BISMARCK -- Olympic silver medalist and professional champion boxer Virgil Hill says he will have one last fight in North Dakota. Hill, 49, who grew up in North Dakota, said Thursday it will be a ...

Gov. Doug Burgum presented the North Dakota Rough Rider Award to Hill, fittingly, in a boxing ring in the main arena at the Bismarck Event Center, where Hill fought so many of his big bouts. Gathering ...

Virgil Hill Jr. — the son and namesake of the Hall of Fame fighter — will begin his own pro boxing career this Friday in North Dakota, according to the Minot Daily News. The younger Hill, who will ...

CANASTOTA, N.Y. - Boosted so she could reach the microphone and speak on a most special day for her late father, 7-year-old Sofia Gatti beamed. "Thank you from my dad," she said Sunday as Arturo ...

Virgil Hill brought big-time professional boxing to North Dakota. Wherever he traveled during his Hall of Fame career, he brought North Dakota along with him. On Monday, the state honored the Olympic ...

(AP) The late Arturo Gatti and five-time world champion Virgil Hill have been elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Gatti died three years ago in Brazil under mysterious circumstances. He ...

Can you believe that Virgil Quicksilver Hill just earned a piece of the WBA title the other night? And even though the boxing fraternity recognizes O’Neil Bell as the world’s true cruiserweight champ, ...

On April 25, 1998, nine months after avenging his sole professional defeat against Montell Griffin, Roy Jones Jr. was back in the ring taking on former light heavyweight and future cruiserweight ...

FARGO -- Virgil Hill was in California helping his son, Virgil Hill Jr., rehabilitate a knee injury when they found out the latter will move up to the St. Louis Cardinals Class AAA affiliate next ...

SYRACUSE — The late Arturo Gatti and five-time world champion Virgil Hill have been elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Gatti died three years ago in Brazil under mysterious ...

Virgil Hill, right, along with Gov. Doug Burgum, center, and Mark Fox, chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes, listen to speakers at Hill's induction into the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Hall of ...

(AP) Arturo Thunder Gatti didn’t live to see his finest day. Gatti, who won world championships in two different weight classes, heads the class of 2013 to be inducted into the International Boxing ...