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• 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…”
  
  

• Looney Tunes: Ironing Mike Tyson – May 23rd, 2013

  Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson remains a constant source of fascination. After the debacle in the second Holyfield fight, the so-called Bite of the Century, boxing folk pretty much wrote him off. Beating up Robin Givens is one thing, beating up boxing quite another. But Tyson is nothing if not…
  
  

• The Up and Down Career of Danny Williams – May 21st, 2013

  His adoring fans probably sense that Danny doesn't really know when to quit because he simply doesn't know anything else…
  
  

• The Memory Bank: Part Twenty-Three – May 19th, 2013

  
  
  

• Big Rock Candy Mountain – May 19th, 2013

  Forty-one-year-old Shane Mosley pulled a rabbit out of the hat Saturday night at the Grand Oasis Resort, in Cancun, Mexico...
  
  

• Danger Zone – May 17th, 2013

  As good and resilient as Lamont Peterson is, he is not the ultra-slick type of fighter that gives Matthysse problems…
  
  

• Mike Tyson Is Othello – May 12th, 2013

  Paul Robeson, Orson Welles, Sir Laurence Olivier, and...Mike Tyson? Well, why not? He took boxing by storm. Who's to say Shakespeare's Moor isn't next?
  
  

• The Friday Night “Mismatch” – May 11th, 2013

  
  
  

• Klitschko's Date with Destiny – May 3rd, 2013

  
  
  

• Howard Stern Interviews Mike Tyson – April 29th, 2013

  On paper it looks like a match made in heaven. Earlier today on Sirius XM, that's exactly what it was. Howard Stern, aka King of All Media, aka Shock Jock par Excellence, has been trying to get Mike Tyson on his radio program for years to no avail. But their paths have finally crossed. With Mike's one-man…
  
  

• Zab Judah Unleashed – April 25th, 2013

  "If you're going to be a gangster, be a gangster all the way. If you're going to be Al Capone, be Al Capone all the way..."
  
  

• Jim Jacobs: The Champion Film Collector – April 21st, 2013

  “I’m more smitten if a guy says he wants to see Mickey Walker in his prime rather than Sugar Ray Leonard. I admire old fighters…”
  
  

• The Protector: Detective Tim Stanton of “Boston’s Finest” – April 16th, 2013

  Boxing trainers are immortalized in popular culture as wise men that spout life philosophy masked in boxing technique…
  
  

• The Aldgate Sphinx: Ted “Kid” Lewis – April 11th, 2013

  Nat Fleischer and Charley Rose ranked him as the fourth best welterweight of all time and Bert Sugar had him as the thirty-third best boxer in history...
  
  

• Sixty Years of Excitement – April 10th, 2013

  One short definition is that excitement has something to do with provoking, arousing, or stirring up one’s emotions or feelings…
  
  

• Ten-Count for Carl “The Truth” Williams – April 7th, 2013

  “I still say that I could have continued,” Williams said. “Even Mike said the fight shouldn't have been stopped…”
  
  

• "Don King Unauthorized" Documentary – April 6th, 2013

  Don King is an institution. A self-described "black Horatio Alger," his rags-to-riches, Cinderella story is the American Dream come to life. But if we pull back the curtain and look beyond the wild hair, smiling countenance, bespoke jean jackets, and fluttering stars and stripes, a darker picture emerges,…
  
  

• Heavyweight Champions Respond – April 5th, 2013

  My presumption to rank and write about the Top Ten Heavyweight Champions provoked comments I initially considered severe...
  
  

• Shopping with Mike Tyson – April 2nd, 2013

  
  
  

• Top Ten Heavyweight Champions – April 2nd, 2013

  Let us set aside the present and recall the days of more gifted and charismatic champions. Here are the ten best heavyweights of all time…
  
  

• The 100 Greatest Fighters of All Time Part Six: 50-41 – March 28th, 2013

  Pacquiao and Mayweather had the chance to separate one from the other in terms of skill and legacy but declined—the fans are the big losers...
  
  

• The Blitz – March 25th, 2013

  The older version Of Alfredo Angulo used it at times, and so did Mike Tyson and Tommy Morrison. While each had the firepower to overwhelm his opponent early...
  
  

• The 100 Greatest Fighters of All Time Part Five: 60-51 – March 22nd, 2013

  The more the game changes, the more it stays the same: knock the other guy out. Bring home the bacon. Hit and don’t get hit...
  
  

• Real Sports: Mike Tyson vs. IRS – March 17th, 2013

  
  
  

• The Time Warp That Is Gleason’s Gym – March 16th, 2013

  During the 1940s a lot of champions came out of Gleason’s Gym. Jake LaMotta trained there, as did three-time world champion Carlos Ortiz…
  
  

• The Emmett Eliminator: The Life of Idaho Cruiserweight Kenny Keene – March 13th, 2013

  Intelligent fighters typically find a way to win. Yet a successful fighter sometimes emerges who doesn't think the least bit in the ring…
  
  

• The Brutal Separation of Man and Boy – March 10th, 2013

  At least the beaten Marvis remained standing, and there was definitely a sliver of pride in that when facing a prime Larry Holmes...
  
