There’s nothing new about women’s boxing. Flipping though my copy of Boxiana: Sketches of Pugilism, a collection of Pierce Egan’s boxing journalism from the years 1812-1824,...
The archetype of a boxing writer is some hardboiled guy brimming with cynicism and chomping on a cigar. But that description only goes so far. Guys...
Ken Burns’ latest documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, airs tonight, Monday, and tomorrow night, Tuesday, January 17-18, 9:00-11:00 p.m. ET, on...
Brian Adams is a man of many talents. He was a fine boxer. He is a fine writer. He is a fine commentator. Born in Queens,...
Boxing collects black eyes the way a philatelist collects stamps. Yet the world would have us believe that in the collective known as sport, boxing is...
When people used to say “shake the hand which shook the hand which shook the hand of The Great John L.” it really meant something. During...
Former welterweight, junior middleweight and middleweight champion Emile Griffith punched his way into the Boxing Hall of Fame. Griffith was born on February 3, 1938 in...
Prizefighters, no matter their religion, change their Christian names, the names they had at birth, into something suited to a hands-on profession. Nicknames, sobriquets, ring monikers,...
Antonio Tarver got to Roy Jones first. Glen Johnson got to Roy Jones second. And now the men who beat the man who beat the man...
Sal Musumeci's Final Forum and matchmaker Sampson Lewkowicz brought boxing to Brooklyn’s Russian émigré community in Brighton Beach Saturday night. The seven bout card played to...