After watching Saturday night's successful unanimous decision defense of his WBO welterweight title by eight-division champion Manny Paquiao over five-time champion Shane Mosley, Pernell Whitaker ...

On Saturday, May 19, 1990, at Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada, one of the greatest defensive boxers in history, Pernell Whitaker successfully defended his WBC and IBF lightweight titles against the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker, an Olympic gold medalist and a world champion in four weight classes, was killed Sunday night when he was hit by a vehicle in Virginia Beach, ...

NORFOLK — This week has been an emotional roller coaster for Wanda Davis. On Friday, Davis will watch three of her sons fight on the same boxing card at Scope. The Davis brothers, who trained at ...

NORFOLK, Va. – Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker was only 20 years old when he secured his first and only gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games. Even more impressive than that, the Norfolk native had never ...

Big-time boxing has vanished from Virginia. Long gone are the days when the late Pernell Whitaker was featured as a hometown hero in the Old Dominion State. “Sweet Pea” fought 11 of his 45 career ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia -- Pernell Whitaker, an Olympic gold medalist and four division champion who was regarded as one of the greatest defensive fighters ever, has died after being hit by a car in ...

Twelve years ago, Pernell Whitaker walked into Lambert’s Point Community Center in his hometown of Norfolk, Virginia, and everyone involved in an amateur boxing card took notice. The late boxing ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Powerhouse Boxing & Kickboxing will host the first Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker Mid-Atlantic Classic July 26 at the Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Center in Norfolk. The new ...

NORFOLK — For Vanisha Whitaker, July 14 is usually a day of sadness. That was the day her uncle, Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker, died in 2019. Whitaker, a legendary world champion boxer, died after ...