Avila Perspective, Chap. 124: Super Featherweights Collide and More Many expect a Mexican battle of epic proportions to erupt when Miguel Berchelt defends the WBC super...
Beat The Press: Awkward Moments With Problematic Boxers (A TSS Classic) “Get him a straitjacket!” That’s how all this craziness started. In 2002, boxing writer Mark...
The lightweight decade 2010-2019 was a disaster. Far and away the weakest list I have compiled so far; it was also far and away the most...
Odds and Ends: Studio Fights, Mayweather Gym notes, Adrien Broner and More Back in the day when folks watched boxing on little black-and-white TVs and boxing...
In 2001, the University of Arkansas Press released Thomas Hauser’s “A Beautiful Sickness: Reflections on the Sweet Science” and a tradition was born. Decades from now,...
Eloy Perez had 27 pro fights and lost only one. That came in his final bout when he challenged Adrien Broner for the WBO world super...
Pacquiao vs. Thurman: A Case Study on Two Types of Atrophy Manny Pacquiao’s historic welterweight showdown against WBA titleholder Keith Thurman on July 20 is a...
Before his death at the age of 75 on Feb. 3, 2016, Richie Giachetti, the longest-tenured of longtime heavyweight champion Larry Holmes’ chief seconds, proudly spoke...
In a twisted development a couple of East Coast guys are headed to Los Angeles to battle while another pair of West Coast guys are headed...
Anytime someone mentions the city of Chicago visions of skyscrapers, baseball and good food come to mind, but seldom does anyone envision world champion prizefighters. Surprisingly,...