Najai Turpin, a 23-year-old middleweight boxer from Philadelphia and a contestant on NBC’s upcoming reality series “The Contender,” has committed suicide, Philadelphia police said Tuesday. Turpin died ...

NBC avoided a first-round knockout Monday with its unscripted foray into the boxing ring, but “The Contender” will need to pack more of a ratings punch if it’s going to come close to justifying its ...

Fans of NBC’s “The Contender” can become matchmakers for a series of fights before the big finale later this month. There’s a catch, though. The fights will be shown only on the Internet. Mark Burnett ...

NBC’s long-awaited boxing reality series, “The Contender,” was no ratings champ Monday. The series, from “Survivor” producer Mark Burnett and featuring Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leonard ...

Mark Burnett has fashioned a winner out of "The Contender," bringing a humanity to the sweet science that has been long lost. More than "The Apprentice" with boxing gloves, "The Contender" is warm and ...

‘The Contender” didn’t score a knockout Monday night, but the much-hyped NBC reality series isn’t on the ropes, either. The show, which whittles a field of 16 boxers down to two – who will fight for ...

Sixteen boxers move into a training facility to compete in the Contender tournament; two fighters have a verbal altercation outside the ring; the two teams choose fighters to represent them in the ...