World Boxing Council

Billy Costello Former WBC light welterweight boxing champ Billy Costello, 55, a former WBC light welterweight boxing champion who won his first 30 professional fights, died of lung cancer Wednesday at a hospital in his hometown of Kingston, N.Y., said...

LOS ANGELES - He was knocked down in the first round, bloodied in the second round, bruised under both eyes by the fifth round and seemed finished in the seventh. Despite looking beaten and battered a minute into the seventh round, Vanes “...

LOS ANGELES — With a packed luncheon and press conference Wednesday at the Wilshire Grand Los Angeles and a weigh-in to follow Friday at Staples Center's Star Plaza, the countdown has begun for Vanes "Nightmare" Martirosyan's much-anticipated...

Marianna Tcherkassky, a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre who has partnered with Mikhail Baryshnikov, will be a judge at this year's World Ballet Competition. The ballet contest, which takes place in Orlando each year, begins Monday,...

To the editor: The Supreme Court of the United States ought to be commended for its recent decision in Snyder v. Phelps. The Court affirmed the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) has the right to protest the...

State Police say they have not received any official word that the Westboro Baptists will in fact protest the funeral for the seven Clouse children killed in a farmhouse fire last week. "Our intelligence and investigative inquires lead us to believe that...

The Westboro Baptist Church will picket the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Greene, one of the victims of Saturday's massacre at Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' event in Tucson, Arizona. According to their website, the group plans to attend the...

GLENDALE — According to the game plan publicly laid out by his camp on Thursday, Glendale-based light middleweight Vanes "Nightmare" Martirosyan will go from his longest-ever layoff between fights to the quickest turnaround since the earliest stages...

SOUTHWEST GLENDALE — Since Glendale Fighting Club proprietor and head trainer Edmond Tarverdyan officially joined Vanes "Nightmare" Martirosyan's training camp earlier this year, the latter's public presence in his hometown of Glendale has risen...

As the bell tower at North Central College rang to signal the six o’clock hour, sociology major Elizabeth Micheletti had a problem. The crowd she …...

Even though the original inspiration for their demonstration never showed, a group of North Central College students still raised funds and would like to see …...

Sports is never-ending debate about best, worst and greatest of all-time. FOXsports.com columnist Mark Kriegel wrote an intriguing article about boxer Manny Pacquiao and suggests that he is the greatest current athlete....