By David Feinberg, MD, MBA Boxing, like some other sports, requires participants to meet certain weight requirements. Unfortunately, our bodies don’t always co-operate with our need to achieve a desired weight. In addition to strict weight classes, coaches and trainers frequently comment on how

By Dr. Flip Homansky: I constantly hear, “steroids don’t work, and even if they did.....they wouldn’t be used in boxing.” We think of the weight lifter or the interior lineman in football as the typical user. They need the extra bulk and necessarily speed. Some think that only a boxer moving

By Margaret Goodman, MD PART I: Why do some boxers get knocked out? Is it their chin? Is it their heart? Or, is it something else, something we can’t define. Sometimes a boxer seems invincible, nothing can touch them. All of a sudden some of the household names with a great heart/great chin find

How can you prevent a knockout? By Margaret Goodman, MD The same factors that prevent a knockout are really the same factors that can produce one. We will deal with these one by one. ANATOMY/HEREDITY. This could easily be listed as “good luck.” To be fair, some people are predisposed to

By Margaret Goodman, MD The word “honesty” or the lack thereof can be life-threatening in the sport of boxing. The term “omission” often caries a less onerous tone than dishonesty. Whichever way you choose to put it, not coming forward to a boxing commission, your cornermen, trainers, or family

By Dave Tenny My name is Dave Tenny and I am a Professional Cutman. I have been in the sport of boxing for over 24 years. I learned my trade from one of the best in the business, Al Gavin. After training fighters at Gleason’s Gym in New York, I decided to become a cutman. By 1994, I had my first

by Margaret Goodman, MD As a boxing fan, how many times do you sit there and wonder WHY a doctor let a bout continue, and other times WHY they stopped the contest? As a ring doctor I, myself, wonder a great deal of the time. So, I know boxers, cornermen, and TV commentators must face the same