Ismael AbduSalaam is the founder and chief editor of BeatsBoxingMayhem.com. He is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) and has written about boxing, music, film, and true crime for over 10 years. He is currently working on an organized crime book tentatively titled Terrors of Brownsville, which tells the true story of the rise and fall of four brothers during Prohibition-era NYC. A New Jersey native and lifelong Knicks fan, AbduSalaam is presently based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Adam Abramowitz is the founder and head writer for Saturday Night Boxing. In addition, he is the moderator of the online Saturday Night Boxing community, featuring discussion and opinion from boxing fans around the world. Abramowitz lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States.
Matthew Aguilar is a columnist and sportswriter. Over his nearly 30-year writing career, he has contributed to Associated Press, USA Today, The RING, Ringside Seat, many newspapers within the Gannett newspaper company and his hometown El Paso Times, where he covered everything from college football and basketball to rodeo. His true love has always been boxing. Now based in Chicago, he is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and is a voter for the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the El Paso Boxing Hall of Fame in 2013.
Chris Akers has contributed to various websites since 2007, including Ultimate Boxing Results, East Side Boxing, Box Rec News, and currently writes for Fight Post. He has earned a degree in Psychology, is the ghostwriter of the autobiography King of The Journeymen (about the life of the boxer Peter Buckley), and is working on his second book. Akers resides in Birmingham, UK, and also votes on the women’s rankings. He is the Secretary of the Board.
Ramon Aranda is the founder and editor-in-chief at 3 More Rounds. He also co-hosts the 3MR Podcast and is a contributor to Primer Round Magazine. Originally from Los Angeles, he currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Daniel Attias of Sydney Australia, has contributed to various print and online media including Fox Sports Australia, Aus-Boxing, The Fight City and Australian Boxing Legends magazine. He is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and is an elector for the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Gonzalo Baeza is a writer and editor. He has been a Latin American correspondent for United Press International and worked as an editor and writer for different advocacy organizations and labor unions. He is currently writing a novel about boxing, his second work of fiction after the short story collection La ciudad de los hoteles vacíos (The city of vacant hotels: Madrid, Spain, 2012; Santiago, Chile, 2014; New York, 2015), which is currently being translated to English and French. A boxing fan for over 30 years, he was born in Houston, Texas, grew up in Santiago, Chile, and lives in beautiful Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Leonardo Benatar is a boxing writer and commentator with more than 18 years of experience. He is the host of ADN Boxeo at ClubOctober947 FM radio station, color commentator and live interview reporter for Directv Sports and TNT Box, and head of the boxing department at the ETER School of Sports Journalism. He was also a boxing writer for Argentina’s Ringside Magazine for several years and several other sports media as well. Benatar lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Matthew Brown is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, and head writer of Brunch Boxing Media. Matthew also serves as the host of the Brunch Boxing podcast, where he co-hosts with Ezra Hernandez to deliver in-depth interviews, discussions on fights, prospects, and industry developments. He is based in New York City.
Shaun Brown has been writing about boxing since 2008. Since then he has been published with various outlets such as Boxing Scene, Sky Sports, ESPN, RING, Boxing Monthly and more. He is a member of the BWAA and lives in a small Scottish village with his wife and four children. He began working for the publication Boxing News in April 2023.
Alejandro “Alex” Burgos is a lifelong fight fan who has been covering the sport of boxing for 10 years. He is a former Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report and the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Round By Round Boxing. He is a professional blogger, SEO Consultant and Marketing Director at Capital Practice Consulting in Washington, DC.
Michael Carbert is the founder and editor of The Fight City.com and has published work in various magazines and newspapers. He lives in Montreal.
Lázaro Malvarez Cárdenas, born in Havana, Cuba, is a boxing journalist, commentator and presenter who also votes on the women’s rankings. His first live boxing experience was the inaugural World Amateur Boxing Championships in Havana in 1974. For nearly 25 years, he has covered world title fights, amateur championships and the Pan American Games. Based in Costa Rica, he is Chief Information Editor for Central Television News and is widely regarded as the country’s “Voice of Boxing”. He founded and directs the nationally broadcast boxing programmes Sports Program and Neutral Corner, and has also worked with Boxing Channel and Boxing Zone. He speaks Spanish and Russian fluently, with working knowledge of English, Ukrainian, Italian and German.
