**With Slideshow** © Heidi Sherwood The 2010 Hall of Fame weekend in Canastota, NY has ended and as with previous ceremonies, excitement filled the air for both fighters, fans, honored guest and inductees. While the weather for the event was less than desirable, not only hot but excessively humid, fans …

After all the fights I have attended, all the fighters, promoters, managers and trainers I have had the pleasure of either interviewing or being friends with to this day nothing excites me more the the International Boxing Hall of Fame induction weekends. It is the only time all of our …

“I’ll fight who ever is in front of me!” Former featherweight and super featherweight title holder Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero has never been one to do much talking outside of the ring. Inside of the ring he is all business and little else, to this date that attitude has served …

Former middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik developed a reputation as boxing’s blue collar good guy. A brawler hailing from Youngstown, OH who represents everything inside the ring that the city itself does outside. Hard working, honest and takes nothing for granted, this attitude has garnered him an impressive fan following, similar …

Is the Super Six Tournament Lucian Bute’s blueprint to the super middleweight throne? It is good to be a super middleweight these days. The division while having some great fighters throughout its years such as James Toney, Roy Jones Jr, Michael Nunn, Joe Calzaghe, Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn, for …

Final Round and Luis Del Valle score big on March 27th card! Brian Burke’s newly created Final Round Promotions had its inaugural fight card Saturday, March 27th at Poughkeepsie, New York’s Mid Hudson Civic Center. Among those in attendance at the capacity filled venue were former WBC light welterweight titlist …

Final Round Promotions enters the sport with inaugural card tonight Newly formed Final Round Promotions, based out of Poughkeepsie, NY and headed up by CEO Brian Burke, will have its first show tonight at the Mid Hudson Civic Center. While the card is not full of big time established stars, …

Photos Courtesy Of Luis Del Valle Twenty three year old Luis Del Valle is confident but not cocky. He has high aspirations but is not unrealistic, wants to model himself after other great fighters of Puerto Rico like Felix Trinidad but also wants to carve out his own legacy. In …

© Jon Swenson / InPhotography.com Karim Mayfield is not quite your ordinary welterweight, mainly because of the late start he has gotten in the sport. Karim, who did not have his first amateur bout until he was 20 then turned pro at 24, has done his best to make up …

The talk and hype surrounding Edwin Valero has been less then flattering over the last two years, in fact other than the admission of Valero’s power, most of the time he is referenced as a one dimensional slugger with an untested chin who is going to fall hard when he …

One would think that a sporting man of Thomas Hearns’ stature would have countless books written about his conquest. Hearns is not only one of the most established professional boxers to ever grace the ring but one of the most accomplished professional athletes, period. Any man that has been involved …

This has been a turbulent year for boxing in so many ways. We’ve seen the return of Floyd Mayweather Jr, the end of Roy Jones as a possible serious contender, the fall of old champions and the rise of new. This year we were dazzled by Manny Pacquiao, who disposed …