Sergey Kovalev was on everyone’s pound-for-pound list during his long reign as a world light heavyweight champion. However, Robin Sirwan Safar was hardly intimidated when he...
October 29 is a historic day in boxing, marking the professional debut of a young fighter destined for greatness and the historic accomplishment of a champion....
Boxing has always been a sport of moments — flashes of courage, heartbreak, and glory that echo long after the bell. On October 28, two very...
Today (Monday, Oct. 27), Mikaela Mayer heads off to Quebec where she will lock horns with Mary Spencer on Thursday in the featured bout of a...
In a riveting slugfest, Fabio Wardley walked through fire to emerge victorious, stopping former world heavyweight title-holder Joseph Parker in the 11th round. Wardley was 19-0...
Once upon a time the heavyweight championship was dominated by Americans. No longer. In the 21st century Europeans grabbed one heavyweight title after another and now...
The title of Thomas Hauser’s latest compilation, “The Most Honest Sport,” will strike some as an oxymoron. Goodness, we’re talking about professional boxing here, a sport...
Tournaments in professional boxing tend to become messy affairs. As things proceed, they go off-script, wrecking well-laid plans. By contrast, the ongoing tournament in Riyadh, Saudi...
Literary Notes from Thomas Hauser The fights between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney in 1926 and 1927 were among the greatest sports spectacles ever contested in...
On a day when there were marathon fight cards in other locales, Danny Garcia’s Swift Promotions won the prize, staging 14 fights at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center,...