Michael Hirsley

Whom to watch: South Korean men and women have won seven of the eight individual titles at the last four world championships. France's Lionel Torres, who won the Olympic test...

The U.S. Olympic boxing team has a "legitimate shot at three gold medals" at the 2000 Sydney Games next month. That's the opinion of Teddy Atlas, who has made a...

The last time Evander Holyfield stepped into the ring as a former champion fighting to regain the heavyweight title, as he will again Saturday night, he shocked the boxing world....

Larry Holmes, who was the dominant heavyweight champion for seven years up to 1985, took a liking to fellow Pennsylvania fighter Steve Little of Reading, who won a super-middleweight title...

David Tua, who began his professional boxing career eight years ago as an undersized 204-pound heavyweight, has been the division's growin' Samoan ever since. He has been poised at the...

Mike Tyson is to boxing what pro wrestlers are to wrestling. "I want your heart," Tyson said in his opening salvo for a possible bout with Lennox Lewis. "I want...

The plight of Shoeless Joe Jackson is an ongoing story, but a more compelling case can be made for the reinstatement of third baseman George "Buck" Weaver, one of the...

Oscar De La Hoya's two narrow losses to determined fighters made boxing fans hungry for rematches but left the ex-champion with a taste for retirement. That taste apparently lasted not...

This week is "Wild, Wild West Week" in boxing. In addition to Los Angeles getting the Saturday megafight matching native sons Oscar De La Hoya and Shane Mosley and Las...

Michael Bennett needed less than two years to fight his way from prison release to amateur world heavyweight champion and co-captain of the 2000 U.S. Olympic boxing team. But it...