Algeria’s first action movie features Mike Tyson
According to the people responsible for promoting the new movie Gates of the Sun (Algeria Forever), an action film has never before been produced in Algeria. The first venture into […]
Najib works double duty chasing championships
Not every professional athlete is a millionaire. Some of them aren’t even hundred-thousand-aires. Some of them, in fact, still hold “regular” jobs in order to make a living until bigger […]
Amir Khan to open halal steak house chain
While he waits his turn for a career-defining fight — and major payday — against Floyd Mayweather Jr. or Manny Pacquiao, two-time world champion boxer Amir Khan is making business […]
Bernard Hopkins ranked second-best over 40
A new list of old boxers ranks Muslim American multi-division champion Bernard Hopkins the second-best fighter over 40 years old in the sport’s long history. Jarrett Zook of Boxing.com put […]
Amir Khan speaks out against radical Islam
Amir Khan, the reigning WBC Silver Welterweight champion and 2014’s British boxer of the year according to at least one columnist, has become the world’s most outspoken Muslim athlete on […]
Khan’s boxing academy will fight the good fight
Nothing can move you quite like seeing it in person. Almost immediately after the Dec. 16 massacre of a reported 150 people at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan by gunmen […]
Q&A with journalist Ismael AbduSalaam
In the sports world, “hustle” means more than diving to recover a fumble or booking it from first base to third with a headfirst slide. And the word “hustler” doesn’t […]
Amir Khan donates $47K shorts to Peshawar school
Less than a week after one of the biggest victories of his boxing career, former light-welterweight world champion and Olympic silver medalist Amir Khan experienced a profound sense of loss. […]
Shumenov takes on first fight since Hopkins
The light-heavyweight title fight between Bernard Hopkins and Beibut Shumenov on April 19 was unique for a couple of reasons: First there was Hopkins, at 49 years old, attempting to […]
Inside the ring with referee Kamal Hasan
In his paid profession as a paralegal and in his side gig as a boxing referee, Kamal Hasan thrives in environments where maintaining order among fierce competitors is imperative. His […]
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