Many years ago, this reporter overhead ring announcer Chuck Hull gushing over a young boxer who was fairly new to the professional game. “This kid,” he...
Boxing Notes and Nuggets from Thomas Hauser Adam Pollack has written eleven books about boxing’s early gloved champions including a three-volume study of Jack Dempsey. Volume...
Oleksandr Usyk flipped the heavyweight division onto its head this past Saturday night in the Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, travelling a long way from home to seal...
If one had the ability to construct a prototypical New York City boxing writer, it would be in the mold of Wally Matthews. This observation was...
The Hauser Report: Literary Notes As years pass, memories of boxers who once captured the public imagination fade away. The number of people who were alive...
On Sunday, June 19, a press release from Matchroom Boxing made it official: the rematch between WBA/IBF/WBO world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and former title-holder Anthony...
Summertime is reading season. In olden days when the leading Sunday papers had a separate book review section and vacationers carried books in their carry-ons, the...
Last Saturday’s mega-fight in New York between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano was a fast and furious go that consumed 20 minutes of actual fighting. It’s...
Tyson Fury announced that his fight with Dillian Whyte would be his last rodeo. Some people were inclined to believe him. “Fury retains heavyweight belt in...
Old books can be enlightening and a pleasure to read. I’m not talking now about classics. Just good old books that have been largely forgotten. A...