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NAC strives for improvement

As long as there is boxing and judges are used to determine the outcome of fights, controversy will be just one head-scratching scorecard away.

After 35 years, Norton’s epic loss to Holmes still packs ferocious punch

When most people think of the boxer Ken Norton, who lived out his final years in Henderson and died there last week, they probably think of his cross-armed, crab-like style of coming forward that gave some of the greatest heavyweights of his generation — of all time, really — major fits. Or they think of him breaking Muhammad Ali’s jaw at decrepit San Diego Sports Arena in the first installment of their indelible trilogy.

Smith wants to defend belt on home turf

Now that he has a championship belt, Ishe Smith wants to defend it in front of his hometown fans.

Ex-boxing champion Camacho wounded

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Former world boxing champion Hector “Macho” Camacho was shot in the face as he sat in a car outside the Puerto Rican capital Tuesday, and doctors said he was in serious condition but expected to survive.

Mayweather sentenced to 90 days for battery

A Clark County prosecutor and investigator went to California earlier this year to meet with Josie Harris, the longtime on-again, off-again girlfriend of champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.