Boxing is filled with wild and entertaining characters from top to bottom. From Hector “Macho” Camacho to Muhammad Ali, fighters are looking to sell an image so that people will watch their fights.
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 ...
Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...
Bad blood and hype does sell, and therefore has a place in boxing, but a recent trend has been to let the match-ups sell themselves, which is the tack that the World Boxing Super Series Chief Boxing ...
Most heavyweight fights today feature two overweight guys leaning on each other lazily. They maul, mash, rub, and roll on each other never really doing much real damage. The matches are for the most ...
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 the 108th year of Cal boxing’s storied history, the Bears once again proved their might. Cal qualified three boxers to the National Collegiate Boxing Association, or NCBA, championship, held in ...
While boxing is a famous solitary sport, ultimately boiling down to a competition between two individual competitors, the close relationship between a pugilist and their trainer is tough and intimate, ...