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Boxing’s Writers and One-Note Journalists – July 15th, 2019
When real writers get directly (or indirectly directly) called out on their work without an acknowledgement of their craft, well…pearls to swine…
Boxing’s Necro-Journalism (They Say Harry Greb…) – July 14th, 2019
I get it. I go back and watch old fights and I grew up around some old-timers, who I cared for like family. But how much is too much?
Boxing at the Forefront of Racial Fair Play – June 28th, 2019
When people criticize boxing, let’s tell them some of the positives that the other "more elitist" sports shamefully can't claim…
Book Review: “Smokestack Lightning” by Springs Toledo – May 15th, 2019
Harry Greb was damaged. He was daring. He was wild. And he fought and lived like Jay Gatsby’s fireworks displays—bursting and colorful and explosively fast...
Joe Rollino: A man of many distinctions – March 8th, 2019
For Brooklyn kids back then, Coney Island was the world. The impressionable Rollino grew up quickly amid the fellow strongmen and bearded ladies…
The Long Count Broadcast Surfaces – January 30th, 2019
The matching radio call with the Long Count film is no revelation, but it offers a fresh perspective—to both see, and hear, the highlight of this classic fight…
Driving the Bus – January 1st, 2019
“No-one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.” So they say. And those people are right…
Brant Takes Title – October 21st, 2018
Rob Brant is more physical than Murata and has fought the better opponents. He is more vocal and exudes confidence...
The downward spiral of the Kansas Cyclone – March 14th, 2018
The sudden public emergence of Brooks as a heavyweight colossus was undoubtedly the handiwork of his manager, Mickey Curran, nicknamed “Ballyhoo”…
Ranking the best boxing US states – January 27th, 2018
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is one of the standout boxers from a state which includes Stanley Ketchel, Kid Lavigne, Ad Wolgast and James Toney…
Gus Christie’s last fight – December 14th, 2017
Several generations of Milwaukee youngsters learned to box from him, among them Spencer Tracy, later one of the greatest actors in movie history...
Outside the Ring: David Avila – November 18th, 2017
“I would like to be remembered as a game-changer. Someone who was not afraid to do what it takes to make change that is needed…”
Harry Smith: The Harlem Thunderbolt – December 13th, 2016
Despite The Ring ranking him seventh in 1929, third in 1930, and sixth in 1931, Smith never got a shot at middleweight champion Mickey Walker…
Majestic Mike Gibbons: Master of the Feint – March 9th, 2016
Just three years into his career, Gibbons caught the sometimes highly critical eye of a very significant spectator, Gentleman Jim Corbett…
Joe Frazier: Truly Alive at 205 – February 24th, 2016
Frazier is the guy who plays havoc with the minds of traditionalists and revisionists alike whenever they shuffle their all-time rankings…
Lew Tendler: Left-Handed Legend – January 7th, 2016
Lew ran up a remarkable record and was virtually unbeatable for a stretch of five or six years and well over one hundred matches...
Strange Fruit on the Middleweight Tree – December 11th, 2015
We shake our heads at such dreadful tragedies, gripped by a naïve belief that such men are somehow ageless and invincible and will outlive us all…
Gene Tunney vs. Johnny Risko: The Fighting Marine and the Baker Boy – March 4th, 2015
Tunney thought Dempsey was getting a bit long in the tooth. Gene smelled blood in the water. But first he had to take care of Risko…
The Cream Rises – February 14th, 2015
One thing that is certain is, no matter the era or the competition, the object of the game is to be the best...
Terry McGovern: The Year of the Butcher—Part Three, The Vulnerable Spot – February 8th, 2015
“It was a fight, pure and simple,” according to the New York Tribune, “one of the most brutal and ghastly ever seen in the city...”
This Round’s On Me – January 14th, 2015
Early life is often harsh and it’s this yearning to escape these harsh realities that instills a dogged determination to make it…
Greb Lite – November 10th, 2014
Harry Greb reincarnate he wasn't, nor even a shirttail relative of the legendary middleweight champion...
Boxing by the Book: "Pugilatus" by Ted Spoon – September 17th, 2014
“The greatest thing about boxing might not be the characters, fights or inspirational stories, but the promise that more are on the way…”
Gene Tunney: The King of Cool – September 16th, 2014
Quite simply, Gene Tunney just didn't fit most people’s perception of a fighting man, and for the usual trite and unfair reasons…
The 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time Part Eight: 30-21 – September 9th, 2014
There comes a time on any such list when, although not quite great themselves, the fighters considered are capable of brutalizing even the best...
