William Nack came late to sportswriting, but once he did, it was gangbusters. Nack, who would have celebrated his 81st birthday on February 4, spent 11...
In our annual year-end necrology, we say goodbye to those that left their mark on the noble but too-often unforgiving sport of boxing. Many of the...
There was bad news today on the boxing front. World class ring announcer David Diamante was critically injured in a motorcycle accident. Earlier in the day,...
On Sept. 9, 1978, a Bayonne, New Jersey brawler who was billed as Rocky Estafire when he was first starting out, stopped slick Bobby “Boogaloo” Watts...
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...
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...
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...
On Saturday, April 10, Ebanie Bridges fought Shannon Courtenay for the vacant WBA world bantamweight championship. The fact that Courtenay-Bridges was a “world championship” fight is...
Remembering Lightweight Contender Frankie Narvaez, Boxing’s Peerless Riot-Maker The death earlier this month of Marvin Hagler evoked memories of his bout in London with Alan Minter....