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Andy Lee, the Irish middleweight looking to get back on the big stage for another crack at a crown, has an Off-Broadway gig, of sorts, tonight. The 28-year-old, who was a protege of the late sage Emanuel Steward, meets Darryl Cunningham atop a Lou Di...

A little of this and a little of that from the boxing world: • Middleweight contender Andy Lee (29-2, 20 KOs), 28, of Ireland, gets back in action May 15 on promoter Lou DiBella's Broadway Boxing card at B.B. King Blues Club in New Yor...

Yes, 2012 is in the books, but beyond last week's daily annual awards for fighter, knockout, round, prospect and fight of the year, I handed out some additional hardware on Wednesday. And now, here is Part 2: Most important business development: T...

It has been a tough year for middleweight contender Andy Lee. In June, he challenged then-titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for his world title but was stopped in the seventh round. In October, Emanuel Steward -- Lee's trainer, mentor and dear frien...

After captivating Sin City and Broadway, Mike Tyson is taking his sometimes-painfully personal one-man show national to aid at-risk kids and, perhaps, to help mend his own soul.

Johnathon Banks was supposed to be the next step for heavyweight prospect Seth Mitchell on the road to a title fight, but Banks tripped him up in a stirring knockout upset Saturday in Atlantic City, N.J.

The decision was one that nobody at HBO wanted to have to make, but it was necessary in the wake of Emanuel Steward's death last month. Besides training fighters, Steward worked as an analyst on HBO telecasts for about a decade, calling fights on ...

Heavyweight Seth Mitchell didn't grow up around boxing like Johnathon Banks, his opponent on Saturday night (HBO, 10 ET/PT) at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., did. Mitchell was a high school football star and then a linebacker at Michigan S...

The boxing world has had a tough run of late, with so many bold-faced and beloved names leaving the realm. Emanuel Steward, the Hall of Fame trainer, died on Oct. 25 and leaves a void that won't be filled, because his personality was a rare one. He b...

While training Wladimir Klitschko for his last fight, Banks found the time to prepare for his fight Saturday against Seth Mitchell.

Hall of Fame trainer Emanuel Steward was celebrated by boxing royalty and the Queen of Soul at a star-studded memorial service Tuesday in the Motor City.

Wladimir Klitschko missed longtime trainer Emanuel Steward, who passed away last month, in Saturday's bout with Mariusz Wach. But after learning all his lessons well, the champ stood tall on his own.

After Wladimir Klitschko lost his trainer and friend Emanuel Steward only weeks ago, the heavyweight champ mourns but moves forward with a familiar Steward protégé, Johnathon Banks, for Saturday's fight.

The boxing world continues to mourn the passing of Hall of Fame trainer and HBO broadcaster Emanuel Steward, who died on Thursday at age 68. There has been an outpouring of good words for a man who was beloved by people in the boxing business as w...

It was too late by the time I arrived at the Montgomery County Boys Club — I'd just missed a historic gym war between two boxers who would eventually be enshrined in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Thomas Hearns was still in the ring hav...

Emanuel Steward Through The Years