“Nicaragua is a poor country and boxers have to eat,” said promoter Rosendo Alvarez by way of justification for the 8-fight card that he presented last...
There’s something special about attending an important boxing match where one of the principals is a British fighter with a large fan base. The crowd will...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 93: Best of Prizefighting Boxing powers are suggesting a return could be imminent but minus the clatter and chatter of a live audience....
The Silver Slipper gambling saloon opened in 1950. Unlike its neighbors on the dusty highway that came to be called the Las Vegas Strip, it was...
Test your knowledge of boxing history in our latest TSS trivia quiz. There are 20 multiple-choice questions, each worth five points. A score of “60” or...
Sometimes the loser of an athletic competition performs so far above his level of expectation that he is credited with a moral victory. Twenty-nine years ago...
Most boxing careers reflect a variation of a bell-shaped curve. The downward slope on the right-hand side indicates the decline of the fighter in question. Sometimes,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed another member of the boxing fraternity. Referee Eddie Cotton died this morning, April 17, in a Paterson, New Jersey hospital. A...
It was like a duel between two Old West gunslingers as Paulie Ayala a little-known Texas southpaw stood poised to greet New Mexico’s Johnny Tapia, the...
Few could battle in the pocket like Paulie Ayala the Texan from “Cow Town” U.S.A. His pit bull mentality and ability to apply pressure to the...