Boxing in the Pages of Sports illustrated: A Short History Last week, Sports Illustrated laid off virtually its entire staff. This would seem to presage the...
Archie Moore’s Toledo Phase The most attractive boxing card on this weekend’s docket is being staged in Toledo, Ohio. Jared Anderson and Arslanbek Makhmudov, fast-rising heavyweight...
“Lionell ‘Lonnie B’ Thompson is a former professional boxer…” So reads the opening sentence of a blurb about him that popped up on the internet. Except...
The 1980s brought two new sanctioning bodies into boxing. The IBF, founded in 1983, and the WBO (1988) came along to challenge the established organizations. More...
On this day in boxing history, Aug. 5, 2009, the great screenwriter, novelist, and essayist Budd Schulberg passed away at age 95. His passing inspired this...
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...
Tributes are pouring in for Ron Ross who succumbed to the coronavirus yesterday at a hospital in Boca Raton, Florida. A longtime member of the Boxing...
Kirk Douglas, who died this week at the age of 103, was a 32-year-old, relatively unknown actor when he was offered the leading role in the...
On January 10, 2018, the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame announced the names of 22 individuals who will be inducted into the hall in...
Each year during the holiday season, I publish a list of what I consider to be the best books on boxing. That list, updated to accommodate