On January 6, 1971, Earnie Shavers, a well-touted heavyweight prospect from Warren, Ohio, fought Lee Estes at the Silver Slipper in Las Vegas. Shavers’ team on...
LOS ANGELES-Swilled in gentlemanly conduct Andy “The Destroyer” Ruiz was stymied by Luis “King Kong” Ortiz’s manners more than his blows but used his early knockdowns...
Liam “Beefy” Smith, the second-youngest of Liverpool’s four fighting Smith brothers, had the home field advantage tonight when he opposed former sparring partner Hassan Mwakinyo, a...
LOS ANGELES-Giant killers in heavyweight boxing like Andy Ruiz have existed since the beginning of prizefighting. Can his ability to disrupt bigger men continue? Though listed...
Earnie Shavers, Gone at 78, Was The Bambino of Boxing’s Biggest Boppers The technology of sports today, most of them anyway, has become so advanced that...
Boxing returns to Las Vegas on Saturday, Sept. 3, with a show at the Westgate, the home to many storied fights when the property was known...
It is with a heavy heart that we report the passing of TSS mainstay Ted Sares. The author of several books about boxing and hundreds of...
The Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame Welcomes Native Son Bernard Hopkins Some athletes are so obviously gifted that they appear to have burst into prominence at...
Tonight’s junior welterweight match between Jose Pedraza and Richard Commey, the headline attraction of a Top Rank show in Tulsa, was a match between two former...
Top Rank is in Tulsa tomorrow night (Saturday, Aug. 27) with a 9-fight card topped by a 10-round, 140-pound showdown between former title-holders Jose Pedraza and...
Avila Perspective, Chap 200: King of the Club Shows, Stallone and More COSTA MESA, CA.-A packed crowd saw Southern California’s newest hot prospect Ernesto “Tito” Mercado...
We are approaching the 130th anniversary of the Sullivan-Corbett fight, a watershed event in the annals of pugilism. Their match at New Orleans on Wednesday, Sept...
The Hauser Report: Literary, Medical, and Other Boxing Notes Joe Louis vs. Billy Conn by Ed Gruver (Lyons Press) is what its title says it is...
As the New England correspondent for The Sweet Science boxing website, it again falls upon me to produce an annual accounting of the top-rated professional boxers...
Boxing, baseball, college football and horse racing once ruled the American sports landscape. Of course, that was in the 1940s and 1950s when men wore suits...
Usyk Turned Away Joshua Again When His Inner Taras Bulba Emerged in Round 10 Few people are apt to remember the 1962 film Taras Bulba, starring...
Last year around this time, then undefeated Hartford, Connecticut cruiserweight Richard “Popeye the Sailor Man” Rivera was still boxing in 8-rounders, fighting in Worcester, Massachusetts on...
The eyes of the boxing world were focused on the coastal city of Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today where Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony...
Even on his worst day Emanuel Navarrete proved no lead is too big to overcome in losing almost every round and stopping challenger Eduardo Baez with...
Usyk-Joshua II, Navarrete-Baez, Figueroa-Lipinets and More It’s beginning to be a habit. Once again Anthony Joshua attempts to right a wrong when he faces Oleksandr Usyk...
