selves. The Red Sox last won a World Series in 1918, and this...
It was November 25, 1980. I was with Bert Sugar, and, more memorably, Christie Brinkley, in New Orleans, Louisiana, for the rematch between Roberto Duran and...
Los Angeles November 19, 2020 – Viral entertainment platform Triller announced today that Grammy-Award winning singer songwriter, actor, producer Ne-Yo will be performing the National Anthem before Mike...
The Clip, tantalizing and provocative, has been clicked on Instagram ten million times. No telling how many people said, “Hey, look at this, Mike Tyson hitting...
Anniversaries and birthdays. They're the bookmarks of life. They are used to commemorate and remember important events. Happy ones. Sad ones. Patriotic ones. Memorable ones. Exciting...
The sport of boxing like anything else has seen its ups and downs throughout the years, and that included the sport evolving whether through rules or...
“I see dead people.” –Haley Joel Osment, The Sixth Sense Me too. IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. (24-0, 21KOs) should kill (eh, that would be...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD, BRIAN KENNY, KAY ADAMS, CHRIS MANNIX & LZ GRANDERSON JOIN DAZN BOXING BROADCAST TEAM First Assignment: World Heavyweight Title Fight Between Champion...