“This guy is definitely going to be heavyweight champion of the world.” That’s a bold proclamation about a 24-year-old heavyweight prospect named Efe Ajagba, one that...
In the murky shadows of heavyweight boxing, several fighters with recognizable names are jockeying to become the next Bermane Stiverne, by which we mean the next...
The MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, the largest hotel in the world, opened on Dec. 18, 1993. The Grand Garden — the “municipal auditorium” of...
Hugh McIlvanney, one of the most eloquent of wordsmiths in the pantheon of sports journalists, died on Thursday, Jan. 24, at age eighty-four after a battle...
“Get him a straitjacket!” That’s how all this craziness started. In 2002, boxing writer Mark ‘Scoop’ Malinowski stood at the back of a Mike Tyson press...
Over the years, there have been many oddities in the ring not the least of which were the “Chicken Dance” and the double knockdown. Zab vs....
Welcome to the first Quarterly TSS Survey of 2019. The following questions were asked: In the past, what ONE fighter did you most look forward to...
There are moments in life when you feel as if you somehow have been transported back to an event or an occasion that always will hold...
When WBC heavyweight world titlist Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury step in between the ropes with their monstrously long legs those fans in attendance...
As a first-semester freshman at Shelton Community College in his hometown of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Deontay Wilder had the same dream that many boys and young men...