Book Review by Thomas Hauser — Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century (Liveright Publishing Company) with art by Youssef Daoudi...
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,...
Larry Holmes Challenged Me to a Fight (I Declined) “Mama always said, life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get,”...
The world of prizefighting is braced by men with a wide range of skills, but rarely has there been a jack-of-all-trades as versatile as Adam Pollack....
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...
Harry Reid passed away yesterday afternoon, Dec. 28, at age 82 after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. During a career in politics that spanned six...
Grimmish by Michael Winkler (Westbourne Books) is strange book. And an intriguing one. The book focuses on a one-year period in 1908-1909 when boxer Joe Grim...
Donald Trump, the once and perhaps future President of the United States, has thrown his family name back into the wild world of professional boxing, a...
BOOK REVIEW by THOMAS HAUSER — George Dixon was boxing’s first Black world champion. “For a decade leading into the twentieth century,” Jason Winders writes, “few...
According to crackerjack publicist Madelyn Flax, the June 1, 1939 fight at Yankee Stadium between Lou Nova and Max Baer has the distinction of being the...