Around Johnny Tocco’s Ringside Gym, there was always an odd job to do. There were floors to sweep and vacuum, blood-and-spit-soaked buckets to dump and the occasional infestation of Japanese beetles ...

Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Damage in Boxing by Tris Dixon (Hamilcar Publications) is an important book. In 1928, a doctor named Dr. Harrison Martland wrote an essay titled "Punch Drunk" that ...

Brain damage occurs in boxers and mixed martial arts fighters alike, but it unfolds differently as these athletes age, a new study finds. Among current fighters, the loss of brain volume results from ...

Jose Torres, a 61-year-old former light-heavyweight champion, will never forget the first time he was "shaken up," boxers' term for a kind of out-of-body sensation that can result from a particularly ...

Magomed Abdusalamov, his family and lawyer Paul Edelstein have settled lawsuits against both the state and several physicians on hand at the Madison Square Garden fight. But they've also pushed ...

MISSOULA - Montana has settled a 2005 lawsuit with a Missoula boxer who sued the promoters and regulators of a fight that left him brain-damaged. Nate "Irish" Riley says the Board of Athletics within ...