“We’re all mad here.” When the bell rang to begin the tenth round on June 7 at Madison Square Garden, Miguel Cotto headed out from his...
This first ran in April 2012… Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez is the middleweight king. Five other so-called champions sit on waiting room chairs in the offices of...
A red tear trickled down Paulie Malignaggi’s cheek in the fourth round Saturday night. I saw it after the first knockdown when he got up to...
Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along. —Gwendolyn Brooks Anyone looking for Aaron Wade in the early 1970s could find...
When Aaron Wade left San Francisco in 1945, he left behind a son and a pregnant wife. “He didn’t want to be a family man,” Jenny...
Chuck Burroughs’ sixty years in the Peoria, Illinois boxing scene began in the crowded backseat of Jack Beaty’s reo. A Golden Gloves champion who later became...
Little Tiger Wade never fought in San Francisco again. He turned up in New York on August 11, 1945 at Madison Square Garden. Fifteen thousand watched...
Until the middle of World War II, San Francisco was among the most integrated cities in the United States. Unlike Chicago and other big cities, there...
The Little Tiger’s ring mayhem made managers shy. When the calls got thin, Wade had that trouble familiar to most of us when we’re young and...
By the summer of 1939, Aaron “Little Tiger” Wade was regularly knocking down white men for pay. Chuck Vickers was one of them, and he had...