Cecilia Brækhus embarked on her against-the-odds career in professional boxing almost two decades ago, and she’s hardly stopped fighting before or since. Along the way, her opponents have been many ...
The phones rang at the Main Events promotional offices in the late 1990s, and Jolene Mizzone sat at the front desk taking calls and typing letters. “I didn’t care about boxing,” the one-time ...
There has been a lot of discussion about the current health of boxing with camps seemingly split between it’s never been better or it’s in a crisis. These kinds of debates are not new in boxing, but ...
When In Doubt, Stop the Bout: A Revolutionary Approach to Boxing Safety and Reform, by Mike Silver (Hamilcar Publications, 224 pp., $21.99) While boxing can inspire lofty words such as grace, speed, ...