If you ask former sportswriter Steve Marantz when was boxing’s Golden Age, he’s quick with a response. His answer just so happens to coincide with the...
Boxing, baseball, college football and horse racing once ruled the American sports landscape. Of course, that was in the 1940s and 1950s when men wore suits...
Ponder this for just a moment: Jerry Izenberg has written about sports for seventy-one years. No, this isn’t a misprint. Behind a righteous conscience, a clear...
Last Saturday’s mega-fight in New York between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano was a fast and furious go that consumed 20 minutes of actual fighting. It’s...
If you’re a storyteller, and Mark Kriegel is certainly that, then boxing is the perfect passport. A multi-skilled journalist who works for ESPN on several platforms,...
The true championship distance is 15 rounds insisted Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini when pressed about it. “I have a problem with guys who only had to...
Whoever coined the phrase that “you can’t please ’em all” might have been referring to someone like Doug Blackburn, one of the rare dissenters in assessing...
When the discussion turns to one punch KO artists, Ernie Shavers comes immediately to mind—and then, upon some reflection, so does Mike Tyson, Sam Langford, Joe...
The third fight between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder will be staged at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on July 24. The pre-fight hoopla kicks...
What’s next on the docket for unified 140-pound champion Josh Taylor? There’s talk that he may move up a division to fight Terence Crawford or that...