In our latest quarterly survey, we asked our respondents this question: “What famous person — living or dead — could have been a successful boxer AND...
Next month, forty years will have passed since I attended a boxing show at the Silver Slipper in Las Vegas that enriched my memory bank like...
Many count Castillo vs. Corrales (2005) as their favorite. Fans of an earlier generation were partial to Graziano vs. Zale (1947), Pep vs. Saddler (1949), DeMarco...
The discussions around which boxer possessed the best chin are endless. Names like Chuvalo, Cobb, and Hagler quickly emerge; Juan LaPorte and Kid Gavilan less so....
Most boxing careers reflect a variation of a bell-shaped curve. The downward slope on the right-hand side indicates the decline of the fighter in question. Sometimes,...
The Friends of Tony Veranis, Part Two During the period between 1966 and 1976, New England’s criminal underworld included many ex-boxers from the Boston area, many...
The Friends of Tony Veranis: Part One I suspect that every writer at one time or another wished that some playwright or film maker took a...
Don Dunphy once said, “When two or more people do blow by blow….they overtalk and emphasize too much.” He was responding in 1996 to the issue...
The decade of the 1970’s was a great one for boxing and the Southern California scene was especially a hotbed. Throw a dart and you’d come...
More than 50 boxing notables shared their thoughts in our latest TSS survey. As is our custom, we listed the respondents alphabetically. Those with last names...