Boxing

Coach David Golani's Method: Boxing Prepared Differently

From Soviet roots to international rings: How Israeli boxing coach David Golani revolutionized fight preparation with a novel cognitive-tactical method.

How an Israeli coach's revolutionary training method turned eleven rounds of experience into a German boxing title.
Tel Aviv Vice Mayor Guy Avner challenges NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani to a boxing match. August 3, 2026.

Tel Aviv Deputy Mayor Guy Avner challenges NYC Mayor Mamdani to charity boxing event

 Israeli fighter Ahavat HaShem Gordon after he defeated Turkish opponent Ali Kuyuncu at UTMA 17 after Kuyuncu declared a forfeit in the second round.

Sorry, ladies: Israeli breakout fighter Ahavat Hashem Gordon is already taken, and engaged

ISRAELI MUAY Thai fighter, Ahavat Hashem Gordon, seen with an Israeli flag following his win on February 21, 2026.

Turkish boxer attacks Israeli opponent before fight, Israeli wins in two rounds


A new podcast chronicles the little-known stories of boxers from the Holocaust era

Bonder envisions each season of “Holocaust Histories,” which is serialized and debuted last week, will focus on a different theme.

 Tunisian Jewish boxer Victor Perez, left, is featured on the new podcast "Holocaust Histories."

‘The Survivor’: The long road to bring Harry Haft's story to the screen

In an interview, business partners and friends Matti Leshem and Joel Greenberg spoke about the long journey to get this story to the screen and why they persisted against heavy odds.

 A SCENE FROM ‘The Survivor,’ the true story of boxer Harry Haft.

UK boxer stirs controversy for Valentine's Day trip to Auschwitz

2-time world bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell, in since-deleted posts, shared pictures of him and his girlfriend smiling and seemingly happy visiting the infamous Nazi death camp.

 Entrance gate at Auschwitz concentration camp

Former boxing champ Yuri Foreman is now the ‘Vegan Boxing Rabbi’

Former boxer Yuri Foreman is planning a boxing comeback – only this time, he's an ordained Rabbi.

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Philippine boxing star Manny Pacquiao running for president

Despite his popularity, one of the greatest boxers of all time trails the front-runners in opinion polls.

 Manny Pacquiao is pictured before the start of a world welterweight championship bout against Yordenis Ugas at T-Mobile Arena. Aug 21, 2021; Las Vegas, Nevada

Racing Mindset Gives David Roberts an Edge in MMA and Boxing


Boxing legend Marvelous Marvin Hagler dies age 66

He is widely regarded as one of the best of all time, and arguably the best middleweight of all time.

Former boxing world champion Marvin Hagler of the US waves before a WBA Middleweight World Championship match between Gennadiy Golovkin of Kazakhstan and Nobuhiro Ishida of Japan in Monte Carlo, early March 31, 2013.

Leon Spinks, former world heavyweight champion who beat Ali, dies at 67

Spinks passed away after a long battle with cancer with only a few close friends and family present due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Former professional boxer and heavyweight champion Leon Spinks poses as he arrives at the 13th annual ESPY Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood July 13, 2005.

COVID forces Haim Gozali, Israeli MMA fighter, out of retirement

Gozali, who was the first Israeli MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter to do battle at Madison Square Garden, will make his bare-knuckle fighting debut on February 5 in Tampa, Florida.

HAIM GOZALI will make his debut fighting with his bare knuckles on February 5

Palestinian girls compete in a rare Gaza boxing contest

Hala Ayoub, 15, said she hoped the contest would show people that boxing is not only a man's sport.

A Palestinian boxing coach, Osama Ayob, trains a girl at the sidewalk of a beach as sports clubs are closed due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Gaza City May 21, 2020.