Michael Hirsley

It's not yet a lining, but there's a silver sliver of boxing reform behind the cloud of controversy engulfing the Lennox Lewis-Evander Holyfield heavyweight title fight. A new proposal would...

A SPORT ON THE ROPES Memo to all those politicians howling "Fraud!" and launching investigations in the aftermath of the Evander Holyfield-Lennox Lewis fiasco: Now that boxing has your attention,...

What has 92 legs, fights all over the world, carries championship belts into the ring for every bout and makes a mockery of boxing? It's the parade of 46 different...

Angel Manfredy has to wait six weeks for his big opportunity to exorcise the demons of a stinging defeat. But this week he was able to exercise his devils a...

W. Timothy Ward was struggling with his conscience. The doctor's love of boxing had been nurtured through years of fighting as an amateur. His loathing of it was fed by...

Ex-Olympians David Diaz and Nate Jones of Chicago are struggling to keep up with fellow members of the Class of 1996, the dozen U.S. boxers who turned pro after the...

Tucked into an affluent nook of the San Bernardino Mountains, 7,000 feet up and just down the street from skiers frolicking on man-made snow, Oscar De La Hoya is preparing...

The "Be Like Mike" jingle for Gatorade is emblazoned in the memory as much as "The Shot" against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the 1989 Eastern Conference...

Chicago-area boxers Angel Manfredy and 1996 Olympic teammates David Diaz and Nate Jones are heading to Miami next week, but not to frolic in the sun. Each faces a fracas...

Mike Tyson, newly allied with no-nonsense trainer Tommy Brooks, says he's relaunching the same quest he was on three years ago: fighting his way back to a heavyweight title after...