The recent WBO interim featherweight title fight between Carl Frampton and Nonito Donaire highlighted the fact that boxers don’t always have to hurl abuse, insults, and tables in order to hype up a ...

Styles make fights but personalities make attractions. It’s long been known that little sells in boxing like conflict, grudges and vendettas that can only be settled in one place – the prize ring. It ...

But for a truer reflection of the place, look instead at veteran trainer Craig Thurmond. “It’s really the character of everybody here that makes a gym,” he said as he looked around at the dozen boxers ...

In boxing, the granite-jawed Tex Cobb is best remembered for his bloody one-sided battle against Larry Holmes, a fight so ugly it made Howard Cosell vow on air to quit announcing boxing if the fight ...

For too many New York City kids, the story is the same: absent fathers, gang ties, and few role models or outlets. On social media, every slight is magnified, every humiliation broadcast — pushing ...

Famed boxing promoter Lou DiBella calls the death of Jake LaMotta “the end of an era.” “He was an icon in the sport of boxing, one of the more colorful characters in era that was full of colorful ...

Crown, one the oldest boxing gyms in Michigan, aims to create community through opportunity for all ages and ambitions. LANSING, Mich. - Following the path behind an old industrial building, past the ...

Two-Ton Tony Galento was a bartender and a buffoon but he carried, as biographer Joseph Monninger wrote, "the American Dream" in his left hook. That is the son of Italian immigrants, who was raised in ...