Thomas Hauser

David Diamante To Return On Chocolatito-Martinez Card, March 5

On December 20, ring announcer David Diamante was critically injured in a motorcycle accident. Since then, he has worked tirelessly to regain a sense of normalcy in his life. This Saturday - March 5 - he will return to the ring for Matchroom Boxing's...

David Diamante Provides Update On His Condition

As reported earlier on BoxingScene.com, on Monday, December 20, David Diamante was involved in a serious motorcycle accident. David has asked that I share the following with the boxing community:

David Diamante Critically Injured in Motorcycle Accident

David Diamante (one of the preeminent ring announcers in the world) was involved in a serious motorcycle accident on Monday while riding on Third Avenue in Brooklyn beneath the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

Boxing Books - Holiday Reading: 2021

Each year during the holiday season, I publish a list of what I consider to be the best books about boxing. That list, updated to accommodate recently published titles, follows. Taken together, the books offer a compelling look at the sweet science f...

Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Damage in Boxing

By Thomas Hauser - In 1928, a doctor named Dr. Harrison Martland wrote an essay titled "Punch Drunk" that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. People knew that fighters could be severely injured in fights or even die in t...

Fred Levin: An Appreciation (1937-2021)

By Thomas Hauser - Fred Levin, the Pensacola attorney who with his brother Stanley guided Roy Jones through the glory years of Jones's ring career, died on January 12, 2021, of complications from COVID-19. He was 83 years old. Levin, like Jones, was...

The Tyson-Jones Exhibition in Perspective

By Thomas Hauser - There was a time when people who understood boxing talked about Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones as a real fight. In 1996, I had a long sitdown with Roy. Tyson had been released from prison a year earlier and had reclaimed the WBC and WBA...

What If Deontay Wilder Had Accepted DAZN's $100 Million Offer?

By Thomas Hauser - On December 1, 2018, Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury fought to a twelve-round draw in Los Angeles. The fight generated a modest live gate of $3,515,122 with an estimated 315,000 buys on Showtime Pay-Per-View in the United States and...

Wilbert "Skeeter" McClure Dies At Age 81

The sad news made its way through the boxing community today. Wilbert "Skeeter" McClure has died at age 81. McClure won a gold medal for the United States in the light-middleweight division at the 1960 Olympics. He turned pro in 1961 and won his firs...

Boxing Dishonored: The Backstory on Estrada vs. Adkins

By Thomas Hauser - Seniesa Estrada squared off against Miranda Adkins in the third fight of the evening on DAZN's July 24 return to boxing. Estrada, age 28, has a 19-0 (8 KOs) ring record and is the WBC silver female light-flyweight champion. She can...

DAZN Is Back: Will Enough People Care?

By Thomas Hauser - Live boxing is back on DAZN. On July 24, the network streamed a five-fight card headlined by Vergil Ortiz Jr's seven-round demolition of Sammy Vargas. Two years ago, DAZN announced that it was going to change boxing's business mode...

Russ Anber - The Magician

By Thomas Hauser - Go to YouTube. Type in "Russ Anber magic." Click on several of the videos that come up and you'll see a guy with a deck of cards. Or maybe he'll be manipulating three metal cups and some tiny balls. "I've seen that guy before," you...

Jarrell Miller and Boxing's PED Problem

By Thomas Hauser - On June 27, 2020, it was revealed that, once again, Jarrell Miller had tested positive for a banned performance enhancing drug. The test was administered by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) at the request of the Nevada...

Should Amateur Records Count in Evaluating Greatness?

By Thomas Hauser - I received an email recently from a reader who asked whether a fighter's amateur record should be considered in evaluating whether the fighter was great. It's a good question. Three fighters stand at the pinnacle of amateur boxing....

Jack Dempsey and the Newsboy: Debunking a Myth

by Thomas Hauser - It's one of boxing's most endearing legends. Jack Dempsey went to bed on the night of July 4, 1919, after knocking out Jess Willard to claim the heavyweight championship of the world and dreamed about the fight. Except in Dempsey's...