World heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko was left frustrated on Wednesday when Briton David Haye pulled out of their June 20 title clash after suffering an injury in training.
In the five years I have spent covering boxing, I have had a few of what I like to call "cringe moments." I cringed when greedy promoters paraded a battered and broken Mike Tyson into the ring for fight after fight, even though he was little more than a shell of his former self. And he had a history of biting people.
The call came last week, just as I was boarding a plane to Salt Lake City. On the other end of the line was Bernd Boente, the top-flight manager for IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and his brother, former WBC champion Vitali Klitschko.
Last week, SI writer Richard Deitsch interviewed Lennox Lewis for the magazine's Q&A. The former heavyweight champ is a contestant on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice. Here are additional excerpts from their conversation:
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
Rapper and actor LL Cool J (né James Todd Smith III) has been a boxing fan long before he recorded "Mama Said Knock You Out." SI.com's Richard Deitsch recently caught up with the 39-year-old for a conversation on his passion for pugilism:
ATLANTIC CITY -- I won't begin to disrespect Shannon Briggs by referring to him as anything other than a survivor. Born with severe asthma (he takes up to seven different medications every day), Briggs was the product of a broken, busted and dysfunctional home (no one term does it justice). Raised in the poverty stricken Atlantic Towers in Brownsville, N.Y., by a drug-dependent mother who overdosed on his 25th birthday and a father who kicked him to the curb over his love for boxing and a can of peas. (He later died in prison.) To make ends meet Briggs would hustle chess games in New York City parks. "But I sucked," says Briggs. "Good days I would be up $5. Bad days I would be down $20."
World heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko was left frustrated on Wednesday when Briton David Haye pulled out of their June 20 title clash after suffering an injury in training.
In the five years I have spent covering boxing, I have had a few of what I like to call "cringe moments." I cringed when greedy promoters paraded a battered and broken Mike Tyson into the ring for fight after fight, even though he was little more than a shell of his former self. And he had a history of biting people.
The call came last week, just as I was boarding a plane to Salt Lake City. On the other end of the line was Bernd Boente, the top-flight manager for IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and his brother, former WBC champion Vitali Klitschko.
Last week, SI writer Richard Deitsch interviewed Lennox Lewis for the magazine's Q&A. The former heavyweight champ is a contestant on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice. Here are additional excerpts from their conversation:
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
Rapper and actor LL Cool J (né James Todd Smith III) has been a boxing fan long before he recorded "Mama Said Knock You Out." SI.com's Richard Deitsch recently caught up with the 39-year-old for a conversation on his passion for pugilism:
ATLANTIC CITY -- I won't begin to disrespect Shannon Briggs by referring to him as anything other than a survivor. Born with severe asthma (he takes up to seven different medications every day), Briggs was the product of a broken, busted and dysfunctional home (no one term does it justice). Raised in the poverty stricken Atlantic Towers in Brownsville, N.Y., by a drug-dependent mother who overdosed on his 25th birthday and a father who kicked him to the curb over his love for boxing and a can of peas. (He later died in prison.) To make ends meet Briggs would hustle chess games in New York City parks. "But I sucked," says Briggs. "Good days I would be up $5. Bad days I would be down $20."
Vitali Klitschko wants to make history. More precisely, he wants to make history again. "I have a vision," said Klitschko in a telephone interview from the Ukraine. "It's one I have had for a long time. I want my brother and I to be heavyweight champions at the same time."
In 1992, Riddick Bowe decided to take a stand. Unhappy with the WBC's mandate that he fight No. 1 contender Lennox Lewis, Bowe decided that the belt was no longer worth the leather strap it came on. So in a glorious public-relations stunt, Bowe took the belt and unceremoniously dumped it into a London trash can.
Vitali Klitschko's heavyweight title defense against Hasim Rahman is likely to be rearranged for June 18 after the champion suffered an injury in training.
Almost a year after he retired, former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis reportedly wants to return to the ring in November to fight Vitali Klitschko, holder of the WBC title he relinquished.
When Roy Jones Jr. defended his IBF super middleweight title in 1996, he was wearing Grant boxing gloves. Evander Holyfield wore them, too, for his 1999 WBC heavyweight bout against Lennox Lewis. A...
World heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko will make the first defense of his WBC title against Britain's Danny Williams in New York on December 11, it was announced on Thursday.
British heavyweight Danny Williams faces Oleg Maskaev on October 9 in London in his first fight since last month's knockout of ex-world champion Mike Tyson.
World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko was acclaimed on Monday as the man who put Ukraine on the boxing map and salvaged the family reputation.
I climb a sooty flight of stairs and open the wide, dimpled steel door to Gleason's Gym, a converted warehouse in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. It's 7 A.M. on a Wednesday and barely 30 degrees...
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