After leaving the Near West Side community center where they work, Joe Kaehn and Rory O’Shea approached two youngsters punching each other in the street. Instead of stopping the fight, the adults took ...

Floyd Mayweather feels that the best thing about his boxing career was losing the semifinal bout at the 1996 Olympics held in Atlanta. Mayweather dropped a very controversial decision to eventual ...

In the frenzy that defines the 1996 Olympics, United States boxers are America’s forgotten team. NBC has elected not to show any live coverage of the boxing competition except for matches on weekend ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DENVER—Some notable moments in women’s boxing history, according to the Women’s Boxing Archive Network: 1904—Women boxers demonstrate the sport at Olympic ...

USA Boxing will appeal Roy Jones Jr.’s controversial 1988 Olympic loss in Seoul based on reports in a new book that judges took bribes to favor South Koreans. “The bottom line is if there is another ...

19 Aug 1996: A general view of the festivities going on during the Opening Ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. Getty Images A pair of red boxing gloves were ...

Although ice hockey and football certainly have their violent episodes, boxing is the only sport in which bloodying one’s opponent is not only acceptable but expected. Head butts are common, and ...

In boxing, Abdullah Muhammad was saying, the toughest thing to learn is proper breathing. A boxer who can’t breathe properly can’t think. And when he can no longer think he panics. Muhammad jumped ...