In the late winter, the West Virginia Toughman Contest has brought amateur boxing action to Huntington for nearly four ...

More than 100 area men and women signed up to compete this year for the single-elimination style boxing tournament.

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 ...

The opening night of the 38th annual Original Toughman Contest featured a couple of former Wyoming East basketball players. David Carte made his first appearance in the Toughman Contest, and R.J.

BAY CITY, MI — Art Dore has an appreciation for elegance, class and style. His attire of choice is a tuxedo, after all. But he decided long ago that there's a time to strip all of that away and let ...

Boxing announcer Mark Beiro has called scores of professional and amateur fights in his career, but he refuses to be ringside at Toughman bouts. The competitions, pitting inexperienced fighters ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jason Pyles is a 330-pound plumber from Mount Pleasant, Mich., who climbed into the ring there last January in a Toughman bout. In both the second and third rounds, his opponent, Scott Wood, told the ...

TOO TOUGH: Amateur fighters square off in an Original Toughman bout. When the Original Toughman competition comes to the Statehouse Convention Center Friday and Saturday, it will bring controversy.