Test your knowledge of boxing history in our latest TSS trivia quiz. There are 20 multiple-choice questions, each worth five points. A score of “60” or...
For the second time in the last three years, there will be no boxing in Las Vegas on Cinco de Mayo weekend. The 2018 date was...
Most people around the world like boxing. It’s a fact that goes unnoticed by American newspapers and television outlets that cover sports, but not in other...
It’s Kentucky Derby Week (sort of), so Let’s Talk Boxing This is the week that many of us would have shifted our gaze from boxing to...
The discussions around which boxer possessed the best chin are endless. Names like Chuvalo, Cobb, and Hagler quickly emerge; Juan LaPorte and Kid Gavilan less so....
PRESS RELEASE: NEW YORK – April 28, 2020 – SHOWTIME Sports will continue to present classic bouts from its vast archive of world championship fights every...
154lbs had a fascinating decade. The first generation that came through with Saul Alvarez and Miguel Cotto soon made way for a younger generation made up...
A Message from Teddy Atlas to his Countrymen regarding COVID-19 The other day, I had wanted to tell this fighter, my favorite fighter of all time,...
The Internet has changed sportswriting, particularly when it comes to writing about boxing. Very few newspapers or magazines now have a writer on staff who understands...
“Nicaragua is a poor country and boxers have to eat,” said promoter Rosendo Alvarez by way of justification for the 8-fight card that he presented last...
There’s something special about attending an important boxing match where one of the principals is a British fighter with a large fan base. The crowd will...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 93: Best of Prizefighting Boxing powers are suggesting a return could be imminent but minus the clatter and chatter of a live audience....
The Silver Slipper gambling saloon opened in 1950. Unlike its neighbors on the dusty highway that came to be called the Las Vegas Strip, it was...
Test your knowledge of boxing history in our latest TSS trivia quiz. There are 20 multiple-choice questions, each worth five points. A score of “60” or...
Sometimes the loser of an athletic competition performs so far above his level of expectation that he is credited with a moral victory. Twenty-nine years ago...
Most boxing careers reflect a variation of a bell-shaped curve. The downward slope on the right-hand side indicates the decline of the fighter in question. Sometimes,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed another member of the boxing fraternity. Referee Eddie Cotton died this morning, April 17, in a Paterson, New Jersey hospital. A...
It was like a duel between two Old West gunslingers as Paulie Ayala a little-known Texas southpaw stood poised to greet New Mexico’s Johnny Tapia, the...
Few could battle in the pocket like Paulie Ayala the Texan from “Cow Town” U.S.A. His pit bull mentality and ability to apply pressure to the...
The Boxing Writers Association of America has announced the winners of the 18th annual Bernie awards. The awards acknowledge outstanding writing in six categories: Event Coverage,...