The Remarkable Charlie Powell – September 4th, 2014
He was both a top defensive end for the San Francisco 49ers football team and a Top 10 heavyweight contender…
Jack Dempsey Takes on Jimmy Darcy – August 22nd, 2014
Jimmy and Jack were not strangers. Dempsey and two of the three Darcy brothers, Jimmy and Alex, were all managed by Jack Kearns…
Poison Flowers: The Tiger from Georgia – August 18th, 2014
You looked into that distinctive face of Flowers, with its penetrating eyes, and wondered what stories he would have to tell if he really opened up…
The 100 Greatest Heavyweights of All Time Part Six: 50-41 – July 30th, 2014
Something for everyone might as well mean something for everyone to complain about as far as a list such as this goes...
Freddie Steele: He Ain't Human! – July 14th, 2014
Fighters shrugged off major defeats with the resigned and philosophical air of a horse flicking away the flies…
Packey McFarland: The Art of Good Timing – May 5th, 2014
When McFarland exploded onto the world stage in the spring of 1908, he was hailed as a boxing wizard without a discernible fault…
A Shade Unlucky – April 27th, 2014
Dave Shade had a successful, lengthy and newsworthy career finishing with a record of 131 wins, 28 losses and 59 draws...
The Eyes Have It – February 27th, 2014
“Such a hold has boxing on the boys that take part in it, they are willing to risk, very foolishly, Nature’s most handsome gift – sight...”
Floyd: Money over Memories – February 2nd, 2014
Many years from now, with a silver goatee and an absence of Yes-Men, the fighter spots the businessman who short-changed his legacy...
Darcy and Sands – Gone Too Soon – January 18th, 2014
The short yet amazing careers of both Les Darcy and Dave Sands resemble the beauty and ensuing emptiness of a shooting star...
The King of Jacobs Beach – January 15th, 2014
When Tex Rickard and Jack Dempsey faded away, along came Mike Jacobs and Joe Louis. Not a bad substitution…
Rare Film Surfaces – January 13th, 2014
Mike Gibbons was one of the early pioneers of the “sweet science,” wherein footwork, timing, distance and balance were fundamental to the art…
Fall of Battling Siki – January 8th, 2014
I started fighting professionally at age fourteen and promoters who liked my style called me Battling Siki, which is better for a boxer than Louis Fall…
The Trouble with Harry – January 6th, 2014
There was a lot at stake, a great deal of money to lose, a social and political cost, and possibly jail. Race riots were not going to be an option…
Dancing with Tiger Flowers – November 19th, 2013
I don’t let good fortune change me. I’m still polite and friendly. Let some say I have the manners of a servant. The Lord will decide…
The Return of Andre Ward – November 15th, 2013
No matter what Ward does, however skilled, however effective, however beautiful to watch, it will never be enough for some…
Live Fast, Die Young: The Life and Times of Harry Greb – October 24th, 2013
We are rewarded with accounts of his major fights so detailed as to be the best possible substitute for actual film, film which sadly, has not survived...
I’m Harry Greb – September 10th, 2013
You don’t batter great boxers unless you train all the time. Ask some competitive distance runners who do road work with me…
Stanley Ketchel Survives – August 16th, 2013
I wouldn't have been in Ketchel’s corner, as I was jailed after my third arrest for smoking opium in a cathouse. Stanley cried when they handcuffed me in court…
The Tiger in the New York Jungle – August 9th, 2013
Before sampling the punches of New York, Jack Dempsey had taken the blows meted out by his hard life in the Old West...
“Philadelphia” Jack O'Brien: Jack the Giant Killer – August 2nd, 2013
His role model in the ring was the ex-heavyweight champion, the great Jim Corbett. Jack tried to model his private life after “Gentleman Jim” too…
Mickey Walker on Canvas – July 21st, 2013
With my wife I saw a movie based on the life of Paul Gauguin and, after maybe three viewings, I said I've got to try that…
Sold, American! – July 16th, 2013
“As a fan who held my precious baseball in such high regard, it was a kick in the balls to learn that Johnson was allowed to fight and win a heavyweight title…”
The Bridge Builder: How Robbie United the Old and New – June 14th, 2013
When most active fighters are prematurely judged against the masters of the past by the boxing fraternity, the usual thing happens...
Mike Silver on Stanley Ketchel & Others – May 23rd, 2013
“Ketchel must have been one of the most frightening guys to fight. You were probably lucky to get knocked out early by him…”