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...
Nino Benvenuti and Akron, Ohio, were an awkward fit. Benvenuti was something of a Renaissance man, or at least that is how he was portrayed. He...
Before the Pacquiao-Spence fight was taken off the wagering board, Manny was a plus 170 underdog. When the new line was posted on Pacquiao-Ugas, the Filipino...
Goodbye To All Of That: A Review of Mike Silver’s ‘The Night the Referee Hit Back’ Mike Silver has been writing about boxing since the 1970s,...
BOOK REVIEW by THOMAS HAUSER — Music was the lifeblood of cultural change in the 1950s and 1960s. Cassius X: The Transformation of Muhammad Ali by...
Book Review by Thomas Hauser — Carlos Monzon was born into extreme poverty in Argentina on August 7, 1942. He was mean, violent, surly, brutal, arrogant,...
Remembering ‘Skeeter’ McClure: Olympian, Middleweight Contender, Psychotherapist “He was as good a fighter then as Sugar Ray Leonard was later,” said the legendary Madison Square Garden...
Curtis Cokes was born in 1937 into a world of segregation, competing with his seven siblings for the attention of his parents, dreaming of baseball. There...
Test your knowledge of boxing history in our latest TSS trivia quiz. There are 20 multiple-choice questions, each worth five points. A score of “60” or...