Tom Molineaux and the Mule Faced Boy: Deconstructing Slave Fight Folklore February is black history month in the United States and Canada, a tradition that dates...
The late Nat Fleischer, the co-founder and publisher of The Ring magazine, the self-proclaimed Bible of Boxing, was regarded in his day as the world’s foremost...
Former featherweight and lightweight champion Frank Erne was back in the news last week with the announcement that he is entering the International Boxing Hall of...
The Sweet Science is proud to announce that BERNARD FERNANDEZ, who for the last few years has written exclusively for this web site, and frequent TSS...
On Monday of this week, voting members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, which includes an international panel of boxing historians, received the ballot for...
The birth date of many antiquarian fighters is in dispute. Joe Walcott, whose name was adopted by a man who went on to win the world...
As far back as he can remember, Randy Gordon always wanted to be in boxing. To do what, exactly, he had little clue. All that mattered...
Gerry Cooney’s life is a cautionary tale that, with a lot of effort on his part, has taken a happy turn. Beaten physically and emotionally in...
I never saw my favorite fighter in action. His last professional fight took place before I was born. There are no videotapes of him boring in,...
Anyone who’s into sports is also into making lists, and boxing fans are no different. We all tend to update our all-time and current pound-for-pound top...