The Washington Post

Tyson Bout Could Lead To Changes On Boxing

The same news flash that electrified the sports world shocked Mayor Anthony A. Williams: The D.C. Boxing & Wrestling Commission, which had been trying to bring one of sports' legendary bad boys to ...
The Washington Post

On the Boxing Front: Writer Budd Schulberg on Contenders and Pretenders

MEMPHIS -- The short, white-haired man with a cane came to the heavyweight championship fight Saturday night for the simple reason that it was a heavyweight championship fight. Budd Schulberg grew up ...
NPR

Boxing

This weekend in Memphis, Mike Tyson battles Lennox Lewis for boxing's heavyweight championship. Unscheduled brawls have been as much a part of the story as the fight itself. Plus, why some fans are ...
BBC Sport

Weighting game over for Essa

Welsh boxer Yassim Essa will miss the Commonwealth Games after failing to beat the scales for his event. The Cardiff-based fighter was due to line up in the lightest of the categories - under 48kg - ...
Los Angeles Times

WBO, WBA Titles on the Line at Pond

Two titles will be on the line tonight at the Arrowhead Pond with World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Antonio Margarito and World Boxing Assn. flyweight champion Eric Morel defending their ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Johansson leads the class of 2002 into boxing hall

CANASTOTA, N.Y. (AP) -- Even at 80 years old, Angelo Dundee has not forgotten the sweet right hand of Ingemar Johansson. ``The way he would let that right hand go was like a picture -- what you try to ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

De La Hoya calls it quits Boxing's Golden Boy has not beaten top opponent since 2002.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. LOS ANGELES - Oscar De La Hoya stopped battling himself Tuesday, deciding after much internal turmoil to retire and end a career ...