Their last bout ended in controversy, and now the May 19 rematch between D.C. boxing phenom Lamont Peterson and Amir Khan may not even happen—ESPN is reporting that Peterson tested positive for synthetic testosterone after a test conducted in early March. more ›

After months of out-of-the-ring sparring over the result of their last bout, D.C. native Lamont Peterson and Amir Khan will battle it out again on May 19 in Las Vegas. more ›

D.C. native Lamont Peterson might be fighting again soon, but it might not be against anyone unfamiliar. more ›

Instead of trading right hooks in the ring, Lamont Peterson and Amir Khan have been trading verbal jabs in the press since their December bout ended in a controversial win for the D.C. native. more ›

When local boxer Lamont Peterson brought home the world's super lightweight boxing championship after a fight in the Washington Convention Center in December, it was big news. But the news that he might be faced with a rematch against Amir Khan because of allegations of fight-time shenanigans is bigger. more ›

You could probably be forgiven for having missed what Post columnist Mike Wise is calling the local sports story of the year -- it's been 18 years since the last boxing championship took place in D.C., after all. more ›

Legendary boxer Joe Frazier died last night. And just like any time a athlete of Frazier's caliber passes on, stories about his life and remembrances of his accomplishments are ubiquitous. But our favorite comes from a local source. more ›

21-year-old D.C. native Tyrieshia Douglas, who spent some of her youth in Washington's foster care system and picked up boxing at age 16, wants to represent the United States at the Olympics in 2012. Paging Mike Panetta! more ›

Boxing movies have been around nearly as long as movies themselves. The sweet science just lends itself to the cinematic treatment: all that physical conflict sets up nicely as a mirror to narrative conflict, and the rising action of the story parallels the intense training and building strength of a fighter preparing for a fight. It's a visceral, versatile combination that heightens the dramatic impact of any basic story. And in the hands of a skilled director, the controlled violence of the ring can be turned into a bludgeoning ballet of sweat, blood, and chiselled muscle. more ›

Keely Thompson, a former professional boxer who had established an anti-gang and anti-drug youth boxing center in Columbia Heights, was arrested on Thursday and charged with stealing more than half a million dollars from the center's coffers. Thompson, the executive director of Keely's District Boxing and Youth Center which, at one point, was located at 1459 Columbia Road NW, had accepted more than $1.4 million in District funds since 2004 on behalf of the center. In addition to taking an increasing salary each year, Thompson is alleged to have used hundreds of thousands of those dollars to go on gambling trips to Atlantic City and other non-business purposes. more ›

“Choose your enemies carefully, ‘cause they will define you,” the adage goes. Muhammad Ali doesn’t have a lot of enemies anymore — 28 years after his last professional fight, and 25 after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he remains among the most beloved figures in American public life. more ›

Take one name off the list of Olympic athletes with ties to the D.C. area. The Associated Press via ESPN.com is reporting that 20-year-old boxer Gary Russell Jr., who was born right here in D.C. and lives in Capitol Heights, Md., collapsed in Beijing while trying to make weight, and will no longer be competing in the Olympic games. more ›

When Tony "The Tiger" Thompson enters the ring in Hamburg, Germany on Saturday, he will be fighting for his family and his future, but he won't be fighting because of any love of the sport. From the Post:

I really don't like to train for boxing. I'm just good at it. It's what I do to make a living. If I had my choices of making a living, I'm not one of those people who would say boxing. ... Boxing was so far down the list for me.

It sounds like — if you’ll pardon the expression — something out of a movie: Junior Middleweight Champion fighter Kassim “The Dream” Ouma escapes the darkest of pasts to find his way from Africa to America, arrives penniless and unable to speak English, and within a year he’s a professional fighter with a surrogate family, money in his pockets, and a smile on his face that makes you like him before you know anything about him. more ›

Via Boxing Along the Beltway, we have learned that another D.C. athlete has become a blogger. Boxer Tony "The Tiger" Thompson has started blogging in preparation for his July 12 fight with Wladimir Klitschko for the IBO, IBF, and WBO Heavyweight Championship Belts. Well, kinda. It looks like he is sending out letters to some boxing outlets. They are blog posts, but he doesn't have them on a blog of his own, or at least one that I can find. Here is his first entry. In it, he travels to Germany and Ukraine to promote the fight, and contemplates telling Klitschko, "I must break you." more ›

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: The Great Punch-Out: A Hard Hitting Week of Boxing at the Pickford Theater Those of you with an interest in the pugilistic arts may want to camp out at the Library of Congress next week. The library is doing a series of boxing features, shorts, and classic fights that lasts all week long. There's a... more ›

Written by DCist Contributor Charles Gray As a boxer, Washington D.C. native Tony "The Tiger" Thompson suffers from a number of unpardonable sins. First, he fights left handed. In an effort avoid the "southpaw jinx," most boxers decide not to fight lefties. Second, the adjectives most often used to describe Thompson's fighting style are "awkward" and "defensive." The old boxing adage is that styles make fights -- the public is hardly clamoring for an awkward... more ›

The Wizards and Capitals are on summer vacation. The only Redskins news prominently features Ron Mexico and is not related to sports at all (well, human sports anyway). Despite these non-developments, this weekend has some intriguing aspects regarding actual Washington sports. >> Boxing comes to the District as the brothers Peterson square off in co-featured bouts at the D.C. Armory. Lamont and Anthony Peterson are a combined 42-0 with 25 knockouts between them. Anthony will... more ›

Welcome back, Washington. You're probably still busy with Holiday merriment, but we're here working hard for you. Err... rather, we'll be posting today between yelling at football games and re-heating the Christmas roast beast. Also worth noting is the beginning of Kwanzaa and observance of Boxing Day. While Kwanzaa is mainly an American week of celebration, we have special envy of Boxing Day, a holiday virtually everywhere else in the English-speaking world. It's a whole... more ›

When Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Ian Hunter, Son Volt, and Calexico make a record to save your life, you’ve achieved icon status in the music world. Yet despite his performing in bands since the '70s and solo since the early '90s, Texas-native Alejandro Escovedo is hardly a household name for those who appreciate roots music. And he rarely sells out East Coast shows. But things are changing. Over the course of the past several months,... more ›

Adding to the already crowded roster of mayoral candidates, Michael A. Brown, a lobbyist and the son of the late Clinton-era Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, today told the Washington Times that he would formally announce his candidacy for the city's top job next month. more ›