“More than anyone else,” Kenneth Bridgham writes, “John Morrissey personified the links between sports, gambling, high finance, politics, and crime in nineteenth-century America.” That’s the theme...
Although it wasn’t a world title fight, the match between Joe Joyce and Daniel Dubois which took place in London on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, attracted...
The Oct. 3 bout at the MGM Grand “Bubble” between Jose Zepeda and Ivan Baranchyk was a rip-snorter, a runaway choice for the 2020 Fight of...
On a blustery autumn afternoon in October, 1979, Johnny Bos stepped off the elevator into my office at Ring Magazine. He was wearing a full-length white...
Sometimes the loser of an athletic competition performs so far above his level of expectation that he is credited with a moral victory. Twenty-nine years ago...
The most enduring of American conspiracy theories involves a gunman who may or may not have existed and may or may not have been on a...
As far back as he can remember, Randy Gordon always wanted to be in boxing. To do what, exactly, he had little clue. All that mattered...
Gerry Cooney’s life is a cautionary tale that, with a lot of effort on his part, has taken a happy turn. Beaten physically and emotionally in...
Chicano Power! That was the 1960s rallying cry from those born of Mexican descent decades ago and it seems appropriate for Andy Ruiz Jr. after his...
Beginning tomorrow (Thursday, April 25), there will be four shows in Las Vegas in a span of 10 days. They will be staged at four different...