Here's something you don't often, or really ever see, which might have been off your radar this weekend. A 5-0 guy stepped in with a 24-2...
Admit it, you’ve once or twice or perhaps many more times than that thought Paulie Malignaggi was pretty damn annoying. The little guy with the big...
Remember: When an amateur fighter had to win more than just two fights to become a Golden Gloves champ? When the Olympic trials were a big...
Highly ranked Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam (30-1, 18 Kos) of France faces New York’s Curtis Stevens (27-4, 20 Kos) in an IBF middleweight elimination bout tonight, Wednesday...
We fightwriters sometimes err in focusing too much on the business side of things, I think. While we are focusing on the power plays, and rifts...
Dan Goossen, president of Goossen Promotions based in Sherman Oaks, passed away from complications due to liver cancer, it was announced on Monday. He was only...
Throughout my ESPN/USA Network/MSG Network/Ring Magazine days of the late ’70’s right up until the time I became head of the NYSAC, I had the pleasure...
When Dan Goossen telephoned, he would announce himself in a unique way. There was no “Hi, Tom” or “This is Dan.” Just . . . “Aaaaaayyy...
It’s always tough to lose a boxing lifer. And Dan Goossen, big Dan, dapper, quick with a joke, and no, not always a good one, was...
Most fight fans didn’t know his real name, which is just as well because they probably wouldn’t have been able to spell or pronounce it in...