Boxing

The NCAA Board of Governors decided to hand over the power of determining transgender athlete eligibility within their transitioned-to gender. Effective immediately for winter championships, national sports’ governing bodies will serve as the de-facto mold for each sports’ transgender athlete policy. The policy replaces the NCAA’s 2010 ruling, which based …

Ah, sports. The intensity. The pageantry. The emotion.  The money. Yes, the sports industry is first and foremost a business. Common fans forget this simple fact when their favorite player is traded, or their favorite team relocates cities. At the end of the day, sports are a business. While the …

Previously, Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder displayed mutual respect for each other in prefight press conferences. That all changed on Wednesday night. A couple of inches separated the two boxers during the faceoff on stage at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. They mouthed off at each other with …

Sullivan Barrera, one of the many Cuban boxers who has defected from the island is liked by many for his aggressive boxing style, one that not many from his country have. Cuban Action In the recent month, the Cuban boxing style has been criticized, for being—too technical. It may seem …

The fight between boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and UFC fighter Conor McGregor graced pay-per-view screens everywhere August 26. Each man looked confident walking in, but there could only be one winner. In the end, Mayweather took the win in a TKO. But, McGregor pushed the undefeated boxer to 10 rounds …

It is almost here. Tomorrow, college football returns, but it will be second fiddle to the main event — every sports fan will be counting down the time until the Mayweather-McGregor fight. We have watched chaotic press conference after chaotic press conference between the two fighters, hung on every ridiculous statement …

After much anticipation, Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather will face off on August 26th. History The idea for the match originated in the Summer of 2015 when McGregor said that he would box Mayweather. Since then, there have been many events, including McGregor’s temporary retirement announcement in April 2016, that …

Muhammad Ali, who died last Friday, was laid to rest in a traditional Muslim prayer service on Thursday, June 9, in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Thousands of people representing different creeds, races, religions, and cultures traveled from around the world to attend Ali’s jenazah, the Arabic word for funeral. …

A large poster of one of my personal heroes sits behind my desktop screen. The hero in question, the image’s focus—Muhammad Ali. He’s towering over Sonny Liston, who failed to escape the first round. You’ve seen the image, you’ve heard the story. 51 years after that image was captured, on June 3, …

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74 after a short hospital stay in Arizona.   He had been hospitalized just a few days ago for reported respiratory problems. “The Greatest” was not in good health over the past few years, as Ali suffered increasingly from the …