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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
If asked to name the first big international prizefight on American soil, most boxing historians would name the 1921 match between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier,...
Roger Mayweather, who held world titles at 130 and 140 pounds, died today (Tuesday, March 17) at his home in Las Vegas. The record books say...