Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 24, 1950: Welterweight boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson is interviewed after arriving by train in Frankfurt for his Christmas night fight against Hans Stretz. At right are ...

Kell Brook wants to align himself with the all-time greats of boxing by dethroning feared middleweight king Gennady Golovkin in London next Saturday. IBF welterweight champion Brook will jump two ...

Nobody ever described Jake LaMotta as well as he once described himself. Or, actually, maybe describe is the wrong word. It’s more like he was confessing. Or possibly he was explaining something that ...

These days, there is precious little boxing that takes place over the holidays, save for the customary late-year shows in Russia and Japan. For promoters, it’s a financially perilous decision to stage ...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. (50-0) stands as the commercial and statistical pinnacle of this philosophy. Mayweather’s record is ...

In Valatie, where he lived for two decades, Joey Archer wasn’t recognized as the boxer who sent Sugar Ray Robinson into retirement or the man who fought twice for the world middleweight title at ...

BOCA RATON — They’re calling Ray Leonard up on the stage, a stage cordoned off with ropes to resemble a ring and orchestrated by an emcee who, having clearly rehearsed it, is doing his very best ...

He briefly mentored Don King and promoted fighters both well-known (like Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson) and obscure. The fight promoter Don Elbaum in an undated photo. “Don knew more than anyone ...

Ray Leonard, former boxing champion, is now a motivational speaker and philanthropist. Leonard emphasizes the importance of perseverance and self-belief in his speeches. He reflects on his iconic ...