Ted Sares
455 articles · PhilBoxing.com
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Has Wilder suddenly become the ?A Side? against AJ?
By Ted Sares
We will see who marches to whose marching orders, but for now, Wilder suddenly seems to have become the owner of the ?A Side? status? Off their most recent fights, it?s hard…
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The Boxer that had the Most Charisma? Ali in a Romp but Not Unanimous
By Ted Sares
In previous surveys, we asked a set of respondents to name their favorite boxing book, favorite fighter, favorite fight, and favorite round. This survey asks respondents to name the boxer ? living…
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Boxers Who Enjoyed Career Success After A Dip
By Ted Sares
Widely recognized as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, Roman ?Chocolatito? Gonzalez was on the cusp of achieving some major milestones and then disaster struck. Thailand?s Srisaket Sor Rungvisai outpointed him…
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Keeping Boxing in Perspective
By Ted Sares
So far, 2017 has been a spectacular year for boxing with the best fighting the best in great fights and with still more to come. Exciting fights seem to occur every week.…
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40 Noted Boxing Buffs Recall Their Favorite Round of Boxing
By Ted Sares
PART TWO OF A TWO-PART SERIES: In previous stories, we asked a set of respondents to name their favorite boxing book, favorite fight, and favorite fighter. This article closes the book on…
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Twenty-Five Noted Boxing Buffs Name Their Favorite Boxing Book
By Ted Sares
I recently asked a number of sage boxing people the following: ?If you had to select ONE boxing book as your favorite, what would it be?? Some chose more than one. Though…
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The Boxer Who Morphed From ?The Baron? to ?The Animal? to ?The Rat?
By Ted Sares
In 1945, the police arrested 14-year-old Joe Barboza for breaking and entering. He was packed off to the infamous Lyman Reform School in Westborough, MA, a grim ?hellhole.? It was the first…
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Vernon Forrest: A Special Kind of Person
By Ted Sares
?These are people that society turned their back on. Everybody needs help and everybody needs love?? ?If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings,…
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Career Definers: These Boxers Will Always Be Identified With These Bouts
By Ted Sares
Most boxers have that one (or two) fights that define their careers. Of course none can top Buster Douglas when it comes to that one fight that was the diamond sparkling in…
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So Who?s Your Favorite Boxer? 15 Sage Boxing Buffs Make Their Picks
By Ted Sares
Recently this question was posed to me and my answer was almost Pavlovian. Vasyl Lomachenko is my favorite because of his athleticism and reflexes. I was then asked who my all-time favorite…
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When The Gates Opened for the Great Flood of Eastern European Boxers
By Ted Sares
Difficult-to-pronounce Eastern European names that often end in a ?v? ?y? or ?o? now dot the boxing landscape. And there are plenty of imposing nicknames to accompany them like ?Zar,? ?The Eagle,?…
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Vinnie Curto vs. Roger Phillips: Our Tale Begins With This Tawdry Mismatch
By Ted Sares
There is nothing ?Rockyesque? about this tale. No, this about two boxers who went through varying degrees of hell in their personal lives. Only one persevered despite adversity, turmoil and abuse of…
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Menayothin Closing on Mayweather?s 49-0 Record
By Ted Sares
Underneath the glitter and hype of Canelo vs. Golovkin, the prospect of Mayweather vs. McGregor, and the reality of Kovalev vs. Ward, something has been going on that has received minimal attention…
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The Year 2009 Was a Year of Shock and Sadness in Boxing
By Ted Sares
It started in the early morning hours of April 27, 2009, when former WBA heavyweight champion Greg Page, 50, died at home in Louisville. His death was consistent with positional asphyxia, an…
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Getting to the Sunshine: The Ricky Womack Story
By Ted Sares
THE RICKY WOMACK STORY ? Thomas Boswell, the respected sports columnist of the Washington Post, once predicted that the 1984 U.S. Olympic boxing team showed promise of being just as good and…
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No Country for Old Men: Part Eight
By Ted Sares
Sometimes a fighter grows old overnight notwithstanding his chronological age. The odometer may have run up too many miles or the reflexes have disappeared (as in the case of Roy Jones, Jr.)…
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Is the Shine coming off Ortiz?
By Ted Sares
Luis Ortiz (27-0) was fined and suspended for eight months by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in 2014, after a urine sample taken after a KO over Lateef Kayode in Las Vegas…
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The Freak Show: Bad Juju for Big George Foreman
By Ted Sares
One of the most bizarre events in the history of heavyweight boxing took place 32 years ago this week. On April 26, 1975 in Toronto, George Foreman fought five men in five…
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No Country for Old Men: Part Seven
By Ted Sares
This past Saturday, April 22, in Legionowo, Poland, Krzysztof Zimnoch improved to 22-1-1 with a second round KO of 6?7? Michael ?Big? Grant who is now 44 years-old. Grant (48-7) suffered his…
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No Country for Old Men: Part Six
By Ted Sares
Bobby Gunn, 43, makes another appearance in this series as he met and KOd hapless 41-year-old James ?Jammin??? Morrow (12-21-3) in a 12-rounder at Charlie?s Harley-Davidson Dealership and Diner in Huntington, West…