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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
2009-04-29	THE HISTORY OF THE FLYWEIGHT DIVISION SINCE JANUARY 1937- Part IV
In Part III, we started in January 1975 with the crowning of lineal, Ring Magazine, and WBC champion Miguel Canto and finished with 2000, the year before Pongsaklek Wonjongkam, the man who would break Canto's record for most successful defenses by a flyweight champion, won the lineal and WBC titles. We start Part IV with Wonjongkam challenging Malcolm Tunacao.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2009-04-28	THE HISTORY OF THE FLYWEIGHT DIVISION SINCE JANUARY 1937- Part III
In Part II, we traced the division's history from Pone Kingpetch dethroning the great Pascual Perez to become Thailand's first world champion until a time in January 1975 when the again vacant lineal title was about to be filled. Part III starts at that point.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2009-04-28	THE HISTORY OF THE FLYWEIGHT DIVISION SINCE JANUARY 1937- Part II
In Part I, we examined the flyweight division from the time Benny Lynch defeated Small Montana to unify the title way back in January of 1937 until Pascual Perez was about to defend the title against Thailand's Pone Kingpetch. We continue with that bout.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2009-04-28	THE HISTORY OF THE FLYWEIGHT DIVISION SINCE JANUARY 1937- Part I
or THE HISTORY OF THE FLYWEIGHT DIVISION SINCE BENNY LYNCH UNIFIED THE TITLE The Ring lists the flyweight title as vacant while most historians recognize Japan's Daisuke Naito, the reigning WBC titlist, as the lineal champion. I'm going to attempt to trace the lineage of the flyweight title, not from the beginning of the flyweight division, but from a point where, after a long period of the title being split, there was one and only one champion. In other words, to start, I'm going to go back to twelve years before I was born.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2008-04-15	CROSS FIRE: Joe Calzaghe Vs Bernard Hopkins
On April 19th in Las Vegas, Legend and World Light Heavyweight Champion will welcome to the ring at the Thomas and Mack arena Undisputed and Undefeated World Super Middleweight Champ, Joe Calzahge. Both of these fighters traveled different paths to get to this historic fight, and two fight fans that support each of these fighters will represent their points of view on the outcome.
	Feature By: Lurkyshaka & KingGrizzly
2008-01-22	ON TRIAL: NASEEM HAMED
HAM-FISTED HORROR OR BOXING ROYALTY?
	Feature By: Kevin SinClair & Alex Neve
2008-01-17	The Michigan Assassin Stanley Ketchel
Ketchel was born on September 14, 1886 to Polish immigrants in Grand Rapids Michigan. Ketchel had no amateur background but he was a street fighter and at the age of 14 had learned to survive by fighting on those streets. It has been said that at age17 he was passing by a boxing both at a fair when he was tossed a pair of gloves and was told if he lasted 3 rounds he would get a dollar in reward. Ketchel took the challenge and knocked the star of the show out with the first punch he landed on him. Ketchel took the money he had won at the fair and decided that fighting would be his only way out. Ketchel got a job at a local casino making $20 a week taking on all comers.
	Feature By: Brad Benton
2008-01-16	Revisit: Tyson vs Douglas
Unbeatable? Well, going into February 11, 1990 we all thought he was. Some opponents had taken him to the final bell and claimed moral victories like "Bonecrusher" Smith had done, but in doing so he lost every round. "Iron" Mike Tyson was on a 6 fight Knockout streak. He had just defeated Carl Williams via vicious KO in the first round. Going into the James "Buster" Douglas fight Tyson looked pretty much like the answer to the Louis-Ali debate. Most boxing fans thought Tyson was gong to roll over Douglas early. What we couldn`t have known though was that we were going to see one of the best performances ever that night.
	Feature By: Brad Smith
2008-01-12	Bantamweight 2008 preview
2008 promises to be a very entertaining year in one of the sports most under-appreciated divisions, the bantamweights. Already, on January 10 in Osaka, Japan, WBC champion Hozumi Hasegawa (23-2, 7 KOs) and WBA champion Wladimir Sidorenko (21-0-2, 7 KOs) fought on the same card with Hasegawa out pointing WBC #1 contender and mandatory challenger Simone Maludrottu (26-2, 10 KOs) and Sidorenko out pointing WBA #4 ranked Nobuto Ikehara (27-2, 19 KOs). This is supposed to lead to a unification bout between the two champs but Sidorenko may have to face WBA #1 contender and official challenger Anselmo Moreno (21-1-1, 8 KOs). While unification should be of the highest priority, either bout, Hasegawa-Sidorenko or Sidorenko-Moreno, is certainly worth the price of admission.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2008-01-12	Steve Molitor: Fighting through Shadows
The super bantamweight division has slowly asserted itself as one of the best in boxing. It boasts a series of fighters whose pugilistic talents are as varied and unique as the men who wield them. There's the wild swinging Daniel Ponce de Leon, whose pound-for-pound power can change a bout with one punch.
	Feature By: 3Mosquitoes
2008-01-11	The Forgotten Great Gene Tunney
Born James Joseph Tunney known to the world as "The Fighting Marine" Gene Tunney.
	Feature By: Brad Benton
2007-08-09	Did Sugar Ray Leonard Duck Aaron Pryor?
Periodically, one may hear or read that Sugar Ray Leonard ducked Aaron Pryor. Being that they never fought, to the uninformed, that could be taken as the truth. But is it? Did the man who defeated Hall of Famers Wilfred Benitez, Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns, and Marvelous Marvin Hagler really "duck" "The Hawk"? Why don't we examine the two greats' careers and the related events during that era, then decide?
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2007-07-26	THE 2007 FLYWEIGHT UPHEAVAL
2007 began with 4 long-reigning champions ruling the flyweight division and with two former light flyweight champions, one already a flyweight interim champion, poised to make an impact at 112 pounds.
	Feature By: Ken Pollitt
2007-06-14	Huerta, Espinoza lash out at judges!
"I would`ve rather been knocked out than to have this fight stolen from me the way it was" said an angry Miguel Huerta after having lost a split decision to "Kid Diamond" on Versus fight night.
	Feature By: Astor
2007-05-18	New fighter for Espinoza Boxing
Check out our newest prospect Carlos Molina as he spars against 16-5 Rustam Nagaev. Molina is set to make his pro debut on May 25th at the Double Tree Hotel in Ontario, California.
	Feature By: Alphafrankie
2007-05-08	PAIN FOR LOVE: A TRIBUTE TO DIEGO
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." -TheodoreRoosevelt
	Feature By: G.H. HUBER (OLDMONGOOSE)
2007-04-15	Remembering Davey Moore
Some people know of Davey Moore only because Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs wrote songs about him. Dylan's more famous "Who Killed Davey Moore" and Ochs' "Davey Moore" were both moving indictments of all those involved in Moore's tragic death.
	Feature By: Ken
2007-03-15	CROSS FIRE JMM vs MAB
This week cross fire will feature two fo our members Lurkyshaka and cajun_tex discussing the outcome in details of this saturday fight featuring Juan-Manuel Marquez versus Marco Antonion Barrera.
	Feature By: Lurkyshaka and Cajun_tex

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