Seventy-five years ago this month, on Sept. 13, 1950, Jake LaMotta successfully defended his world middleweight title with a 15th-round stoppage of Laurent Dauthuille at Detroit’s...
The TSS Fighter of the Month for January is super lightweight Ernesto “Tito” Mercado who scored his sixth straight knockout, advancing his record to 17-0 (16...
Bygone Days: The Largest Crowd Ever at Madison Square Garden Sees Zivic TKO Armstrong There’s not much happening on the boxing front this month. That’s consistent...
Remembering Prizefighters Danny Nardico and Billy Murray: A Story for Veterans Day “There are now over 4000 pro boxers in our armed forces” said a story...
Caleb Plant returns to the ring on Sept. 14 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Plant, a former 168-pound world title-holder whose only two losses...
A Massive Upset in Detroit Evokes Memories of Eugene “Silent” Hairston On the face of it, last Saturday’s super lightweight contest in Detroit between Shohjahon Ergashev...
“He was a great teacher,” said Billy Conn. “[Fighting Zivic] was like going to college for five years, just boxing him ten rounds…” Fritzie Zivic never...
75 years ago this week, on Friday, Nov. 14, 1947, a near-capacity crowd of 18,340 crammed into Madison Square Garden for the weekly boxing show. The...
Glimpses into the Past (Part Three of a Three-Part Story) Tracking all the way back to the 1940’s, I have witnessed literally thousands of fights during...
A TSS CLASSIC – It was snowing when Sugar Ray Robinson and his entourage left their hotel in Frankfurt, Germany, for the short walk to the...