Tucked between history’s infamous boxing dates, are the subtler days that reveal just as much about the sport’s character. November 17 is one of those days:...
Jack Dempsey’s First Title Defense was a Labor Day Rumpus Throughout history – although not so much anymore – boxing promoters have been keen to hitch...
Clay Moyle, a longtime resident of the Seattle area, once thought it would be cool to own a biography of every heavyweight champion of the Queensberry...
This coming Fourth of July marks the 100th anniversary of one of the oddest promotions in boxing history, the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Dempsey and...
It’s still in print. You can log on to Amazon right now and buy one for yourself, renamed, repackaged, all shiny and new. But I like...
Thomas Hauser’s Literary Notes Clay Moyle is 65 years old and has written biographies of Sam Langford, Billy Miske, and Tony Zale. He has also collected...
Gans is a wonderful fighter, but his showing in his fights during the last five months indicates that he has gone back to some extent. –...
Not all boxing trainers are wheeler-dealers like Henry Ramirez. One day he’s getting on a jet across country and another day he’s driving up the 101...
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has slowly climbed up the ladder regarding elite status in the prizefighting arena, and now I feel confident in saying he belongs at...
The Fourth Quarterly TSS Survey: Part One (A-K) — The question for our final survey of 2019 was not an easy one. “If you were to...