Matt Christie has been the Editor of Boxing News since 2015. The weekly publication was founded in 1909 under strict guidelines to be true, impartial and independent. Those values remain today. Matt is a member of the BWAA, winner of the Specialist Correspondent at the 2021 British Sports Journalism Awards and picked up the Reg Gutteridge Award for services to boxing in 2018. He has travelled the world to cover boxing at ringside. He has appeared on, among others, Sky Sports, BT Sport, BBC and HBO as a boxing analyst. He lives on the south coast of England in the seaside town of Worthing.
Anthony Cocks has covered boxing for more than 20 years. He is the former editor-in-chief of DoghouseBoxing, the former Australian correspondent for Boxing Monthly and is the current news editor of Ringnews24. He also votes on the women’s rankings, contributes to Maxboxing and The Grueling Truth, and is a regular guest on The Unofficial Scorecard Podcast.
Jose Corpas is the author of New York City’s Greatest Boxers (Arcadia, 2006) and Black Ink: The Panama Al Brown Story (Win by KO, 2016). A boxing historian, trainer, corner man, and a member of the New York Hall of Fame committee, he is also a former professional fighter who trained under Tony Pellone and Tony Ayala Sr. and once took a lesson from Sandy Saddler and Gil Clancy. Corpas has also sparred Hector Camacho, Saoul Mamby, and Jesse James Leija. His writing appears on various websites, including The Sweet Science and Boxing.com and has been recognized by Glimmer Train and The Best American Sports Writing 2018. He lives in New York City.
Antoine Patry DesLauriers is the founder of The13thRound.com (TTR). He is also the administrator of the TTR Boxing Forum. Antoine has been watching and/or listening to 20 or more boxing cards per week for more than 2 decades. Since October 2006, he has provided the members of The13thRound.com with video highlights, gifs, scouting reports, commentaries, posters, and articles in his website’s forum. Antoine is also a tireless researcher garnishing the website with “old school” pictures and articles. He was born and lives in Quebec, Canada, and also votes on the women’s rankings.
John Einreinhofer, originally from Newfoundland, New Jersey, is a boxing commentator, podcaster and writer with a lifelong passion for the sport. He has attended major bouts including Morales–Barrera I, Holyfield–Lewis I and De La Hoya–Vargas, and has seen legends such as George Foreman, Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr., Miguel Cotto and David Tua compete live. He specialises in analysing and forecasting boxing performances. A graduate of Ithaca College and the West Virginia University College of Law, he has practised litigation for nearly three decades across New Jersey, Ohio and West Virginia. A former football and track athlete, he remains an avid runner and divides his time between the Charleston, West Virginia area and Newfoundland, New Jersey.
Oliver Fennell is a British boxing writer based in Bangkok and also votes on the women’s rankings. He has covered boxing since 2000, most notably for the UK weekly magazine Boxing News, for whom he is currently the Thai correspondent. His specialties are the heavyweight division, and British, American, and Asian boxing. Oliver has also covered many boxing topics and matches for a range of newspapers and websites and is a contributor and editor for the BoxRec database.
Jeremy Foley, one of the three chairs for both men’s and women’s boxing rankings, is an archivist of fight films and the founder of Pound4Pound Ireland. His specific areas of interest include boxing politics, PEDs in sport, and the heavyweight division. Foley lives in County Kerry, Ireland.
Stewart Howe is a founding member of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and is our Tech. He has worked closely with boxing personalities on both sides of the ropes and on both sides of the Atlantic. Howe lives in Peterborough, England.
Marquis Johns is a boxing writer whose works have appeared on Big Fight Weekend and NY Fights. He also hosts the “Say What You Say Boxing” podcast that provides insight on the sweet science. A longtime Tampa native, Johns currently resides in Denver, Co.
Sasha Jones is the co-founder of Women’s Fight News, a digital media platform dedicated to covering and promoting women’s boxing. She produces news, fight previews, rankings content, event coverage and social-first storytelling aimed at increasing the visibility of female fighters and the sport worldwide. Sasha is also an elector for the International Boxing Hall of Fame’s Women’s Modern category and votes on the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board’s women’s rankings. She is based in Liverpool, England.
Hao Le is a freelance writer. He specializes in combat sports and has covered MMA (ONE Championship and UFC), local events, and traditional martial arts tournaments, but his main forte is boxing. Le has trained as a boxer since he was 14 and resides in Ho Chi Minh City, district 1, in Vietnam.
