They had hoped for a fight that would establish an undisputed heavyweight champion and lead to a rebirth of big-time boxing in the state.

Las Vegas is at once the last refuge of big-time boxing and a vivid symbol of its decline.

Harry McKee, a 28-year-old social worker from Cleveland, isn't exactly an experienced hand in big-time amateur boxing.

Unfortunately, in big-time boxing these days, such a word is the equivalent of an expletive.

He doesn't know anything about big-time boxing.

For all the optimism, the Garden's ties to big-time boxing are mostly sentimental.

People forget the other things that go with big-time boxing.

This city is relatively new to big-time boxing, but Shane Mosley is noticed almost everywhere he goes.

Unlike in the past, the Garden stands alone as the site of big-time boxing in New York.

For the first time in two and a half years, big-time boxing returned to the Garden, and it did so with distinction.