Remembering Prizefighters Danny Nardico and Billy Murray: A Story for Veterans Day “There are now over 4000 pro boxers in our armed forces” said a story...
Caleb Plant returns to the ring on Sept. 14 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Plant, a former 168-pound world title-holder whose only two losses...
A Massive Upset in Detroit Evokes Memories of Eugene “Silent” Hairston On the face of it, last Saturday’s super lightweight contest in Detroit between Shohjahon Ergashev...
“He was a great teacher,” said Billy Conn. “[Fighting Zivic] was like going to college for five years, just boxing him ten rounds…” Fritzie Zivic never...
75 years ago this week, on Friday, Nov. 14, 1947, a near-capacity crowd of 18,340 crammed into Madison Square Garden for the weekly boxing show. The...
Glimpses into the Past (Part Three of a Three-Part Story) Tracking all the way back to the 1940’s, I have witnessed literally thousands of fights during...
A TSS CLASSIC – It was snowing when Sugar Ray Robinson and his entourage left their hotel in Frankfurt, Germany, for the short walk to the...
Test your knowledge of boxing history in this 15-question multiple-choice trivia quiz. Get 12 or more right and go to the head of the class. To...
When a man retires after a lengthy career in an interesting occupation, he feels a tug to write his memoir. If he happened to be a...
For the middleweights, world-conquering monsters arrived early. Of the three divisions I’ve studied so far, middleweight is by far the most dangerous territory. The top 12...