If you have read any of the boxing news wires over the past week, you might have come across the sighting of a ghost. On January...
The Niavaroni-Sax Gym in Roseville, California stands beside a Marines recruiting office. On the building façade in large, white letters are the words KICKBOXING INC. I...
Reading through an issue of the New Yorker from 1962, I came across an article on Cassius Clay written by A.J. Liebling. He had watched Clay...
On a daily basis Melinda Cooper puts on her workout clothes, boxing shoes and endures the rigors of training for professional prizefighting. At, 23, the undefeated...
The end of the year is a time for nostalgia and remembrance and so it is in the boxing world as well. We pine for the...
Editor Michael Woods has requested that I write an article listing my personal end-of-the-year awards in boxing for posting on TSS. Normally, there would be no...
It wasn’t supposed to go down this way. The little guy who started out as a 106 pounder was supposed to be outweighed by about 15...
Fighter of the Year In 2008, Manny “Pac Man” Pacquiao accomplished something that was last seen in October 1937 to October 1938 when the great Henry...
For boxing as a whole, 2008 was a great year that saw the sport grow exponentially thanks to dynamic matchmaking and accompanying fistic fireworks. But for...
It says something about a fighter when they take on the “Sugar” nickname. When you compare yourself to the Robinsons and Leonards and even the Mosleys,...
