Tonight's super middleweight bout between Andre Ward and Edwin Rodriguez got weird when referee Jack Reiss called a…

Excerpted from A Savage Business. Republished by permission of the author; his postscript follows.

Excerpted from Undisputed Truth, available now from Blue Rider Press.

Before he became the main attraction at the freak show, and before he became a kitsch icon, Mike Tyson was the…

Originally published in the February 1988 issue of Playboy. Reprinted here by the permission of the author.

Joe Frazier died two years ago today. Now is as good a time as any to pay tribute to the former champ through a…

Dag.

The laughing lightweight you see in the background is Scott Jenkins, who went to 10-0 with his five-round takedown…

After Jermichael Finley's recent spinal cord injury, a sportswriting friend of mine shook his head and referred to…

Here's a couple of stories about Angelo Dundee. From Grantland, a nice piece by Dave Kindred; at SI, dig Richard…

In the latest issue of New York Magazine, Mike Tyson looks back:

Apropos of nothing let's take a moment to appreciate Jose Torres. Here is what Leonard Shecter wrote about Torres…

The Contender from Narratively on Vimeo.

Over on The Stacks, we're republishing Murray Kempton's classic dispatch from the first Clay-Liston fight, in…

Originally published on March 7, 1964, in The New Republic. Reprinted here with the permission of the author's…

For several years in the late Sixties, while (largely) lesser fighters vied for the heavyweight title and while his…

Sugar Ray and Gene Kelly.

Norman Mailer went out running with Muhammad Ali one morning, a few days before the fight with George Foreman in…