Ryan Freeman is a man who packs a mean punch. That’s because of the training he’s endured to compete in The Toughman Contest, an amateur boxing competition that pits novice fighters against each other ...

- Art Dore has asked the question a million times. He's asked businessmen and blue-collar men, contract negotiators and construction workers, world-class boxers and bar-room brawlers. The crux of a ...

TAMPA, Fla. – A woman died Tuesday after being pummeled in an amateur boxing bout, and police opened an investigation into the fight. "We are trying to determine the criminality of it," police ...

BAY CITY, MI — Art Dore knew Toughman would take off in Bay City because his riverside community had a boatload of butt-kickers. Now, nearly 35 years after its inception, Dore is trying to introduce ...

BAY CITY, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toughman Contest, one of the most exciting and controversial combat sporting brands of all time, seeks a return to the limelight with a professional version of its ...

In the wake of Tuesday's tragic death of Stacy Young, fatally injured during Saturday's Original Toughman Contest at Robarts Arena, a distinction must be made. The fighters wore gloves, yes, and with ...

Fort Myers - Toughman boxing returned to Florida Friday night with a bevy of doctors and referees and about 40 nervous fighters. It’s the first such event since a 30-year-old woman was killed in a ...

After the death of a Bradenton woman who fought in a Toughman boxing match, the American College of Sports Medicine on Wednesday urged lawmakers to demand better safety standards for the ...

TAMPA - The death of a 30-year-old woman injured in a Toughman boxing competition she'd entered on an impulse sparked a police investigation Tuesday and renewed calls among boxing experts for a ban on ...

The family of a woman killed in a Toughman boxing event sued the event’s promoter and others Monday, calling the matches a “barbaric, vicious, unregulated, bloody slugfest.” A Sarasota man seriously ...

SARASOTA - Police said Monday they will not charge an amateur boxing promoter in the death of a 30-year-old mother of two who was beaten into a coma during a Toughman competition. Promoter Art Dore ...