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...
uCOMMERCE, Ca.-Almost ritualistically Raul Curiel won by knockout in December and this time Brad Solomon was the victim in a regional welterweight title fight on Saturday....
Frank Martin is Too Sharp for ‘Ali’ Rivera: Wins the Main Event at the Cosmo Las Vegas, NV — Premier Boxing Champions was at the Cosmopolitan...
Two undefeated members of the 2016 French Olympic team were featured today, Dec. 17, at a show at an exposition center in Nantes, France. Christian Mbilli,...
Two of the bigger boxing promotion companies bang it out on the same day with rival fight cards. One of them is extremely long. It brings...
Today in Tokyo, Japan, Naoya Inoue achieved his dream of becoming the first Japanese fighter to become an undisputed world champion in the four-belt era with...
