It’s probably a safe bet that if you’re not a pretty strong boxing fan, the name Ingemar Johansson will escape you. He’s mostly forgotten today, but nearly 60 years ago he was more than a sports star.

Ryan Garcia, of Victorville, California, now living in Los Angeles, is a former WBC interim lightweight champion and one of the best young talents in boxing. Garcia is also one of the most popular ...

It's impossible to separate Joe Frazier from the most celebrated double-act in boxing history. All the same, in Mark Kram Jr.'s scrupulous "Smokin' Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier," the great Philly ...

Teofimo Lopez Jr. is the former WBO super lightweight champion. Lopez is also the former WBO, WBA and IBF lightweight champion. He won the WBO junior welterweight title with a unanimous decision win ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For much of his career, boxing great Muhammad Ali was convinced that his brain wouldn’t be affected by the thousands of powerful, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In 1923, Francisco “Pancho Villa” Guilledo put the Philippines on a global stage when he became the first Asian to win the World Flyweight Championship. Bernard James Remollino, ...

Oleksandr Usyk is set to earn a reported $132M in his bout with British fighter Daniel Dubois, one of the largest purses in boxing history. Photos from Usyk's childhood and career chart his rise from ...

Perhaps nobody embodies the famous boxing idiom coined by Muhammad Ali of “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” than Pernell Whitaker. Able to float across the canvas and evade punches with ...