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By Jason Pribila: Floyd Mayweather Jr. returned to the ring following a 21-month hiatus in an attempt to reclaim his crown as boxing’s best fighter pound for pound. He chose Juan Manuel Marquez, a natural junior lightweight, as his opponent. 
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By Jason Pribila: The city of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, USA remains cast in the industrial shadow that forged its identity. The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was once the second-largest steel producer in the United States. Only the iconic blast furnaces remain from the once proud company that supplied metal for every bridge and tunnel that one takes when entering and leaving Manhattan.
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By Jason Pribila: Due to some scheduling conflicts and a battle with the worst cold I’ve experienced since the “Blizzard of ‘94”, I have been away from live boxing and more importantly my laptop for too long. Fortunately, fellow boxing scribes have kept me entertained by reporting the buzz that will shape the sport’s second half of 2009.
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By Jason Pribila: A year ago Joey “Minnesota Ice” Abell entered the ring in the Legendary Blue Horizon on the verge of making noise in the heavyweight division. Four rounds later he was knocked out by Andrew Greeley. He tried to pick up the pieces by taking on the semi-retired, fully ancient Al Cole in Sweden and lost a split decision. Abell capped off a horrific 2008 by being disqualified for hitting Jason Nicholson, after he was already knocked down.
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By Jason Pribila: At one time an Olympic Gold Medal was an American fighter’s introduction to the world. The moment when a camera zoomed on a fighter’s face when the medal was placed around his neck was often the equivalent of being handed a blank check. Andre Ward is the only American to capture gold during the last two Olympic Games, but it has yet to translate to gold around his waist or in his bank account.
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By Jason Pribila: Many of this week’s boxing headlines and feature articles will be about whether or not Mexican boxing legend, Marco Antonio Barrera, should walk away after suffering a technical decision loss to Amir Khan.
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By Jason Pribila: Nineteen is an age when people experience many firsts. For the majority of those that I grew up with, it was the age that we found ourselves living away from home for the first time. For most that meant enrolling into college, and trusting that the motivation and discipline we learned as youths would carry us through the next level of our maturation process.
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By Jason Pribila: On Saturday night Kelly Pavlik returned home. Home to defend his middleweight championship, and home to defend his blue-collar town of Youngstown, Ohio. After nine one-sided rounds, order was restored, and Pavlik returned to his winning ways.
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By Jason Pribila: There is a natural lull between the end of the NFL Season (Super Bowl) and Opening Day of Major League Baseball for both American sports fans and writers. In order to help male sports fans get through this period of withdrawal, Sports Illustrated created its annual Swimsuit Edition in 1964.
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By Jason Pribila: Two members of the Israeli Army joined forces to headline boxing’s return to the Legendary Blue Horizon in Philadelphia, USA on Friday night. Undefeated Cruiserweight, Ran Nakash, and junior welterweight, Elad Shmouel, each scored 2nd round TKOs to the joy of the crowd of their adopted home.
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By Jason Pribila: In June of 2000, I found myself at an engagement party for a couple that never quite made it to the altar. What made the day memorable was that I convinced the not-to-be bride’s father to allow me to purchase that evening’s Pay Per View between Oscar De La Hoya and “Sugar” Shane Mosley.
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By Jason Pribila at ringside: Top Rank Inc. and Golden Promotions put together a seven fight undercard in support of Saturday’s welterweight boxing world title fight between Antonio Margarito and “Sugar “ Shane Mosley. During Thursday’s press conference each promoter took the time to single out a fighter from each of their stables. Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (Golden Boy) and Russian Olympian, Matvey Korobov (Top Rank).
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By Jason Pribila in Los Angeles: Top Rank Inc. and Golden Boy Promotions have put together a six fight undercard with the hopes of getting the STAPLES Center rocking long before the HBO cameras begin to roll.
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By Jason Pribila in Los Angeles: The weigh-in for Antonio Margarito vs. Shane Mosley was supposed to take place outside at the Nokia Plaza, located across the street from the Staples Center. Rain forced the fighters, scales, and fans indoors; but did not dampen the spirit of those that chose to witness the fighters clear their final hurdles before meeting in the boxing ring on Saturday night.
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By Jason Pribila in Los Angeles: Prior to the Antonio Margarito-Shane Mosley boxing press conference on Thursday at the Staples Center, Margarito’s promoter Bob Arum said that he planned to fly to the Philippines to speak with his boxer Manny Pacquiao.
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By Jason Pribila in Los Angeles: The final press conference for Saturday’s WBA welterweight boxing title fight between Antonio Margarito and “Sugar” Shane Mosley took place Thursday afternoon inside the Staples Center. Promoters, sponsors, trainers, and the fighters themselves took their turns on the microphone and despite being so close to fight night, the overall feeling expressed was that of joy.
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By Jason Pribila On May 28th Thomas Hauser let boxing fans behind the curtain, and behind the scenes of “HBO: 2008”. He intimately detailed how the decisions by HBO’s current leadership were adversely affecting the sport as a whole. Mr. Hauser wrote, “Part of the problem is that HBO is no longer building fighters the way it once did because it tries to televise the biggest names, not the best fighters and fights.”
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By Jason Pribila To say that the Pay-Per-View numbers were disappointing would be an understatement. Top Rank’s Bob Arum, chose not to sugar coat the numbers when he spoke to ESPN.com. “The Pay-Per-View numbers sucked. It did only about 190,000. It’s very disappointing.”
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By Jason Pribila “Sugar” Shane Mosley returned to the ring on Saturday Night, 11 months since his hard fought loss to Miguel Cotto. Mosley was the favorite to return to his winning ways when he took on Nicaraguan Wildman, Ricardo Mayorga.
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By Jason Pribila: The month of August has been a slow time for the sport of boxing. There haven’t been any major fight cards, and other than ESPN2 and Telefutura, the TV dial has been boxing free. Die-hards have been able to follow Olympic Boxing on CNBC. However, a confusing scoring system that rewards fighters for running could do more harm than good for the sport’s potential growth.
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By Jason Pribila: Northeast Boxing was formed over 10 years ago by co-owners Chris Coyne and Maury Nehme with one simple goal in mind, “Make Fight Nights a popular father-son bonding experience in Northeast Pennsylvania.”
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By Jason Pribila: On the First Saturday of May 2007, the sport of boxing found itself in an unfamiliar place. It had once again captured the attention of the mainstream media. “The World Awaits” was labeled by some as, “the bout that would save boxing”, as It featured the sport’s most popular fighter, Oscar De La Hoya, against its best, Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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