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For roughly a century, until very recently, the Detroit Tigers centerfielder Ty Cobb stood as Major League Baseball’s unimpeachable career leader in batting average – at .366. Then, on May 29, baseball made a change and the “Georgia Peach” was … well, impeached. In…

Sixty years after Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston to win the heavyweight title at the Convention Center in Miami Beach, Nico Ali Walsh – the grandson of “The Greatest” – will step foot on South Beach soil for the first time on June 29,…

Alberto Puello has demanded a fight against WBC junior welterweight No. 1 contender Sandor Martin, arguing that titleholder Devin Haney should be stripped of his belt following his recent loss to Ryan Garcia.  Puello (23-0, 10 KOs), 29, from the Dominican Republic, secured the…

The documentary series on McGuigan’s Gym has already started to enhance the career prospects of some of their leading fighters. All four episodes of STABLE: The Boxing Game were aired on BBC One, in the weeks before Ellie Scotney’s victory in April over Segolene…

It has been 18 months since Felix Cash last fought, but now – with new trainer Adam Booth – he challenges for the European middleweight title. Cash (16-0, 10 KOs) will meet champion Tyler Denny on Saturday at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham,…

Regarding 6-foot-1 Rafael Espinoza, the tallest featherweight titleholder in boxing history, as little more than a sideshow is a good way to get yourself hurt. One imagines challenger Sergio Chirino took Espinoza much more seriously than that in the ring Friday, and all he has…

Andres Cortes fell short of making weight, failed to keep pace with his opponent’s work rate in the ring and appeared to run out of gas at the end of Friday’s fight with Abraham Nova at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas. All Cortes did was…

On Friday at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Troy Isley fought like a man who knew his professional future hung in the balance. And it may very well have. As Isley took on Javier Martinez in a 10-round middleweight fight, ESPN’s Bernardo Osuna described a…

Junior middleweight prospect Vito Mielnicki Jr., who recently inked a deal with Top Rank, envisions a future showdown with his close friend and promotional mate Xander Zayas.  Mielnicki (18-1, 12 KOs), is set to make his Top Rank debut on Aug. 10 at the…