Former light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver tested positive for synthetic testosterone, a banned substance, in a drug test before his heavyweight…
Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez stops Brian Viloria, retains flyweight title
Flyweight champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez strengthened his claim as the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world with his one-sided…
Andrzej Fonfara defeats Nathan Cleverly by unanimous decision
Murphy set a major league record with homers in six straight postseason games, snapping a tie with Carlos Beltran, who homered in five straight games …
The 30 young boxers on the rise in 2015
These are good days for fighters aged over 30, so much so that even some of boxing’s up-and-comers, such as Gennady Golovkin and light heavyweig…
Crawford’s title fight also about pound-for-pound pre-eminence
After 12 meetings this season, the Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays are as familiar with each other’s approaches, tendencies, strengths …
Rigondeaux likely to be stripped of one of his belts
Unified junior featherweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux is on the verge of being stripped of one of his title belts because of inactivity. You migh…
Golovkin’s path to global stardom runs through Lemieux
When Gennady Golovkin came to the United States in 2012, largely unknown despite owning a middleweight world title, he and Tom Loeffler. It sounded fa…
Cunningham rematched with Tomasz Adamek and lost a split decision
Steve Cunningham twice won world titles in the cruiserweight division before doing what most cruiserweights eventually do, which is move up for greate…
Unbeaten heavyweight Luis Ortiz to fight Bryant Jennings on Dec. 19
The HBO boxing season has a good chance to end the year with a bang. Heavyweight knockout artist Luis Ortiz and top contender Bryant Jennings will mee…
Gennady Golovkin defeats David Lemieux, unifies middleweight titles
Gennady Golovkin delivered yet another big drama show, and another one-sided one, as he knocked out David Lemieux in the eighth round to unify middlew…