If boxing was down, it got off the canvas this weekend. On Saturday night, Manny Pacquiao's performance was absolutely jaw dropping, a fistic work of art.
Len Berman | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
On the undercard Yuri Foreman won the WBA Super welterweight championship. He's studying to become a rabbi. A boxing rabbi. Is that kosher?
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.15.2009 | Technology
Did Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao make Web history?
AP | TIM DAHLBERG | Posted 11.15.2009 | Sports
LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao's speed and power were way too much for Miguel Cotto's heart. Pacquiao put on yet another dominating performance Sat...
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.14.2009 | Technology
There's more to Filipinos than a man who can throw punches in a ring, of course, but Manny Pacquaio's success, in ways big and small, has unified and validated a sizable minority group from a country that, with 92 million people, is the 12th most populous in the world, just one spot under Mexico.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago
I wondered: How did boxer David Diaz come back from a nationally televised beat-down, a year older and a bum knee later? So I asked him.
AP | GREG BEACHAM | Posted 09.20.2009 | Home
LAS VEGAS — Money came back with a guarantee. Floyd Mayweather Jr. told the world he was still its best boxer despite taking 21 months off, and ...
AP | DAVE SKRETTA | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Manny Pacquiao stood face-to-face with Miguel Cotto on a makeshift stage set up along the first base line, the wind whipping off the ...
Dave Zirin | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
In 1918, the first black heavyweight boxing champion defeated a racist "great white hope." But when the Obama Administration takes a right hook to the face, it just smiles through bloodied teeth.
nytimes.com | SOMINI SENGUPTA | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
Boxing represents a new kind of freedom to the women who entered this steamy, old-fashioned ring on India's southern tip. ...
Paul Mecurio | Posted 09.14.2009 | Comedy
Paul Mecurio | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment
Bill Cunningham | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Organizations that can't touch Obama in the ring are moving to a crowding, brawling, Frasier-like approach to the debate.
Suzette Standring | Posted 09.02.2009 | Entertainment
The power of prayer amazes famed boxer Micky Ward. Actor Mark Wahlberg portrays him in The Fighter, a Paramount movie being filmed in Lowell.
Paul Mecurio | Posted 09.01.2009 | Comedy
I found out there's a lot that goes in to watching a guy beat the crap out of another guy. For instance, there is someone whose actual job is asking the audience if they are ready to rumble.
Paul Mecurio | Posted 08.31.2009 | Comedy
Where do you see yourself in five years? If your answer is drooling while in a permanent state of dementia then consider a rewarding career as a boxer.
AP | CHARLES ODUM | Posted 08.26.2009 | Home
ATLANTA — Vernon Forrest, a former two-division champion who gained stardom when he became the first boxer to defeat Shane Mosley, was shot to d...
Broadcasting & Cable | Posted 08.06.2009 | Media
Twenty-two-year-old boxing phenom Victor Ortiz is no household name, but he has made plenty of television appearances, fighting on ESPN, HBO and pay-p...
Michael Shapiro | Posted 07.05.2009 | Entertainment
Glavine, so great and so much in demand for so long, now finds himself at the mercy of men whose interests are not his own.
Greg Hanlon | Posted 05.28.2009 | Entertainment
The film weaves old footage of Tyson with interviews with the contemporary version, showing the discrepancy between the menacing block of granite he once was and the tired, doughy man he has become.
Dave Hollander | Posted 05.27.2009 | Style
Manny Pacquiao is more than just boxer. He's a movement.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.20.2009 | Entertainment
Biological factors do not compel people from certain races to excel in certain sports. Cultural factors do.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.15.2009 | Home
Oscar de la Hoya just announced that he's retiring from boxing. One of the giants of boxing, de la Hoya told his fans that he is retiring because he ...
Michael Shrage | Posted 05.09.2009 | Entertainment
Thrilla in Manila looks at the famous Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazier rivalry from Frazier's perspective in a transparent representation of the fighter's tumultuous relationship with his better known rival.
Robyn Hillman-Harrigan | Posted 05.08.2009 | Entertainment
I spent the weekend in North Carolina at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and had the great pleasure of getting to see many inspiring and thought provoking films.
Gordon Marino | Posted 11.16.2009 | Sports