James “Lights Out” Toney clearly epitomizes the meaning of a true prizefighter. In the last 60 years no other pugilist possessed more fighting skills than James...
Close the book. And it’s a thick one on Filipino superstar Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao. When Pacquiao first arrived in the late 90s it wasn’t with great...
Sitting in front of several dozen reporters, the favorite son of Los Angeles area boxing, Oscar De La Hoya, and former MMA champion Vitor Belfort spoke...
The Agony of Defeat Bad decisions are as much a part of boxing as enswell, but reactions from the losers vary widely. The look on Roberto...
Loma Batters Nakatani Even If it Was Teofimo’s Face He Was Seeing Two pretty fair boxers, James Toney and Fernando Vargas, stoked their inner fires by...
Seven weeks after announcing his retirement, Evander Holyfield had an about-face. The impetus was a two-day rally he attended in Philadelphia led by controversial televangelist Benny...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 129: Remembering Rod Hunt and More Fight News We lost another one in the boxing world. Rodney Cruz Hunt, 53, passed recently from...
“During the1980s,” wrote TSS editor Arne Lang in a recent article, “Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, and Roberto Duran enlivened the sport, fighting...
Anecdotes. Everybody who has spent any appreciable amount of time in and around boxing has ’em, personal memories of notable and not-so-notable figures in the sport...
On Tuesday, Dec. 15, the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York, announced the inductees in the Class of 2021. Wladimir Klitschko, Floyd Mayweather...