These are desperate times. The allure of the heavyweight championship, supposedly the greatest prize in sport, was not enough to prevent Vitali Klitschko, a mediocre fighter at best, from abdicating ...

Lost behind a horrid NBA Finals and baseball Interleague play marred by "corkgate" two weekends ago, two warriors stepped in the boxing ring on Saturday with one thing on the line: pride. Arturo Gatti ...

Mexican boxing legend Marco Antonio Barrera has revealed that he received a proposal to fight Oscar Larios in 2003. Barrera turned the fight down, because he saw Larios as 'a friend.' Instead of ...

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