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Fallen Soldiers: In Remembrance of Elijah P. “Smuggy” Hursey
Elijah P. “Smuggy” Hursey was only 21-years-old when he fought his last battle near the frozen Manchurian border in late November 1950. A few years earlier, boxing only a couple of miles from where…Read More
ARTIE LEVINE 1925-2012
**** “Yes, I was the first guy to knock him out. They gave him a long count….I knocked him out, but they gave him a 20-second count. There was a riot at ringside. They protected him at Cleveland.…Read More
The Clock Strikes Thirteen: The Best of TCS, 2011
**** Boxing Needs You, Baby! On Arum, Pacquiao, & Mosley Professional logicians would go mad, like blindfolded chess players, trying to make sense of boxing, its followers, and that strange hydra-headed…Read More
Sweet Victory: The Night Sugar Ray Robinson Won His First World Title
After years of waiting for a crack at the welterweight title, Sugar Ray Robinson finally got his chance on December 20, 1946, against hard-hitting Tommy Bell. Sugar Ray Robinson pulled himself up onto…Read More
PERSPECTIVE
“Whenever my car was parked in front of my cafe, the grownups liked to drop in for a drink or for some fried chicken. They knew that if my car was parked out front, I was inside and they wanted…Read More
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TCS In The Queensberry Rules
I have a piece on underrated 1940s middleweight Georgie Abrams featured in The Queensberry Rules, a…Read More
RINGWORM: Floyd Mayweather Jr. VS. Some of the All-Time Greats? No Contest! (Uh-huh)
The Ring has taken its share of punches lately because it is owned by Golden Boy Promotions, but this…Read More
¡FENÓMENO! How Jose Basora Spanked Jake LaMotta, Smacked Fritzie Zivic, Spooked Out Sugar Ray Robinson & Wound Up Nearly Forgotten
***** Jose Basora, one of the toughest, sharpest dressed middleweights of the 1940s, owed his extraordinary…Read More
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