Marvin Hagler and Bernard Hopkins were undoubtedly the two best middleweights of their respective generations. Hagler (62-3-2) dominated the 1980's with a ferocious southpaw style that...
The forthcoming book “Brute” follows two Sacramento boxers: Mike Simms, a cruiserweight who trained with the Olympic team in 2000, who when I found him had...
Can it really be 11 years since we first laid eyes on Max Kellerman’s Fonzi jacket? Indeed it has been more than a decade. Welcome back,...
The center of women’s boxing has shifted to Europe with the most lucrative bouts occurring in places like Germany, France and Bosnia. But despite the struggles...
When Teddy Atlas watches Yuriorkis Gamboa fight he knows exactly what he’s looking at. He’s looking at a future world champion. For how long? Who knows?...
Props must be given to Larry Merchant, that professor of pugilism. He after all hatched the concept of Pacquaio vs. De La Hoya, and suggested that...
While many things have been projected for Manny Pacquiao this year one thing is set – he won’t ever defend the WBC lightweight title he won...
MONTEBELLO, CA.-A decade has passed since Antonio Margarito first arrived in Southern California as an unknown lanky boxer out of the rough streets of Tijuana. Now...
Male boxing and female boxing are almost incomparable. As men’s pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao, now world-famous for his thumping of Oscar De La Hoya in December,...
Boxing officially begins the New Year this week and while the sport continues to have its problems there remains much to be hopeful about. Frankly, the...
It’s 99.9% done. Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton will throw down on May 2nd, in Las Vegas, with only the venue yet to be determined. Expect...
Some careers get started in the most peculiar ways. For 21 year-old “Vicious” Victor Ortiz, it was his father’s words that sent him on his way...
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...
