The question has puzzled doctors since the days Joe Louis ruled the heavyweight division and boxing rivaled baseball as the biggest sport in the nation: Why do some fighters suffer brain damage from ...

LAS VEGAS – The question has puzzled doctors since the days Joe Louis ruled the heavyweight division and boxing rivaled baseball as the biggest sport in the nation: Why do some fighters suffer brain ...

Chris Arreola (36-4-1, 31 KOs) of Escondido, Calif., will go into Saturday night’s nationally televised fight against Travis Kauffman (30-1, 22 KOs) of Reading, Penn., with every intention of landing ...

Michael Finney started boxing when he was 9 years old. Now, 15 years later, he's a professional boxer with more than 150 fights under his belt. He fears that those years in the ring have taken a toll ...

ALBANY >> About one-third of professional mixed martial arts matches end in knockout or technical knockout, indicating a higher incidence of brain trauma than boxing or other martial arts, according ...

Common sense would suggest the more a person gets hit in the head, the more likely that person could suffer from a brain disease later in life. A yearlong study of 78 boxers and mixed martial arts ...

The risk and nature of injury in the sport of boxing has generated a great deal of controversy in the medical community, especially in relation to youth boxing. A new study, conducted by researchers ...

A new study by the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health could ultimately let professional fighters know when they should hang up their gloves or suffer permanent brain damage. The result ...

Longtime Muhammad Ali promoter Bob Arum discusses Ali's battle with Parkinson's disease and reveals his regret that Ali did not retire officially from boxing sooner. This is an excerpt of WSJ's Lee ...

While boxing is a famous solitary sport, ultimately boiling down to a competition between two individual competitors, the ...

The question has puzzled doctors since the days Joe Louis ruled the heavyweight division. Why do some fighters suffer brain damage from punches absorbed in the ring while others get hit in the head ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ALBANY, N.Y. — About one-third of professional mixed martial arts matches end in knockout or technical knockout, indicating a higher incidence of brain ...