It wasn’t too long ago that David Avanesyan was judged to be a journeyman on the wrong side of the hill. That was the assumption after...
A TSS CLASSIC – It was snowing when Sugar Ray Robinson and his entourage left their hotel in Frankfurt, Germany, for the short walk to the...
It’s award season here at The Sweet Science and this year we open with the Breakthrough Fighter of the Year. The nod goes to welterweight Conor...
Los Angeles has always had this deep, dark unknown side to it especially when it comes to boxing. At the beginning of the 1900s prizefighting took...
There was bad news today on the boxing front. World class ring announcer David Diamante was critically injured in a motorcycle accident. Earlier in the day,...
“Gaspar Ortega has fought everybody who was anybody in the welterweight division since he turned professional in 1953. He’s been on television more times than Ben...
No one will ever question Derek Chisora’s courage or his heart, but too many wars are, well, just too many. The Zimbabwe-born British professional boxer has...
Grimmish by Michael Winkler (Westbourne Books) is strange book. And an intriguing one. The book focuses on a one-year period in 1908-1909 when boxer Joe Grim...
STORY BY DAVID A. AVILA — You can remove the social media moniker now as Jake Paul put the hammer on former MMA star Tyron Woodley...
Former WBO 168-pound champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez, in his second bout as a light heavyweight, improved his ledger to 43-0 (29) with a 10th-round stoppage of...