B-Hop’s Latest Hall of Fame Extends Beyond the Ring Thomas Wolfe’s celebrated novel, You Can’t Go Home Again, published posthumously in 1940, paints a rather bleak...
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...
If cultural and culinary diversity is your thing, there’s some of that to be found along the South Philadelphia business corridor that runs along Washington Avenue...
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If you remove boxing from the equation, the term “City of Champions,” or at least near-champions, has not really applied to Philadelphia since the magical
I need to talk to you about George Dixon. I placed him at number four on my featherweight list. He made double-figures for title defenses at...
To say that former world bantamweight champion Richie Sandoval had a boxing career marked by highs and lows would be a great understatement. Sandoval was on...