Roy Jones Jr. was, at one time, the best boxer on Earth. That time has long since gone. But in his light-heavyweight non-title bout against Russian Denis Lebedev in Moscow today, Jones made it deep into the third minute of the 10th round. He was prevented from reaching the final bell, though. Roy Jones Jr [...]
Bernard Hopkins has supplanted George Foreman as boxing’s oldest title holder. Bernard Hopkins , 46, won the WBC light heavyweight title Saturday night with a unanimous decision over Jean Pascal in a 12-round rematch of their controversial fight five months ago. Bernard Hopkins wrested the WBC, IBO and The Ring magazine titles from his 28-year-old [...]
Baltimore police say a man became distraught as a doctor briefed on his mother’s condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital and shot the doctor, then shot and killed his mother and himself in her hospital room. The gunman, 50-year-old Paul Warren Pardus, had been listening to the surgeon around midday when he “became emotionally distraught and [...]
