Most boxing careers reflect a variation of a bell-shaped curve. The downward slope on the right-hand side indicates the decline of the fighter in question. Sometimes,...
The Friends of Tony Veranis, Part Two During the period between 1966 and 1976, New England’s criminal underworld included many ex-boxers from the Boston area, many...
The Friends of Tony Veranis: Part One I suspect that every writer at one time or another wished that some playwright or film maker took a...
Don Dunphy once said, “When two or more people do blow by blow….they overtalk and emphasize too much.” He was responding in 1996 to the issue...
If you happen to have a lot of time on your hands (and, unfortunately, many of us do) this might be a good time to cuddle...
The decade of the 1970’s was a great one for boxing and the Southern California scene was especially a hotbed. Throw a dart and you’d come...
More than 50 boxing notables shared their thoughts in our latest TSS survey. As is our custom, we listed the respondents alphabetically. Those with last names...
More than 50 boxing notables shared their thoughts in our latest TSS survey. They came from all walks of boxing – former fighters, officials, writers, publicists,...
Emanuel Navarrete Showing Valero-Like Traits Inside the Ring The Edwin “Dinamita” Valero story has been well told. In fact, books are now being written. Who can...
Whenever there is a big fight with a high level of intrigue, we survey members of our writing community to get their thoughts. In terms of...