The forthcoming book “Brute” follows two Sacramento boxers: Mike Simms, a cruiserweight who trained with the Olympic team in 2000, who when I found him had...
They bang, they bang. Former Ultimate Fighting Championship titleholder Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Keith “The Dean of Mean” Jardine prefer blowing out opponent’s jaws, noses, eye...
NEW YORK (March 6, 2009) – Irish Ropes Promotions announced today that its scheduled March 16th “Erin Go Brawl II” pro boxing show at WaMu Theater...
He would sit in the corner at Kronk, a boxing shrine on McGraw Street in the midst of a hard part of Detroit, and not say...
The resilience of the out-gunned Greek army against the immense Persian forces during the ancient Battle of Thermopylae is regarded as the prime example of how...
TSS readers regularly come up with tags for fights that obliterate the names given by promoters. I think our ace commenters might be able to do...
I have been hammering this theme of late, maybe because I’ve been caught up in a wave of change that our new President has ushered in....
National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, UK: Purists often talk in awe of boxing technique. Zipping jabs, fluid combinations, dazzling footwork and dancing grace are hailed as the...
If there is a technically more proficient boxer in the world than Juan Manuel Marquez no one has ever seen him. This is a point Marquez...
He is not the sort who when he is not assigned to an event, chooses to steer clear of all things fistic. Larry Merchant didn’t work...
