Light Heavyweight Boxing

It's being billed as the biggest Ultimate Fighting Championship bout in history. UFC President Dana White is projecting the comeback of heavyweight champion Randy Couture against former World Wrestling Entertainment star Brock Lesnar on Saturday in Las...

Where have you gone, Floyd Mayweather, Jr.? A boxing nation turns its lonely eyes to you. And a rapidly dwindling nation it is. Last night, Roy Jones Jr., formerly everyone's choice as the world's most talented boxer, bar none, made a dramatic attempt...

Rashad Evans knocked out former light-heavyweight champion Chuck (The Iceman) Liddell in devastating fashion Saturday night at UFC 88. The crunching punch to the chin seemed to come out of nowhere and left the 38-year-old Liddell, who was attempting to...

After the UFC light-heavyweight championship fight between defending titleholder Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and challenger Forrest Griffin on July5, Griffin sent entreaties heavenward that the judges would see the fight his way. He had tried to keep...

Georges St. Pierre dominated Matt Hughes and won by a verbal tap-out in the second round to take the UFC interim welterweight title Saturday night at UFC 79. St-Pierre took Hughes down to the mat, landed multiple shots, gained side control and applied...

Administrator4: UFC light-heavyweight champion is here and ready for your questions. Who's here and ready to take on the Iceman? topstryker: Here Lakermark: Chuck, when you faught Quinton Jackson, the punch before the actual punch that knocked you...

Hall of Fame trainer Angelo Dundee has a saying for times like these: "Someone always comes along." His theory has rung true for decades. Each time boxing fell out of the mainstream, a star emerged to make the sport matter again. Muhammad Ali, Sugar...

Las Vegas -- THE audience has paid to see blood and will not be disappointed. When the arena plunges into darkness, they rise as one: an 8-year-old in a skullcap that says "Punishment," a tourist in a T-shirt that says "Legalized Brutality," a young...

Anaheim's Honda Center will be the place where former Ultimate Fighting Championship light-heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell fights for the first time since losing his belt in a surprising first-round knockout loss to Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, UFC...

Max Schmeling, the great German boxing champion best remembered for two dramatic bouts with the American heavyweight Joe Louis, has died. He was 99. Schmeling, who was cast as a symbol of Nazi Germany before World War II, died Wednesday at his home in...

Shafts of early morning light pierced the gloom in long diagonal lines as the smell of sweat slowly filled the dank prison gym. Seven men were scattered around the concrete floor, stretching, doing sit-ups, pounding heavy bags hanging from basketball...

LONG ISLAND'S boxing history reaches back 110 years to the middleweight title fight between bare-knucklers Jack (The Nonpareil) Dempsey and Johnny Reagan. Boxing was illegal in those days, but that didn't stop the fighters, their followers and fans from...