Over the years, there have been many oddities in the ring not the least of which were the “Chicken Dance” and the double knockdown. Zab vs....
More than five weeks have elapsed since Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury engaged in a memorable heavyweight title fight at the Staples Center in Los Angeles...
Though born in Michoacan, Mexico the lanky figure of Leo Santa Cruz was raised in the boxing gyms of Los Angeles like his brothers. Santa Cruz...
At a London news conference on Dec. 11, 2018, representatives of Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) and UK broadcaster ITV announced that they had consummated...
Prizefighters, lace up those withered gloves tight. In 2019 prizefighting will experience one of the most contentious and competitive years in the history of the sport....
Welcome to the first Quarterly TSS Survey of 2019. The following questions were asked: In the past, what ONE fighter did you most look forward to...
The best advertisement for a newly released movie – any product, actually – is not television commercials or print ads in newspapers and magazines. It is...
In Tokyo, Japan, in an event that began in the wee hours of the morning in the United States, Floyd Mayweather, in what was ostensibly an...
In Macau, China today, two excellent generational clashes unwound while most of America slept; in the UK the fights represented an early-morning treat for the fight...
In 2018, the “10 count” was tolled for an unusually high number of notable boxing personalities – so many that we here at TSS elected to...
An otherwise up year for boxing was unfortunately mottled by many somber notes as the “10 count” was tolled for an inordinately high number of notable...
A storm beckons in the month of February one way or another at the gladiators home formerly known as the StubHub Center. Either thunder and rain...
THREE PUNCH COMBO: In the final edition of “the combo” for 2018, I will get the crystal ball out and look ahead with three bold predictions...
BBC boxing correspondent Mike Costello this week called British boxing “the envy of the world” to the vocal approval of his sidekick Steve Bunce. A touch...
Word has come down that retired Las Vegas sportswriter Royce Feour has died. A lifelong resident of Las Vegas, save for his four years as a...
A leading boxing magazine named Naoya Inoue the “Knockout Puncher of the Year” for 2018. Fans of boxing and especially those enamored with knockouts should not...
There has been a bumper crop of fine breakthrough fighters this year including Danny Roman, Filip Hrgovic, Jaime Munguia, Tevin Farmer, Maurice Hooker and Regis Prograis....
There was a commercial for a particular brand of coffee that once advised the public that its brewed product was “good to the last drop.” And...
Barclays Center is becoming known for the aroma of weed that wafts through the arena on fight night. But there was a breath of fresh air...
It was snowing when Sugar Ray Robinson and his entourage left their hotel in Frankfurt, Germany, for the short walk to the sterile brick building where...
