This was the seventh meeting of the rival lightweights. In all previous ones McFadden held his own, making a brave stand against the colored wonder. Since...
It would be technically incorrect to state that it all began for Marvelous Marvin Hagler during his frequent working visits to Philadelphia in the mid- to...
For the middleweights, world-conquering monsters arrived early. Of the three divisions I’ve studied so far, middleweight is by far the most dangerous territory. The top 12...
Little did I know, not everyone was taught how to jab at three years old or put in boxing rings to spar other kids. Welcome to...
A Review of When Pittsburgh Was a Fight Town (2019) Roy McHugh never met Harry Greb. He was eleven when the Pittsburgh Pandemonium passed away on...
Welcome to the second TSS Quarterly Survey of 2019. Our survey question this time was “If you could have a ringside seat to any boxing event...
It ain’t business. It’s personal. Roy McHugh was a sports editor and columnist-at-large for the Pittsburgh Press until he retired in 1983. He’s a hundred and...
When Emmitt Smith passed Walter Payton to become the NFL’s career rushing leader on Oct. 27, 2002, a distinction he still holds, more than a few
In this survey we posed a hypothetical question: Suppose that there was going to be a Mount Rushmore of Boxing with the faces of four boxers...
Sometimes the story you think you’re going to write takes a swift and decisive turn, as can be the case in boxing, where the outcome of...