These four figures – the dog, Rocky, Stallone, and boxing – are all related by the fact that they are approaching the end of the line. The dog can hardly move, the poignant depth of the Rocky ...

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 ...

Angelo Dundee died on Wednesday at age 90. He was a legendary boxing trainer and, through great years of boxing — when boxing still was great — he taught famous champions — Carmen Basilio, Muhammad ...

The last time I saw the Champ in person was in October 2015, at an event Sports Illustrated held in his honor at the aptly-named Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville. We were there celebrating his ...

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.

In boxing, the granite-jawed Tex Cobb is best remembered for his bloody one-sided battle against Larry Holmes, a fight so ugly it made Howard Cosell vow on air to quit announcing boxing if the fight ...

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, ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --The name on the front door of a former Minneapolis fire station on the city's north side fits like a glove when you see the flurry of punches flying across the ring inside. But ...

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 ...