  

• The End of the King? – March 10th, 2013

  
  
  

• Punch Trajectories: A Study of Hard Times in Life’s Squared Circle – March 7th, 2013

  By the time of the stoppage, every punch, or even any slight touch in the vicinity of Seeger’s buzzed dome was like being struck with an anvil...
  
  

• Don King: Every Cloud Has a Hi-Yo Silver Lining – March 6th, 2013

  King could sell acne to adolescents. He could sell booty to Beyoncé. He could sell snow cones to Eskimos if he'd brush up on his Inuit…
  
  

• 60 Blows (Thoughts of a Graying Pugilist) – March 5th, 2013

  I thank boxing—it has been my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual journey. But I wonder: Has boxing formed, or deformed, me? Maybe a little bit of both?
  
  

• Herbology: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Takes a Hit – March 1st, 2013

  Former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has taken it on the chin. The punch wasn't thrown by Sergio Martinez, not this time, but by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, who saw fit to levy a $900,000 fine and nine-month suspension for the cardinal sin of smoking grass. Robert Ecksel,…
  
  

• The Grass Is Always Greener – February 28th, 2013

  
  
  

• Joe Hipp: Blackfeet Indian Reservation’s Warrior Sticks Close to Boxing – February 27th, 2013

  Hipp was born on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Montana, on December 7, 1962; his mother was a full-blooded tribal member…
  
  

• 10 Greatest Upsets in Heavyweight History – February 24th, 2013

  There's nothing like an upset to make one believe. All the questionable decisions that cast doubt on the sport are rendered meaningless when an upset occurs. And when the upset is during a contest between world-class heavyweights, the satisfaction is that much greater. This sampling covers some of the…
  
  

• Seeing Eye to Eye with Howard Schatz – February 21st, 2013

  “I wanted to say boxing. I wanted to say power and force. I wanted to say determination and courage. I wanted to say vulnerability and humanity…”
  
  

• Boxing’s Five Greatest Moments: 1990-1999 – February 13th, 2013

  Here are my picks of the five most heart-wrenching, stomach-churning, adrenaline-pumping, air-punching, on-the-edge-of-your-seat moments...
  
  

• The Czar of Bohol – February 13th, 2013

  The Czar, showing great heart, boxed beautifully with jackhammer jabs, hooks, pinpoint left hands, and uppercuts launched from his southpaw stance...
  
  

• I Beat Mike Tyson – January 30th, 2013

  On June 11, 2005, a 6'6" giant fighting out of Brockton, Massachusetts, took on the once mighty Mike Tyson. Kevin McBride, aka the Clones Colossus, was the longest of long shots going into the fight. Iron Mike was 50-5 but on the downside of his career. McBride was 32-4-1 and nobody but nobody thought…
  
  

• Dark Heart’s Cowboy vs. The Tortured Soul Kid – January 29th, 2013

  Boxing is more than difficult. It is life and death. It is basic and poetic. It is euphoric and catastrophic. It is tragic and heroic...
  
  

• Law & Disorder: WTF – January 25th, 2013

  
  
  

• Postcard from New York: Beyond Garcia and Golovkin – January 22nd, 2013

  Michael Buffer strolls by. We are lucky enough to get a one-on-one interview in a side room with Robert, Mikey, and Papa Garcia…
  
  

• Downsize Me: Chilling Lessons from Joltin’ Joe – January 16th, 2013

  Why do people find it so hard to understand that in a fight between Wladimir Klitschko and Jack Dempsey, it would be Wlad on the defensive?
  
  

• The Story of Boxing – January 15th, 2013

  Great Britain is known as the "cradle of pugilism," and for good reason. After boxing collapsed along with the Roman Empire and went into a centuries long hibernation, the wily Brits resurrected the manly art, before civilizing it with rules forbidding the game's more outre techniques. This British-produced…
  
  

• The 15 Greatest Composite Punchers of All Time – December 26th, 2012

  A great fighter is so much more than a collection of physical attributes, even if they are lucky enough to possess an absolutely extraordinary one...
  
  

• Greatest KOs in Boxing History – December 22nd, 2012

  Everyone loves a knockout. And what's not to love? When one man's fists connect with another man's head and he goes crashing to the canvas, everyone's pulse races a little faster. The knockout can not only change the direction of a fight. It can change the direction of a career, the direction of a life...
  
  

• Povetkin: Now or Never – December 19th, 2012

  It’s time for undefeated heavyweight Alexander Povetkin to step up and seek his retirement package and this means taking the obligatory beating...
  
  

• All I Want for Christmas No. 2: Manny, One for the Show… – December 18th, 2012

  The last Marquez bout will probably be Fight of the Year so why not do it again? Besides the story-line going into number five will be huge…
  
  

• The Week That Was (December 10-16, 2012) – December 17th, 2012

  After a slow start that saw his opponent land a surprising number of clean shots, El Perro did enough down the stretch to earn the victory…
  
  

• Boxing by the Book: Deirdre Gogarty’s Call to the Ring – December 16th, 2012

  Her boxing life has been (and continues to be) an uphill battle, defined by resilience, dignity, self-reflection and courage...