Xander Zayas is the 2021 TSS Prospect of the Year Let’s start by establishing the criteria for a “prospect.” I would suggest using this barometer to...
Sandor Martin Fashioned the 2021 TSS Upset of the Year When Mikey Garcia moved up two weight classes to challenge IBF world welterweight champion Errol Spence...
Efe Ajagba Forged the 2021 TSS Knockout of the Year A Knockout of the Year, by my criteria, has four elements: (1) suddenness, as in unexpected,...
It wasn’t too long ago that David Avanesyan was judged to be a journeyman on the wrong side of the hill. That was the assumption after...
A TSS CLASSIC – It was snowing when Sugar Ray Robinson and his entourage left their hotel in Frankfurt, Germany, for the short walk to the...
It’s award season here at The Sweet Science and this year we open with the Breakthrough Fighter of the Year. The nod goes to welterweight Conor...
Los Angeles has always had this deep, dark unknown side to it especially when it comes to boxing. At the beginning of the 1900s prizefighting took...
There was bad news today on the boxing front. World class ring announcer David Diamante was critically injured in a motorcycle accident. Earlier in the day,...
“Gaspar Ortega has fought everybody who was anybody in the welterweight division since he turned professional in 1953. He’s been on television more times than Ben...
No one will ever question Derek Chisora’s courage or his heart, but too many wars are, well, just too many. The Zimbabwe-born British professional boxer has...
Grimmish by Michael Winkler (Westbourne Books) is strange book. And an intriguing one. The book focuses on a one-year period in 1908-1909 when boxer Joe Grim...
STORY BY DAVID A. AVILA — You can remove the social media moniker now as Jake Paul put the hammer on former MMA star Tyron Woodley...
Former WBO 168-pound champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez, in his second bout as a light heavyweight, improved his ledger to 43-0 (29) with a 10th-round stoppage of...
Joseph Parker narrowly defeated Dereck Chisora when they met this past May in Manchester. The verdict of the judges was split. Today they locked horns again...
Two-time Olympian Artur Beterbiev was in his adopted city of Montreal tonight risking his WBC and IBF world light heavyweight title belts against Marcus Browne. It...
Tumult in Tashkent as Madrimov is Awarded a ‘Late’ Stoppage The Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan, home to about 32 million people, won seven Olympic medals...
Arne’s Almanac: Beterbiev vs. Browne Highlights a Busy Boxing Weekend The week before Christmas is historically a dead zone for professional boxing. Not anymore. World title-holders...
Unless you are in the habit of waking up in the morning several hours before dawn, you probably don’t know that Naoya Inoue was in action...
The Third Time Won’t Be a Charm for SPOTY Nominee Tyson Fury For the second straight year and the third time overall, Tyson Fury’s name appears...
STORY BY DAVID A. AVILA — In a flash Nonito Donaire discovered an opening and knocked out fellow Filipino Reymart Gaballo with a single left hook...
