Boxing Notes and Nuggets from Thomas Hauser Adam Pollack has written eleven books about boxing’s early gloved champions including a three-volume study of Jack Dempsey. Volume...
Boxing Odds and Ends: The Return of ‘The Nail,’ Right Hook Roxy and More You undoubtedly missed it, but Oleksandr Gvozdyk returned to the ring last...
When Hall of Fame boxing writer Bernard Fernandez set about compiling his anthology (Championship Rounds, published in 2020) he had some hard decisions to make. During...
The glimpses are not as sharp as they once were, but they still provide me with guilty pleasure. Now closing in on 85, I’m not about...
It has been said that it’s difficult, almost impossible even, to refute something you see with your own eyes. But the validity of the eye test...
Who would have thought that there would be a Manny Pacquiao fight and many people in boxing wouldn’t care? That was the case on August 21...
Seven weeks after announcing his retirement, Evander Holyfield had an about-face. The impetus was a two-day rally he attended in Philadelphia led by controversial televangelist Benny...
PART ONE OF A TWO-PART STORY. Evander Holyfield made his pro debut at Madison Square Garden in 1984 and had his final fight at a concert...
Showtime served up a tripleheader from Mohegan Sun in Connecticut on Saturday night, February 20. The centerpiece was the newly reformed, more responsible, and more mature...
The Night the Boxing Judges Took the Spotlight After 10 rounds of solid action, Colombia’s Dionisio “Mister Nocaut” Miranda (18-3-2 heading in)—a cousin of Edison Miranda–...