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...
Russell Peltz’s “Thirty Dollars and a Cut Eye”: Book Review by Thomas Hauser Russell Peltz has been promoting fights for fifty years and is as much...
PART ONE OF A TWO-PART STORY — In the 1982 MGM comedy film “My Favorite Year,” a young production assistant is charged with the responsibility of...
New York. Late Friday afternoon, I was walking along West 33rd Street thinking about how Bryant Jennings should fight Wlad Klitschko when I did a double-take....
Jere Dunn was a referee of some importance during the late nineteenth century, a period when professional boxing was in flux as the modern Queensberry rules...
Jack Dempsey, who has been matched by Jack Goodfriend to fight at the Hippodrome Monday, May 31 is expected to arrive from Reno within a day...
Eric Drath is a very good filmmaker. The release of Macho: The Hector Camacho Story on Showtime this month demonstrates that yet again. Drath (pictured) was...
We’re going way back, but there was a time when the Fourth of July was a big day for boxing in the U.S. The high-water mark,...
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE DESK OF BWAA PRESIDENT JOSEPH SANTOLIQUITO — The Boxing Writers Association of America is proud to announce Purdue University history professor Randy...
Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Hobble Boxing? There’s a Precedent for It “Influenza Halts Boxing Activity” read the headline above an Oct. 13, 1918 story in the...