Unlike athletes in sports such as baseball and football, professional boxers have no financial safety net for retirement. In fact, only one state, California, has seen...
Professional basketball players, baseball players, football players, hockey players, and even soccer players all have negotiated benefit packages including important pension features. Because of their team...
This isn’t about a fighter biting off part of his opponent’s ear, nor is it about saying, “no mas.” Those incidents have been well-vetted. This is...
“Losing but Winning” was the title of one of my most recent TSS stories. The theme was that sometimes a fighter loses but leaves the ring...
Some might refer to it as a mugging, but a mugging takes a bit of planning and solid execution though the distinction between the two is...
Joey LaMotta once told his brother Jake, “You win, you win. You lose, you still win.” He was alluding to Jake’s next fight against inept Billy...
He says; she says. Wladimir Klitschko, who went 11 years unbeaten while unifying the heavyweight division, is purportedly considering a comeback. The noted British boxing pundit...
Heroes put others first. Heroes sacrifice—sometimes with their lives. NFL player Pat Tillman was not a boxer but he was a legitimate hero having been killed...
Ukrainian sensation Oleksandr Usyk has done everything possible to dominate the cruiserweight division and unite the four title belts. In so doing, he was everyone’s 2018...
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....