Legendary fighters Mike Tyson, Oscar de la Hoya, “Sugar” Ray Leonard, Larry Holmes and Julio Cesar Chavez were among the inaugural inductees named Wednesday to the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame.
A woman who claimed to have been intimidated by boxer Oscar De La Hoya during a wild night at a New York City hotel has now been ordered to pay his legal bill, after a judge said her lawsuit was “frivolous” and malicious.
Jose Ramirez failed in his bid to become the first American since Oscar De la Hoya in 1992 to win Olympic lightweight gold when he lost to Uzbek Fazliddin Gaibnazarov in the second round on Thursday.
Even Manny Pacquiao’s fiercest critics believed he was the clear winner over Timothy Bradley Jr. Saturday night.
Boxing promoter Bob Arum returns to the Philippines this month to finalize plans for Manny Pacquiao’s next battle. Most 80-year-olds would find crossing the Pacific a burden, but fight-promoting and managing around the world is natural for Arum. And if you have the hottest fighter in the world and the biggest draw today, you do [...]
A popular sports idiom spawned by American football slams anyone—either an expert or plain spectator—who in hindsight points out where a team went wrong after its big Sunday game has been played.
LAS VEGAS—It will be a “fight for the ages,” as Top Rank chief Bob Arum called it. It will be a matchup that will go three-deep in both corners of the squared circle. Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez tangle for the third time Saturday in search for a definitive end to a rivalry that [...]
LAS VEGAS—Slowly, but surely, the wheels have started to turn again as far as the biggest boxing fight on the horizon is concerned. Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather Jr. The sport’s only eight-division champion in history against an undefeated superstar who has generated some of the biggest pay-per-view outings. Blitzkrieg aggressor versus superb defense specialist. [...]
LAS VEGAS—All that talk about Manny Pacquiao knocking out Juan Manuel Marquez has been milked dry from just about every angle. So Marquez has decided to throw in a twist. “My style is difficult for him and it will give me the chance to hit him,” the Mexican counterpuncher told international journalists Wednesday, when both [...]
For eight rounds, he stood at the receiving end of a brutal, relentless beating so that when the bell rang for the ninth, he remained in his stool, unable to go any further.
HOLLYWOOD—It was with a hearty laugh that Manny Pacquiao unveiled the reason for all the extra hard work he’s been putting into his preparation for his upcoming fight. “It’s an insult to my manhood,” the worldwide ring icon said in Filipino. Juan Manuel Marquez better take him seriously, though. The reigning pound-for-pound king said he’s [...]
Before he came to Manila last week, Mexican boxing great Juan Manuel Marquez was scored by an American sportswriter for playing it blind and dumb.
