It's pretty cool how Sendo Takeshi's character in Hajime no Ippo seems to pay homage to Sylvester Stallone's iconic portrayal ...

The Japanese Boxing Commission and the Sportswriters Club named Naoya Inoue as their 'Fighter of the Year' for a seventh ...

Forever Young won the Saudi Cup, going 1,800 meters (about 1 1/8 miles) around one turn at King Abdulaziz Racecourse, by a ...

The British heavyweight pair will be at it again in rematch on May 17 at London's Copper Box Arena in the major event of a ...

Japanese world titleholder Naoya Inoue has resumed intense training in readiness to defend his undisputed super-bantamweight ...

Japan’s longest-serving death row inmate wins record £1m after wrongful conviction - The case relied heavily on a confession he later retracted, claiming it was extracted under duress ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, a court said on Tuesday – roughly $85 for each day he was ...

Born in 1949, the boxer grew up poor in the segregated American South, before dropping out of junior high school and using his size and fists in street robberies. He would later write he was ...

But at 16 he signed up for the Job Corps, where he got his GED and learned carpentry and bricklaying. During that time he also began training as a boxer. “I went into boxing at the age of 17 to lose ...

Marat Grigorian is ready to bring the fire to Tokyo as he prepares to face Japanese kickboxing star Kaito Ono at ONE 172. The Armenian powerhouse is no stranger to the bright lights, and he ...