LOS ANGELES-It was a kinder, gentler meeting of heavyweights in the City of Angels when WBC titlist Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury met on...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 79: Boxing 101 (Part One) In a dusty room in a loft-style apartment in Montebello began my adventure into the world of prizefighting...
2018 was an astonishing year for British boxing and for all that 2019 didn’t quite measure up, there were some notable names and some astonishing moments,...
When he was a 22-year-old kid embarking on a boxing journey that might have ended almost as quickly as it began, J Russell Peltz – with...
Looking Ahead to Canelo-Kovalev, Looking Back at Robinson-Maxim Will boxing history repeat itself again? In modern era prizefighting it is almost unheard of for a reigning...
A New Book Publishing House Devoted to Boxing Clocks in with a Classic It goes without saying that these are perilous times for the print media...
The recent deaths of two former ring personalities went largely unnoticed. On June 26, Willie “The Worm” Monroe passed away at age seventy-three. Three weeks earlier,...
The great Sugar Ray Leonard, he of the five retirements from boxing that didn’t stick, was musing about the reasons why aging boxers of all levels...
The capstone of the annual Hall of Fame Weekend at the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York, a four-day event, is the ceremony...
It’s been said — and it applies to all sports, but especially boxing — that in order to be great, one has to face great competition....