The first big boxing card of 2023 was a Showtime promotion from the Capitol One Arena in Washington, DC. The first fight on the pay-per-view portion...
Stuff happens. Not just to Gervonta “Tank” Davis but to anyone anywhere. Whether it’s a prizefighter with blazing speed, outstanding power and a knack for shining...
Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis – A Pure Fighter on the Cusp of a Breakout Year It was just after noon on Monday, December 26th, the day after...
“I have no illusions that I can fight forever,” says Mickey Bey who turns 40 in six months, “but I have one more run left in...
This is the concluding segment of our story in which we pay homage to boxing notables who left us in the past year. July July 12...
The American flag at the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the village of Canastota is lowered to half-mast whenever a person enshrined in the Hall...
In recent years, it has become traditional in Japan to hold a big boxing contest on New Year’s Eve. No Japanese boxer has become more identified...
Avila Perspective, Chap 218: Looking for Mr. Good Year WBA super flyweight titlist Joshua Franco travels to Japan and meets WBO titlist Kazuto Ioka on Saturday...
For British boxing, it was a good year. Here I select four categories: the British Fighter of the Year, fairly self-explanatory; the British Fight of the...
Dmitry Bivol is the TSS 2022 Fighter of the Year It is a saying nearly as old as boxing itself. “To be the best, you have...
The noted boxing trainer Ismael Salas has been on quite a ride since leaving his native Cuba in 1989. In the 30-plus years since he left...
Jurmain McDonald (say who?) Forged the TSS 2022 Upset of the Year Upsets come in two varieties. There are those that occur on a big stage....
These past 12 months in 2022 have proven to be the Year of the Women. Women’s prizefighting finally arrived and it was like a sonic boom....
Notes and Nuggets from Thomas Hauser Do you think it would be fun to be a ring announcer? If you don’t like waiting in airports, taking...
Floyd ‘Austin Kid’ Schofield is the TSS 2022 Prospect of the Year Last year we narrowed down the word “prospect.” By our definition, a prospect couldn’t...
Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez’s first two fights of 2022 were so impressive that he built a strong case for Fighter of the Year, let alone “Breakthrough.” Few...
Down Memory Lane with Renowned LA Sports Columnist Bill Dwyre Whether it’s the NBA Finals, Super Bowl, World Series, college football’s biggest games, college basketball’s Final...
If referees boogied toward the ring to the sound of their own entrance music, as all reasonably relevant fighters do now, the logical guess is that...
A ferocious, one-punch knockout becomes even more memorable when — to use a hoary expression – it snatches victory from the jaws of defeat. Jordan Gill’s...
It goes without saying that many of the most ballyhooed fights in boxing history have been duds. The April 30 match between 35-year-old Irishwoman Katie Taylor...
