On Saturday night, November 6, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez scored an eleventh-round knockout over Caleb Plant at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas to secure...
The Hauser Report: Boxing Through Young Eyes My uncle died in early-October. As per his request, he was cremated and the family converged in New York...
Thomas Hauser is the Pierce Egan of our generation. Two centuries ago, Egan chronicled the goings-on in the world of prizefighting in a series of articles....
Russell Peltz’s “Thirty Dollars and a Cut Eye”: Book Review by Thomas Hauser Russell Peltz has been promoting fights for fifty years and is as much...
On Saturday night, Oleksandr Usyk won a unanimous decision over Anthony Joshua at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London to claim the WBA, IBF, and WBO heavyweight...
“I wanted to write about Muhammad Ali,” Wilfrid Sheed told me years ago when we were discussing the text that Sheed had written for an elaborate...
Triller, Holyfield, and Trump: Did Evander Get Hustled? Part Two of a Two-Part Story The last thing a fighter loses isn’t his legs, speed, or power....
Triller, Holyfield, and Trump: Did Evander Get Hustled? (Part One of a Two-Part Story) On September 11, Evander Holyfield was knocked out by Vitor Belfort in...
On September 10, Oscar Valdez successfully defended his WBC super-featherweight title with a twelve-round decision over Robson Conceicao in a bout contested under the auspices of...
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X were two of the most charismatic and important people of the twentieth century. Five years ago, Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith...