GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – It has not been a great year at Showtime. The boxing budget was slashed. Its franchise boxer, former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson, is on indefinite hiatus. The network took a ...

LAS VEGAS – Ross Greenburg, president of HBO Sports, was lamenting the state of boxing this weekend when he centered on one of the factors in its struggle to compete with other popular sports such as ...

There are nights in boxing, for the viewer, so vivid as to make every mention of them bring back a wave of emotion embedding them in the immediate. It feels like it just happened again because of the ...

For once, George Foreman wasn't the dope at the end of Muhammad Ali's rope. And he wasn't selling anything, either. "It's wonderful. Finally, I'm not the Grillman," Foreman said Sunday with a big ...

Murray Olderman is a former sports columnist and cartoonist whose work regularly appeared in 750 daily newspapers. He is the author of 11 books and was inducted into the National Sportscasters and ...

Say what you will about boxing: It’s cruel, it’s crooked. That’s true. It’s gone the way of horse racing, no longer a daily sports staple in America. But boxing is not dead, not quite. As long as ...

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 ...