There are two ways of looking at Don King. There was a day when the former Cleveland street hustler was the pre-eminent boxing promoter in the...
Top Rank was at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, New York, tonight with a 5-bout card that had to be refashioned after both...
In boxing, more than any other sport, feel-good-stories are prone to turn rancid. The Michael Carbajal story is a prime example. In 1988, the city of...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 170: Looking Back at a Great 2021 We, who love the sport of boxing, just witnessed one of the greatest 12 months of...
Arne’s Almanac: Introducing Would-Be ‘Cinderella Man’ Steve Geffrard and More In boxing, one man’s misfortune is another man’s opportunity. British light heavyweight Callum Johnson relished the...
In theory, a victory over Filip Hrgovic would translate into a lucrative date with IBF/WBA/WBC world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk. The IBF has decreed that Hrgovic’s...
Bob Halloran was 87 years old when he passed away on Sunday, Jan. 2, in Rancho Mirage, California. With him, another remnant of the Muhammad Ali...
My first order of business when I get up in the morning — and I’m sure this is true of most boxing writers – is to...
Here is the second and final installment of our annual year-end report in which we pay homage to those for whom the final bell tolled. July...
In our annual year-end necrology, we say goodbye to those that left their mark on the noble but too-often unforgiving sport of boxing. Many of the...
Last year, British boxing was left to sink or swim on its own. While the British government could not wait to line up lucrative support packages...
In boxing’s strange and curious year of One-Hit Wonders, it makes perfect sense that The Sweet Science’s 2021 Fighter of the Year is the busiest bee...
Tyson Fury defeated Deontay Wilder so thoroughly in their second encounter that a third meeting seemed superfluous. An arbitrator, retired federal judge Daniel Weinstein, made it...
On December 14, Thammanoon Niyomtrong, aka Knockout CP Freshmart, successfully defended his WBA minimumweight title for the tenth time with a fifth-round stoppage of Robert Paradero,...
For the third consecutive year, TSS recognizes Eddy Reynoso of Mexico as the most successful trainer in the world of prizefighting. He is our Trainer of...
The running joke is that Eddie Hearn has never turned down an interview in his professional capacity as a boxing promoter. Watch Hearn work a teeming...
Harry Reid passed away yesterday afternoon, Dec. 28, at age 82 after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. During a career in politics that spanned six...
Xander Zayas is the 2021 TSS Prospect of the Year Let’s start by establishing the criteria for a “prospect.” I would suggest using this barometer to...
Sandor Martin Fashioned the 2021 TSS Upset of the Year When Mikey Garcia moved up two weight classes to challenge IBF world welterweight champion Errol Spence...
Efe Ajagba Forged the 2021 TSS Knockout of the Year A Knockout of the Year, by my criteria, has four elements: (1) suddenness, as in unexpected,...
