A candid look inside the final hours of fight week with headliners BJ Penn and Nick Diaz. After 5 years in the wilderness, Nick Diaz is finally returning to the Octagon tonight, at UFC 137 in Las Vegas. (As expected, Diaz is much, much less excited about this than we are.) His opponent is BJ [...]
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 [...]