For British boxing, it was a good year. Here I select four categories: the British Fighter of the Year, fairly self-explanatory; the British Fight of the...
Conor Benn and Chis Eubank Jr meet on Saturday at London’s O2 Arena. The match, one might say, has been 29 years in the making. The...
The running joke is that Eddie Hearn has never turned down an interview in his professional capacity as a boxing promoter. Watch Hearn work a teeming...
It’s award season here at The Sweet Science and this year we open with the Breakthrough Fighter of the Year. The nod goes to welterweight Conor...
Ever-improving welterweight Conor Benn, the son of former two-division world champion Nigel Benn who was one of England’s most celebrated fighters, improved to 20-0 (13) with...
Through the passage of a quarter century, Tris Dixon has been at various times an amateur boxer, trainer, editor and writer. And for all this, it’s...
Conor Benn fought Samuel Vargas in London today (Saturday, April 10). Although Benn was a solid favorite, he was stepping up in class. Vargas, a 31-year-old...
A stacked weekend of marquee fights is led by top American welterweight prospect Jaron “Boots” Ennis tasked with meeting the challenge of Russia’s Sergey Lipinets in...
“During the1980s,” wrote TSS editor Arne Lang in a recent article, “Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, and Roberto Duran enlivened the sport, fighting...
Anecdotes. Everybody who has spent any appreciable amount of time in and around boxing has ’em, personal memories of notable and not-so-notable figures in the sport...