Jermell Charlo wants to bring Houston to boxing big time
When Jermell Charlo takes on Joachim Alcine on Halloween night at NRG Arena, it will be only his second time headlining a card—and the first time he’s done so in his hometown of Houston.
Shoulder surgery forces Artur Beterbiev to pull out of scheduled title eliminator bout
Artur Beterbiev knows a little something about putting a sudden stop to things, having dispensed of all nine of his professional opponents by knockout. Unfortunately, the undefeated Canadian-based Russian slugger now knows what it feels like to be unable to finish what you start.
Gerald Washington celebrates his roots in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month
I love my background. When I was little growing up in church, I used to shy away from it a little bit being the only black kid, but now I embrace it. I feel like I’m like the true meaning of an American. We all came here and we’re all mixed together.
Latino Pride: PBC fighters celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
If you were to convene a roundtable of boxing’s greatest historians and ask them to tick off the most impactful elements that have made the sport what it is today, it wouldn’t take but a few beats before Latino fighters would enter the conversation.
Deontay Wilder eyes a quick return to the ring. But first, it's Sea-Doo time.
If you should happen upon a certain lake in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the coming days, don’t trip if you see a 6-foot-7-inch fellow being pulled behind a fast-moving watercraft, arms in place of ski ropes, like a human inner tube—a human inner tube that just turned a Frenchman’s grill into the facial equivalent of a crumpled milk carton.
Marv Albert returns to call first heavyweight title fight on prime-time TV in three decades
Thirty years ago in Reno, Nevada, an era ended. Tonight in Birmingham, Alabama, a new one begins. And the same man will preside over both.
Feeling Minnesota: Jamal James assesses the truth behind his home state stereotypes
They shoot from the womb in North Face jackets. They talk funny. The men all dress like Paul Bunyan while the women sport the dimensions of Babe the Blue Ox. These are but a few of the stereotypes that blanket Minnesotans like snow does their home turf at least 13 months out of the year. But how much truth is there to these clichés? We thought we’d ask a local boxer, Jamal James, to find out.
Caleb Truax enjoying the full-time fight life
Before he fought Daniel Jacobs on April 24 in Chicago, Caleb Truax lived the kind of everyman life you normally only see in hardscrabble underdog boxing flicks.
