“I wanted to write about Muhammad Ali,” Wilfrid Sheed told me years ago when we were discussing the text that Sheed had written for an elaborate...
Triller, Holyfield, and Trump: Did Evander Get Hustled? Part Two of a Two-Part Story The last thing a fighter loses isn’t his legs, speed, or power....
Triller, Holyfield, and Trump: Did Evander Get Hustled? (Part One of a Two-Part Story) On September 11, Evander Holyfield was knocked out by Vitor Belfort in...
On September 10, Oscar Valdez successfully defended his WBC super-featherweight title with a twelve-round decision over Robson Conceicao in a bout contested under the auspices of...
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X were two of the most charismatic and important people of the twentieth century. Five years ago, Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith...
BOOK REVIEW by THOMAS HAUSER — Ike Ibeabuchi (who styled himself as “The President”) came from afar. Born in Nigeria, he moved to the United States...
Who would have thought that there would be a Manny Pacquiao fight and many people in boxing wouldn’t care? That was the case on August 21...
The Hauser Report: The Script for Lamar Odom vs. Aaron Carter The sweet science is being inundated by a wave of what one might call “trash...
On Tuesday, August 3, I went to the fights for the first time in seventeen months. The occasion was the inaugural TrillerVerz event at Madison Square...
BOOK REVIEW by THOMAS HAUSER — George Dixon was boxing’s first Black world champion. “For a decade leading into the twentieth century,” Jason Winders writes, “few...