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Tragedy has befallen former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. His four-year-old daughter Exodus was pronounced dead on Tuesday in Phoenix, after she was found with a chord from a treadmill wrapped around her neck at her home.
Her 7-year-old brother found her unconscious and alerted her mother. The mother tried to revive the child of the [...]

Greg Page, who held a version of the heavyweight crown in 1984, died in Louisville. He was 50 years old.
Here is a link to a story on Page’s passing.
http://www.fanhouse.com/news/main/former-boxing-champ-greg-page-dies-at-50/447861

Ex junior lightweight champion Kendall Holt, just off a disappointing loss to Timothy Bradley last month, plead guilty to money laundering charges. The 27-year-old New Jersey native brought money derived from drug dealing to his ex manager, Henry Cortes, who plead guilty to drug dealing in February. Here is a link to a story on [...]

John Scully was kind enough to alert us to the death of a legit good guy in the sport.
“Just dropping you –and your publication a little note on something sad that seems to have flown under the radar in the boxing world. I am in Mexico right now but I unfortunately just got word from [...]

Wladimir Klitschko and former cruiserweight champion David Haye will battle on June 20, Dan Rafael reports.
Most likely, the bout will take place in Germany.
This fight will be the most anticipated heavyweight bout since…Lord…I don’t know when….Maybe you all have a suggestion for me.

Former WBC heavyweight champion Samuel Peter weighed in at a career high 265 pounds ahead of his Friday fight with Eddie Chambers. In first fight since losing the world title to Vitali Klitschko last October, one might think Peter would want to send a message that he learned his lesson, that his fire has been [...]

Hall of Famer Chuck Bodak has died. The cutman, who lived in California, was 92.
He’d worked with Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, and Oscar De La Hoya, and was known to many fight fans for his practice of affixing pictures to his head during fights.
TSS will run a more in-depth assessment of Chuck [...]

Happy Martin Luther King Day, crew.
Here are a couple MLK quotes to chew on.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
As we head into Inauguration Day 2009, we [...]