Boxer Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker fights by one motto: You cannot hit what you cannot catch. During his career he won the 1984 Olympic gold medal and six professional titles in four weight classes. Whitaker, however, is best known for the fights he...

"Con todos ustedes el campeón del mundo; Pernell Whitaker ..." Era la primera vez que el General venía a Madrid y, que yo recuerde, fue también la última. Le colocaron enfrente una víctima propiciatoria a quien bailó en el Palacio de los Deportes,...

CHANDLER, Ariz. -- The air has been sucked out of the sagging white tent where Pernell Whitaker is working. It is high noon and hot in the way it can get in Arizona, even in winter. It is the kind of heat that stands...

Roberto Duran, a world champion in four weight divisions over a career that spanned five decades, and Olympic gold medalist Pernell Whitaker, another four-division champion, were voted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame on Thursday.Duran and Whitaker were chosen from the modern era, along...

Roberto Duran turned his "hands of stone" into palms raised skyward in thanks for a remarkable boxing career."I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming...