Giovanni “Nino” Benvenuti won the gold medal in the welterweight class at the 1960 Rome Olympics where he edged out the young American light heavyweight Cassius...
Arne’s Almanac: The Good, the Bad, and the (Mostly) Ugly; a Weekend Boxing Recap and More It’s old news now, but on back-to-back nights on the...
Reflections on Yoenli Hernandez and the New Wave of Outstanding Cuban Boxers Cuban boxers were 2-0 at the T-Mobile Arena on Mexican Independence Day weekend in...
On Friday, Oct. 8, 1976, Peter Bufala returned home from work just as a new day was dawning. The Las Vegas baccarat dealer pulled his Cadillac...
Holiday Reading 2023: Best Books About Boxing By Thomas Hauser Each year during the holiday season, I publish a list of what I consider to be...
Thomas Hauser’s Notes and Nuggets: Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and More Earlier this year, the Metropolitan Opera Company at Lincoln Center in New York mounted a...
Reviews of Two Atypical Boxing Books: A ‘Thumbs Up’ and a ‘Thumbs Down’ Jack Johnson sheared the world heavyweight title from Tommy Burns in 1908 and...
When Eric Greene took his seat at a ringside table at Sony Hall on April 27, fans in attendance could have been forgiven for thinking that...
When Hall of Fame boxing writer Bernard Fernandez set about compiling his anthology (Championship Rounds, published in 2020) he had some hard decisions to make. During...
“Gaspar Ortega has fought everybody who was anybody in the welterweight division since he turned professional in 1953. He’s been on television more times than Ben...