The Hauser Report: Literary Notes As years pass, memories of boxers who once captured the public imagination fade away. The number of people who were alive...
Among the regular contributors to this web site are two individuals who have achieved the highest honor accorded a boxing writer; election to the International Boxing...
Gerrie Coetzee’s conquest of defending world heavyweight champion Michael Dokes on Sept. 9, 1983, was one of the biggest upsets of the 1980s. Coetzee had failed...
It goes without saying that many of the most ballyhooed fights in boxing history have been duds. The April 30 match between 35-year-old Irishwoman Katie Taylor...
Two of the bigger boxing promotion companies bang it out on the same day with rival fight cards. One of them is extremely long. It brings...
He probably never should have lasted as long as he did. After famed boxing referee Mills Bee Lane III suffered a debilitating stroke in March 2002,...
S.L. Price Talks About the Disappearing American Heavyweight and More Multi award-winning journalist and author S.L. Price likes to call himself a “parachute guy,” meaning he...
It is human nature, one supposes, to categorize people as members of easily identifiable groups. As far as pet preferences go, there are dog people and...
Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t a boxing fan. But she did something that no other British monarch ever did. She bestowed knighthood on a professional boxer. Now,...
On January 6, 1971, Earnie Shavers, a well-touted heavyweight prospect from Warren, Ohio, fought Lee Estes at the Silver Slipper in Las Vegas. Shavers’ team on...