George Foreman had two careers as a prizefighter. He finished his first career with a record of 45-2 and his second career with a record of...
“The legend lives on,” intones ring announcer Mark Shinock by way of introducing Nico Ali Walsh. As boxing fans know, Walsh is the grandson of Muhammad...
It seems all along that Norm Frauenheim was destined to become a boxing writer. Two critical elements were at play that led the 75-year-old scribe to...
Boxing in the Pages of Sports illustrated: A Short History Last week, Sports Illustrated laid off virtually its entire staff. This would seem to presage the...
Ryan O’Neal passed away last week at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, at age 82. During the 1970s, O’Neal was one of the most well-known...
Holiday Reading 2023: Best Books About Boxing By Thomas Hauser Each year during the holiday season, I publish a list of what I consider to be...
Thomas Hauser’s Notes and Nuggets: Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and More Earlier this year, the Metropolitan Opera Company at Lincoln Center in New York mounted a...
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...
Eric Griffin passed away a week ago Saturday (Oct. 7) at age 55 at a hospital in Lafayette, Louisiana. Griffin was no great shakes as a...
Two of boxing’s greatest blow-by-blow commentators were in the news last week. On Saturday night, Jim Lampley returned to the sweet science but in a role...