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2019-01-21	The Ranked World Champions of the Lesser Organizations
Besides the four "major" sanctioning bodies, there are a plethora of lesser organizations vying for worldwide recognition ranging from the near major International Boxing Organization to the relatively new Royal Boxing Organization. Some of these groups include world-class and/or world-ranked fighters among their "world" champions while others like the World Boxing Foundation, the Global Boxing Council, the Global Boxing Federation, and the aforementioned Royal Boxing Organization, at least at the moment, don't!
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-12	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part XVII- Minimumweights
The seventeenth and final part of TTR's "2018 in Review" features the 2018 activity of the ten TTR-ranked contenders for the vacant Lineal World Minimumweight title.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-12	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part XVI- Junior Flyweights
Part XVI of TTR's "2018 in Review" looks at the 2018 activity of the ten TTR-ranked contenders for the vacant Lineal World Junior Flyweight title.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-11	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part XV- Flyweights
The 2018 activity of the ten TTR-ranked contenders for the vacant Lineal World Flyweight title is the focus of Part XV of TTR's "2018 in Review".
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-11	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part XIV- Junior Bantamweights
Part XIV of TTR's "2018 in Review" peruses the 2018 activity of Lineal World Junior Bantamweight champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai and the ten TTR-ranked contenders for his title.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-11	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part XIII- Bantamweights
The ten TTR-ranked contenders for vacant Lineal World Bantamweight title and their activity in 2018 are scrutinized in Part XIII of TTR's "2018 in Review."
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-10	TTR'S 2018 in REVIEW- Part XII- Junior Featherweights
Part XII of TTR's "2018 in Review" focuses on the 2018 activity of the ten TTR-ranked contenders for inactive Lineal World Junior Featherweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux's title.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-09	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part XI- Featherweights
The eleventh part of TTR's "2018 in Review" centers on the ten TTR -ranked contenders for the Lineal World Featherweight title and their activity during the past year.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-09	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part X- Junior Lightweights
The subject of Part X of TTR's "2018 in Review" is the junior lightweight division- the ten TTR-ranked contenders for the Lineal World Junior Lightweight title and the results of their 2018 bouts.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-09	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part IX- Lightweights
The ninth part of TTR's "2018 in Review" focuses on the ten TTR-ranked contenders for the vacant Lineal World Lightweight title and their 2018 activity.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-08	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part VIII- Junior Welterweights
The activity of the ten TTR-ranked contenders for the vacant World Junior Welterweight title during the past year is examined in Part VIII of TTR's "2018 in Review."
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-07	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part VII- Welterweights
The 2018 activity of the thirteen TTR-ranked contenders for the vacant Lineal World Welterweight title is scrutinized in Part VII of TTR's "2018 in Review".
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-07	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part VI- Junior Middleweights
The sixth part of TTR's "2018 in Review" looks at TTR's ten contenders for the vacant Lineal Junior Middleweight title and their activity during the past year.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-06	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part V- Middleweights
On September 15, "Canelo" Alvarez regained recognition as the Lineal World Middleweight Champion. In Part V of TTR's "2018 in Review", his activity and that of the twelve TTR-ranked contenders for his lineal title will be examined.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-06	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part IV- Super Middleweights
The fourth part of TTR's "2018 in Review" shines the spotlight on the twelve TTR-ranked contenders for the vacant Lineal World super middleweight title.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-05	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part III- Light Heavyweights
2018 saw a new Lineal World light heavyweight champion crowned. Part III of TTR's "2018 in Review" examines how the new champ and the eleven TTR-ranked contenders for his title did last year.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-05	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part Ii- Cruiserweights
Part II of TTR's "2018 in Review" focuses on the activity of World cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and the ten contenders for his lineal title.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2019-01-04	TTR'S 2018 IN REVIEW- Part I- Heavyweights
Part I of TTR's review of 2018 focuses on the 12 heavyweights currently ranked by the participating members of TTR as being the best currently campaigning in the division.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2017-07-04	Boxing in Afghanistan- Then (2012) and Now (2017)
On February 24, 2012, in the main event of a card held in Hamburg, Germany, Afghan-born Hamid Rahimi stopped Ruslan Rodzivich in the 8th round to win the vacant World Boxing Union (Germany-based version) world middleweight title. While winning a "fringe" world title may not be viewed as a "big deal", in war-ravaged Afghanistan, Rahimi's win over Rodzivich was viewed as heroic.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2017-06-05	TTR Expert Panel: Andre Ward vs Sergey Kovalev 2
We're closing in on the much anticipated rematch between Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev. The first fight was highly competitive with Ward winning by a close, controversial decision. Fans and Press alike have been split on who deserved the win and, naturally, the rematch is expected to be highly competitive as well. Here is an inside look as the13thround's panel of experts gives you their picks and predictions for the fight.
