Long before the Golden Gloves tournament and before Micky Ward boxed in Lowell, there was Afons Mello Tavares, a 5-foot-7-inch, 148-pound welterweight southpaw and national amateur champion who fought ...

As a student at Jimtown High School, Ed Bellows wasn’t heavily involved in athletics. “All I played was freshman tennis,” said Bellows. “I had a newspaper route from the fifth grade to my senior year ...

Please verify your email address. Every bout in mixed martial arts starts with contestants standing. Within the UFC, proficiency in boxing stands out as a crucial skill possessed by numerous champions ...

And one can hardly blame boxing superstar Fury for dodging this dynamo in particular given the speed at which he's soaring through the heavyweight division. Itauma, 19, made his professional debut ...

Janibek Alimkhanuly retained his IBF middleweight world title with a brutal stoppage victory over Andrei Mikhailovich. After remarkably surviving a heavy second-round knockdown, Mikhailovich ...

It’s for boxer Esteban “La Máquina” Osuna (Gael ... and his crew strutting in the entry tunnel as an announcer bellows his name to the sullen silence of the fighter looking confused in ...

Boxing legend Mike Tyson posted a new short video of himself training for his upcoming fight against Jake Paul. "Final stretch," Tyson wrote. "Less than 50 days left." The former world heavyweight ...

LIVERPOOL, Oct 3 (Reuters) - An electric guitar played by the late guitarist George Harrison in the early days of the Beatles will go up for sale at an auction next month where it could be sold ...

One of the world’s greatest fighters has had to be separated from his animated Auckland rival, who shouted “I’m going to f***ing kill you” during a chaotic press conference at Fox Sports ...

Professional boxer Mylik Birdsong has been shot dead just weeks before he was due to step in the ring again. Birdsong, who had a 15-1-1 record, was tragically killed in Los Angeles after a ...

"Finally I have won full and complete victory," the former boxer told a group of supporters on Sunday in Shizuoka, the region southwest of Tokyo where the ruling was issued. "I couldn't wait any ...