Jorge Lera is a sports journalist from Madrid, Spain. He has been the boxing commentator at Eurosport in Spain since 1994. Prior to that he commentated for the weekly programme Súper Boxeo on Antena3 TV. He regularly collaborates with radio stations and in written media.
Matt McGrain, a boxing historian, analyst, and lifelong student of the sport, is a writer for East Side Boxing, Boxing.com, and The Sweet Science. McGrain lives in the Highlands of Scotland.
Parth Mehta won a Bronze Medal at the Maharashtra State Boxing Championships in 2014 and is a student at Symbiosis Law School in Pune. He is a participant in the Law in Sport Mentorship Programme with internship and research experience in sports law. Mehta speaks six languages and has published articles in several sports law blogs, including Lex Sportiva. Originally from Mumbai, he currently resides in the city of Pune, India.
Yuriko Miyata of Tokyo, Japan, is a former freelance sports writer and editor of Japan’s Boxing Magazine for seven years. She moved to Los Angeles to observe the American boxing scene and returned to Japan four years later to found Boxing-Zine.com along with other boxing writers and a photographer. Miyata is editor-in-chief. She has also been a member of the Eastern Japan Boxing Association Monthly Prize selection committee since 2011.
Diego Morilla is an award-winning boxing writer with more than 25 years of experience in the game, writing in both English and Spanish. He is a regular contributor for RingTV.com and a freelance writer for several media outlets including Boxing News (UK) and others. He was a boxing writer for ESPN.com/ESPNdeportes.com for several years and was the first-ever bilingual writer for HBO.com, as well as for a number of other sports media outlets such as MMA Junkie, MaxBoxing.com, PSN.com, XN Sports.com, Latino Boxing, Lo Mejor del Boxeo, and many others. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and also votes on the women’s rankings.
Gautham Nagesh is a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal. He is the founder and editor of StiffJab.com, one of the most popular boxing and MMA sites on Tumblr. His boxing writing has been featured by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Hill, NPR, BoxingScene, RingTV.com, and The Queensberry Rules among other outlets. Gautham grew up in Jackson, Michigan and now resides in Detroit. He began learning to box in 2010.
Alister Scott Ottesen is the official Transnational Boxing Rankings Board historian and is based in Norway. He has done work for Norwegian newspapers, television, and contributed with research to several boxing related books. Ottesen is also a contributor and editor for BoxRec.com and a member of the International Boxing Research Organization. He owns one of Europe’s largest collections of boxing books and magazines.
Harry Otty is a boxing historian, author, coach, and competitor. A member of the International Boxing Research Organization and staff historian and writer at the Cyber Boxing Zone for over ten years, he has also compiled and written research articles for the Merseyside Former Boxers Association newsletter ‘Mugs Alley’ and was Associate Producer for the cable TV program Boxing’s Greatest Champions. He is the author of Charley Burley and the Black Murderers’ Row and also published Jerry Fitch’s recent biography of Jimmy Bivins. Otty has been involved in boxing for close to 40 years and has coached a number of national amateur champions in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Originally from Liverpool, England he now lives in Auckland where he is attempting to grow his ‘micro-press’ of specialist boxing and wrestling titles.
Vittorio Parisi, a former member of The Ring Ratings Advisory Panel, is a boxing historian, analyst, and member of the editorial staff of boxeringweb.net, the main Italian boxing website and one of the most followed in Europe. In recent years, he has been a boxing analyst for EurosportTelevision and Dahlia TV, as well as a journalist for the Italian Boxing Federation Magazine. He is involved in the boxing book series at BradipolibriEdition and is the author of Gong! A History of the Middleweight and Heavyweight Divisions, The Uncrowned Kings, and “Fix!” Mob, Corruption, and Exploitation in Boxing. Parisi lives in Brescia, Italy and is one of our three chairs for both men’s and women’s boxing rankings.
Per-Ake Persson is a boxing writer/record keeper based in Lund, Sweden. He has covered boxing since the late 80´s for Boxing Update, Fight Fax, Boxing News, USA Boxing News, and a number of websites including knock-out.dk and Boxing Scene. Persson’s specialty is boxing in continental Europe and he also votes on the women’s rankings.
