Michael Hirsley

Carl Davis and Guiseppe Drew Kidd stood facing each other Thursday near the Garfield Park Fieldhouse boxing ring where they threw punches face-to-face 18 months ago. "You look good," Davis...

Before squaring off in their May 5 mega-fight, Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will face each other repeatedly in an 11-city media tour from New York to...

Jesus Chavez, now 34, has battled adversity in and out of the boxing ring since he was a teenager. He was at it again Saturday night, trying to come back...

Former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko said Wednesday he's unretiring and looking for a title bout to fulfill a dream that he and his brother, Wladimir, the International Boxing Federation champion,...

An unusually active week for Chicago boxing finds cards slated for Wednesday in Hoffman Estates and Friday in Cicero and marks the return of promoter Bobby Hitz to the local...

Now that the unnecessary Sam Peter vs. James Toney rematch is done, with Peter winning far more convincingly and Toney disputing the decision far less convincingly than they did after...

Sylvester Stallone acknowledges taking the idea for his Academy Award-winning "Rocky" movie from the Muhammad Ali-Chuck Wepner fight in 1975. Actor-director Stallone's Rocky was modeled after Wepner, a brawling, ham-and-egger...

Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales, whose combined weight would add up to one heavyweight by today's standards, just fought the kind of fight fans would salivate to see from heavyweights....

Wladimir Klitschko was happy with Saturday night's victory over Calvin Brock, but he was far from satisfied. For one thing, he and trainer Emanuel Steward thought Klitschko's seventh-round technical knockout...

Usually, it's hard to comprehend let alone justify why HBO and Showtime schedule telecasts head-to-head on the same Saturday night. This Saturday, however, it's a little easier to understand. Welterweights...