Michael Hirsley

Fernando Vargas has been closing the gap on David Reid, his teammate on the 1996 U.S. Olympic boxing team, ever since they turned professional. Both are now unbeaten champions. And...

Like a dance card filled out in pencil, one with an ample eraser on top just in case, Las Vegas' schedule of fights this fall looks full . . ....

Top lightweight contender Angel "El Diablo" Manfredy isn't lacking confidence. Or a willingness to express it loudly. After he scored a seventh-round technical knockout of Luis Lizarraga (29-15-1) at the...

Their names are Felix and Oscar, but they are decidedly not boxing's odd couple. Felix Trinidad and Oscar De La Hoya, both 26 and both confident, unbeaten welterweight champions, could...

Chicago junior welterweight Rocky Martinez has been offered a fight that could vault him back into title contention--if details can be completed and if he can beat undefeated Hector Camacho...

Boxers' insurance and pensions, the growing involvement of Indian reservations and female competitors in the sport are part of the agenda for the National Association of Boxing Commissions' midsummer convention....

Oscar De La Hoya and his promoter, Bob Arum, may not be looking past Oba Carr. It just looks that way. Carr, with a respectable 48-2-1 record and losses only...

Logan Hobson and Bob Canobbio are to boxing as plate umpires are to baseball. But while the umpires call balls and strikes for all to see and hear, the prizefight...

Tony Ayala Jr. learned a trade during his 16 years in prison, one that should benefit him and might even land him a job. But for all those years, he...

Promoter Bob Arum and HBO Sports vice president Lou DiBella, allies in boxing's resurgence as a TV sport, are impassioned opponents in the debate over open scoring that would reveal...