"Kevin Barry has been telling me to fight like a big man and that's what I did."

The thing about Vegas is the untrue story seems so much more probable than the true and sport is still a mainstay of this engagingly strange city, captured in the iconic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

It was Los Angeles, almost 30 years ago. The chairs were flying through the air. So too the drinks containers. And the cussing. The air was blue. And angry red.

On the wall of Kevin Barry's gym in Rich Moriarty's house is a copy of a cheque made out by Don King to Mike Tyson.

All three Australian oval ball codes are caught up in peptide scandals, and the use of human growth hormone variants is said to be rife in boxing.

Floyd Mayweather jnr went through something of an epiphany last year while serving an 87-day jail term for domestic abuse.

Rookie professional heavyweight Joseph Parker is being lined up for his first high-visibility fight in Burbank, California, next month as a warm-up for his June bout against South African heavyweight Francois Botha.

On Monday I had lunch with a South African boxer who is known as the White Buffalo and what he had for lunch was buffalo.

Francois Botha has been in the sport too long to be unduly concerned about the Sonny Bill Williams' fight debacle in February.

Relatives and hometown supporters of boxing's first black heavyweight champion are turning to YouTube to convince President Barack Obama to posthumously pardon him of a 1913 conviction for accompanying a white woman across state lines.

Sir Robert Jones has quit as Joseph Parker's manager after clashing with promoters Duco Events over the suitability of the heavyweight boxing prodigy's opponents.

The representatives of Sonny Bill Williams and Frans Botha have reportedly agreed to a rematch in South Africa in December.