Looking over the 160lb division of the last decade was tough. A concrete top three was difficult to order for reasons that will become apparent and...
Boxing Odds and Ends: Looking Back 50 Years, Terence Crawford and More Fifty years ago this month, the most alluring fight was a clash between two...
The Friends of Tony Veranis, Part Two During the period between 1966 and 1976, New England’s criminal underworld included many ex-boxers from the Boston area, many...
Some moments transcend all sports for example Diego “Chico” Corrales’ come-from-behind knockout victory over Mexico’s super tough Jose Luis Castillo. SHOWTIME will be televising both the...
With boxing currently at a standstill, now would seem to be an ideal time for the powers-that-be to initiate reforms. Something good will actually come out...
The Friends of Tony Veranis: Part One I suspect that every writer at one time or another wished that some playwright or film maker took a...
As a teenager, Teddy Atlas was a troublemaker. One could have predicted that he would grow into a man who would get thrown out of places....
Tim Bradley appeared on the professional boxing circuit like an unpinned grenade and exploded on the Southern California scene. When Bradley began fighting regularly under the...
Monday, April 6, marks the 33rd anniversary of the storied fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler. In 2007, in conjunction with the 20th anniversary,...
Monday, April 6, marks the 33rd anniversary of one of the most famous fights in boxing history. On that date in 1987, Sugar Ray Leonard upset...
Few things compare to watching the rise of a virtual unknown boxer to world champion status and that’s what transpired in the amazing career of Tim...
They say that good things come to those who wait, but that old bromide gives little solace to a boxer whose career has been frozen by...
A name popped up recently that shot memories of 1960s boxing nights at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. That name was Sho Saijo, a Japanese...
Hedgemon Lewis, who came up short in three stabs at the world welterweight title but won the New York version of this diadem, died on Sunday,...
Don Dunphy once said, “When two or more people do blow by blow….they overtalk and emphasize too much.” He was responding in 1996 to the issue...
If you happen to have a lot of time on your hands (and, unfortunately, many of us do) this might be a good time to cuddle...
Art of Boxing Series: Sergio ‘The Latin Snake’ Mora of East L.A. Not all prizefighters are built or fight the same. This is a series devoted...
One hundred years ago this week, on March 24, 1920, a boxing reform bill sponsored by Sen. James J. Walker passed the New York State Senate....
Beneath his salty exterior, Roger Mayweather had the soul of a scholar when the subject turned to the history of boxing. We suspect that Mayweather, who...
The decade of the 1970’s was a great one for boxing and the Southern California scene was especially a hotbed. Throw a dart and you’d come...