	Feature By: Bobby Davis
2017-06-01	The Champions.....or The Champions, The Contenders Passed Off as Champions, and The Non-Contenders Passed Off as Champions- Part III
Last year, on two occasions, we looked at where all of the organizational "world" champions stood in TTR's rankings. the second of those occasions was nearly a year ago. So, let's do it again.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2016-08-28	The Professional Career of Naoya Inoue
On Sunday, September 4, Naoya "Monster" Inoue will be fighting in his eleventh professional bout, in his sixth world title bout, and in his fourth bout as a defending world champion. Having previously gone 2-0 in WBC World light flyweight title contests, Inoue will be making the third defense of his second divisional world title, the WBO World junior bantamweight championship.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2016-06-15	The Champions.....or The Champions, The Contenders Passed Off as Champions, and The Non-Contenders Passed Off as Champions- Part II
In January, we took a look at where all of the major organizational "world" champions stood in TTR's rankings. It's time to take another look.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2016-01-18	The Champions.....or The Champions, The Contenders Passed Off As Champions, and The Non-Contenders Also Passed Off As Champions
Last Saturday night's Wilder-Szpilka WBC title match was initially billed as Brooklyn's first heavyweight title bout since James J. Jeffries knocked out James. J. Corbett in the 23rd round of a scheduled 25-rounder on May 11, 1900. But after the Glazkov-Martin bout for the vacant IBF title was added to the card, Glazkov-Martin and Wilder-Szpilka became Brooklyn's first and second world heavyweight title bouts in nearly 116 years! The bouts took place as scheduled and in attendance was none other than lineal, Ring Magazine, WBO, and IBO world heavyweight champion and WBA world heavyweight super champion Tyson Fury.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2016-01-18	34 Top 15 Welterweight Contenders
The WBC has sanctioned a bout between their #2 contender Danny Garcia and their #6 contender Robert Guerrero for their vacant "World" welterweight title.....To say the sanctioning bodies have diluted championships is an understatement. Unfortunately, it goes further than that. Not only have the sanctioning bodies dilutred championships, they've cheapened contender status as well. There are 34 top 15 welterweight contenders. "Say what?" you say.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2015-04-27	Introducing Juan Manuel Witt
Argentina has a rich history of successful junior welterweights among them Hall of Famer Nicolino Locche, former three-time WBA champion Juan Martin Coggi, and former WBA champ Ubaldo Sacco. In recent years, we've witnessed Marcos Maidana win a WBA title at 140 and then move up and win another at 147, Lucas Matthysse win the interim version of the WBC title and.....
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2011-08-10	A Look at Hugo Cazares' Reign as the WBA Super Flyweight Champion
There has been harsh criticism regarding former WBO and Ring Magazine junior flyweight champion Hugo Cazares' choice of opponents since he dethroned WBA super flyweight champion Nobuo Nashiro in May 2010. Cazares has been very active as the WBA's super flyweight kingpin, defending his title four times with a fifth defense scheduled for later this month. Has he been defending against worthy challengers or has been putting his belt on the line against, as one writer termed it, "a 115 pound bum of the month club?"
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2010-01-21	Remembering the Lightweight Champions of the '60s- Part II
In Part I, we took a look at the lightweight champions, and a lightweight title claimant, of 1960 through 1964. In Part II, we'll look at the lightweight champions of 1965 through 1969.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2010-01-21	Remembering the Lightweight Champions of the '60s- Part I
In the entire decade of the '60s, only five men had the distinction of being the world lightweight champion and a sixth was recognized briefly as the world champ by the Michigan commission. When the decade began on January 1, 1960, Louisiana's Joe "Old Bones" Brown was universally recognized as the world lightweight champion. No one disagreed- The Ring, the New York State Athletic Commission, the European Boxing Union, and the National Boxing Association (which would be re-named the World Boxing Association in 1962) all recognized him as the champ.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2009-04-29	THE HISTORY OF THE FLYWEIGHT DIVISION SINCE JANUARY 1937- Part V
Part IV ended with the year 2006. The lineal championship still belonged to WBC champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam. Vic Darchinyan held the IBF and IBO titles and Omar Narvaez was still the WBO champ. Injured WBA champion Lorenzo Parra was inactive but the WBA crowned an interim titlist before the year was over, former WBA light flyweight champion Roberto Vasquez. We start Part V with 2007, a year in which only one of the fighters who began the year as a flyweight champion was still a flyweight champion when the year ended.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt

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