If one had the ability to construct a prototypical New York City boxing writer, it would be in the mold of Wally Matthews. This observation was...
Freudis Rojas Jr – his friends call him Freddy – has stopped all ten of his opponents since turning professional. He goes for number 11 on...
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...