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Seems like everyone I come across is impressed with Marcus Browne's progress as a pro thus far. The Staten island hitter, a light heavyweight, rose to 4-0 with a KO2 takeout of Taneal Goyco at Barclays on Saturday night. I asked the lefty, who rep...

Marcus Browne has the sort of personality that will take him far, if his skills keep growing at the rate they have been. He mixes confidence and self-deprecation smoothly, as when I asked the 22-year-old Staten Islander if he behaved himself during t...

No matter how his pro debut goes tonight, and I expect that he will score a KO win over his greener foe, Staten Islander Marcus Browne can be assured that one gleaming act he took part in will forever cement him as a star. Browne shot a short vide...

Sandy has been on Marcus Browne's mind -- how could it not be, since the severe storm did its best to kayo his Staten Island home base? But Browne is intent on not letting the storm surge remove him from the task he has in front of him Friday night...

Boxing gets hammered quite a bit by folks who think it is a brutal exercise reserved for throwbacks and misfits with nothing else going for them but a useful amorality. But the overwhelming majority of fighters who take part are for the most part ...

Most fight fans and pundits agree that he has talent. They see the hand speed, the ability to get angles and flurry, the desire to put a fistic stamp off finality on his foe to end the night with a satisfying climax. The majority of fans and pundi...

Puerto Rican featherweight Orlando Cruz announced to the world that he is gay on Wednesday, becoming the first practicing prizefighter to declare he is homosexual. "I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career, ...

Marcus Browne, the light heavyweight boxer from Staten Island, earned some experience at the Olympics in London. No, he didn't come home with a medal, but the 21-year-old hitter obviously showed some attributes that stood out to those in the know wit...

ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas, the sometimes trainer and all-the-time proponent of cleaning up the shadier sides of the sport, weighed in on the performances of the two New York-based boxers who took part in the London Olympics. Atlas was asked about Mari...

Jamel Herring will be fighting for many things in London when he gloves up and reps the U.S. squad at junior welterweight. He will be representing his home base of Coram, Long Island, looking to be the first Islander since Howard Davis (1976) to b...

Out of sight, out of mind. In the boxing business, if you aren't on TV, you sort of don't exist. That's why Alisher "Ali" Rahimov is trying to draw as many eyeballs as he can to prove to fight fans that he's a solid player in the lightweight division...

Oh, it would have been something if the Arab-American kid out of Canarsie went to the 2008 Olympics and came back to BK with gold around his neck. That would have been a hoot, and a great teaching moment, too, if a kid named "Sadam" won gold for the ...

A boxing writer will find himself defending his vocation quite often when making a new acquaintance. "But ... isn't boxing brutal? Do you ever find yourself wondering if it should exist?" I hear quite regularly soon after shaking a new hand. An...

Two people will be fighting in the main event of "Friday Night Fights" on Friday at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT. We know as of Tuesday night that Terrance Cauthen, who stepped in for Derek Ennis on super-short notice, because the Philly boxer came ...

Pedro Sosa fought on the streets in the Dominican Republic, and he fought on the streets of the Bronx when he moved there at age 10. Today, Sosa, 19, is fighting for his life after a car accident claimed his sister, Jennifer Sosa, and put him in a co...

When Jeremy Bates, 32, got the call to fight Evander Holyfield, Bates put aside his insurance gig to take on the 43-year-old former heavyweight champ. They'll meet in the ring Friday.