Michael Hirsley

World Boxing Council lightweight champion David Diaz was most welcoming and deferential to Chicago visitor Erik Morales, allowing the celebrated ex-champion to get in the last word from the dais...

Miguel Cotto, undefeated in his climb to the top of the junior welterweight and welterweight divisions, and Zab Judah, who has risen to and fallen from that perch in both...

Cory Spinks and Edison Miranda were each half right in Saturday's two middleweight fights at the FedEx Forum in Memphis. The result was a half-good show. Unfortunately, the bad part...

Golota set to get back into ring Polish-born Chicagoan Andrew Golota will make a boxing comeback June 9 in his homeland after more than two years out of the ring....

Diego "Chico" Corrales, whose high-risk boxing style was matched by turbulent days outside the ring, died in a high-speed motorcycle crash Monday night at age 29. Corrales was wearing a...

Oscar De La Hoya needs to start fast, establishing his power and left jab early. Floyd Mayweather has to be fast, making his quick punches and footwork a frustrating factor....

Tom O'Shea is among those who are more amused than annoyed at Floyd Mayweather's "bad boy" persona leading up to Saturday's mega-fight against Oscar De La Hoya. That's because Chicagoan...

Juan Diaz and Acelino Freitas will bring a couple of lightweight titles, a host of victories and knockouts and only one loss into the ring when they square off Saturday...

By knocking out a previously unbeaten challenger Saturday night, WBC super-featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao averted the fate of a string of fellow favorites who suffered upset losses. Pacquiao did not...

The Miller brothers, Darrell and Reggie, personify what baseball does right and wrong in trying to appeal to African-Americans. In high school in Riverside, Calif., older brother Darrell wanted to...