In recent years, it has become traditional in Japan to hold a big boxing contest on New Year’s Eve. No Japanese boxer has become more identified...
Avila Perspective, Chap 218: Looking for Mr. Good Year WBA super flyweight titlist Joshua Franco travels to Japan and meets WBO titlist Kazuto Ioka on Saturday...
For British boxing, it was a good year. Here I select four categories: the British Fighter of the Year, fairly self-explanatory; the British Fight of the...
Dmitry Bivol is the TSS 2022 Fighter of the Year It is a saying nearly as old as boxing itself. “To be the best, you have...
The noted boxing trainer Ismael Salas has been on quite a ride since leaving his native Cuba in 1989. In the 30-plus years since he left...
Jurmain McDonald (say who?) Forged the TSS 2022 Upset of the Year Upsets come in two varieties. There are those that occur on a big stage....
These past 12 months in 2022 have proven to be the Year of the Women. Women’s prizefighting finally arrived and it was like a sonic boom....
Notes and Nuggets from Thomas Hauser Do you think it would be fun to be a ring announcer? If you don’t like waiting in airports, taking...
Floyd ‘Austin Kid’ Schofield is the TSS 2022 Prospect of the Year Last year we narrowed down the word “prospect.” By our definition, a prospect couldn’t...
Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez’s first two fights of 2022 were so impressive that he built a strong case for Fighter of the Year, let alone “Breakthrough.” Few...