Boxing

INDIANAPOLIS — ABC News enters the ring once again to bring you the final installment of its documentary examining the life of boxer, Mike Tyson. It’s a life story that will forever link Tyson to Indiana. It is where he was convicted of rape and served time in prison. WRTV covered it for years in […]

It has been a rough week for boxer Floyd Mayweather earlier last week it was reporter that his kids mother Josie Harris passed away in the driveway of her home in California. Now it’s been reported that Floyd Mayweather’s long time trainer and uncle Roger Mayweather passed away at 58 years old. Roger was one […]

George Foreman’s daughter Freeda, who followed in her dad’s footsteps into the world of boxing, has died at 42. She was found dead in her home near Houston by a relative, according to TMZ. Foreman began a boxing career in 2000 as a middleweight fighter.  Freeda, one of George’s 12 children, winning five out of […]

@kwellscomm @1067WTLC TLCNaptown.com National News and Sports A bipartisan effort by lawmakers is seeking a posthumous pardon for the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion. Arizona Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey are leading the effort to clear the name of boxing legend, Jack Johnson. Johnson became heavyweight champ in 1908, however […]

  Shaun Assael, Senior Writer, ESPN Magazine, and a member of ESPN’s Investigations Group is the author of The Murder Of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin & Heavyweights. He talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about who he thinks killed the boxing hero and much more! “I believe that the preponderance of evidence shows that he […]

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The matches between American boxer Joe “The Brown Bomber” Louis and German Max “Black Uhlan of the Rhine” Schmeling defined the era of early 20th Century boxing. On this day in 1938, Louis defeated Schmeling and became the first Black heavyweight boxer of his rank to score a first-round knockout. Louis and Schmeling previously met […]

Ruckus reveals he told Beckford before the scuffle that he would “love” to fight him.

The late, great Muhammad Ali is considered the greatest boxer to have ever participated in the sport. But even greats have people they respect and admire, and for Ali, it was Mike Tyson.

The boxing legend and cultural icon will be sent off like the king he was.

The most famous kid of the boxing champ finally broke her silence during her appearance on The TODAY Show on Monday.