“I just thrill at that boy’s performance. He is a marvel of boxing perfection. There is nothing he cannot do.” – Barney Ross. Between 1957 when...
Willie Pep was good at boxing. He wasn’t so good at math. Ah, but hold the phone; we are getting ahead of ourselves. This isn’t a...
The first fight between Naoya Inoue and Nonito Donaire was a humdinger. Inoue won a unanimous decision but took a lot of punishment including a broken...
The rematch between Naoya Inoue and Nonito Donaire will be “a monumental moment for boxing,” says the Probellum press release. That’s a bit over the top,...
The TSS 2019 Fight of the Year: Naoya Inoue vs. Nonito Donaire It was the seventh round of “The Thrilla in Manila” and Muhammad Ali, who...
The Fifty Greatest Flyweights of All Time: Part Five 10-1 No lengthy introduction to this one; the word count is out of sight. It may be...
The Fifty Greatest Flyweights of All Time: Part Two 40-31 In Part One we talked about Brian Viloria and his momentous confrontation with Juan Francisco Estrada. ...
How much improvement can a fighter, any fighter, demonstrate in only 137 seconds? How many sandpaper-rough stylistic edges can be smoothed in that comparatively brief snippet...
Juan Carlos Payano was ranked the fifth best bantamweight in the world by the TBRB going into today’s fight with Naoya Inoue and would have been...
There was really no right answer. Each man had a strong case. It was only in putting each of them through the wringer that I came...