Frankie Piñero began writing for Boxeo Editores in 2008 and later for Boxeo Mundial. In 2013, he became one of the original contributors at La Esquina Neutral and manages his own Facebook page called El Caballero del Boxeo. He has interviewed Wilfredo Mendez, Jose Pedraza, Javier Fortuna, Julio César Martínez, Angel “Tito” Acosta, Arely “La Ametralladora” Mucino, Francisco “Chihuas” Rodríguez, and Yordenis Ugas among other. Piñero also collaborates on a talk show called El Boxcast every Sunday and has been a commentator on local boxing cards and podcasts.
Alex Pierpaoli, one of our social media managers, became obsessed with the Sweet Science in 1985. He runs the websites KOFantasyBoxing and FistThingsFirst and has been a contributor to the Talkin’ Boxing With Billy C show since July of 2010. Pierpaoli, who also votes on the women’s rankings, is a member of IBRO and helps Billy C spotlight past ring-greats each Wednesday in the show’s “Blast from the Past.” His writing was included in the anthology The First Black Boxing Champions by Colleen Aycock and Mark Scott. He lives in Hamden, CT where he continues writing, acting and selling comic books.
Ken Pollitt is the Main Page Editor and Rankings and Results Editor at The13thRound.com (TTR). A lifelong boxing fan, his first boxing-related memory is of his father and his uncle arguing about who won the first Floyd Patterson-Tommy “Hurricane” Jackson fight. He lives in Valley Stream, New York with his wife Cynthia. They became grandparents in August 2013. Pollitt also functions as one of our official boxing record-keepers and is one of our three chairs for the women’s rankings.
Cliff Rold is the creator of “The Corner Stool” boxing Substack. Cliff was previously a managing editor at Boxing Scene and a contributor from 2007 until 2024. His work has also appeared in Ring Magazine and online at Fox Sports. He is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and a founding member of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. He is also one of our three chairs.
Mikko Salo got the spark to boxing fandom as a 10-year-old from watching Hagler vs Hearns. Over the years he has contributed to SecondsOut, Max Boxing and Boxing Scene, writing mostly about the heavyweight division and covering the fights in Finland. He has a Master of Laws degree from University of Helsinki and works as Executive Director of Loimu, trade union for professionals in the natural science, environmental and forestry sectors. As an athlete Mikko played American football in the Finnish Championship League in the 1990s, winning the Finnish Championship. Besides boxing, he is an avid fan of Chicago sports teams (especially the Chicago Bears), from his days as a high school exchange student in Chicagoland. He resides in Vantaa, Finland and also votes on the women’s rankings.
Mauricio Salvador is a Mexican writer based in Mexico City. He is the author of Casanova. Rodolfo Casanova y la Temporada de Oro del boxeo mexicano (2013). He is also a founding member of the magazine Esquina Boxeo and La Dulce Ciencia Ediciones, a press house dedicated to the world of boxing. Currently, he is working in two boxing-related projects: a novel, and a history of the first years of Mexican boxing (1895-1944).
Michael Shepherd‘s passion for the sweet science began over twenty years ago after watching Roy Jones Jr. and Mike Tyson. He has been writing about boxing for various outlets including Firstclassboxing, Topclassboxing, thaboxingvoice and Bigwritehook magazine. In addition to writing, he co-hosts a weekly boxing podcast called “Loaded Gloves.” Born and raised in England, he has lived in California since 2014.
Brandon Stubbs is a writer and radio host born and raised in Kansas City, MO. He is the founder of Punch2TheFace.com and writing contributor for The Title Fight. When not covering the great sport of boxing, Stubbs is a contributing MMA writer for Bad Culture.net He is a lifelong Dallas Cowboy fan, who is always heartbroken in early January.
Alexey Sukachev holds a Ph.D. from Moscow State University and hails from the Kon’kovo district of the Russian capital. He is very likely to be found sitting ringside at major boxing shows and local fight cards alike in Russia. A former international editor at Fight News and currently an Eastern European and international editor at Boxing Scene, he is also a boxing columnist for Sports.ru and has written for numerous other outlets in Russia and Ukraine. Alexey lives with his wife Irina and daughter Dasha in Moscow.
Rey Tecson is a Filipino boxing writer based in Kuwait. He is the founder and editor of TheBoxingDiary.com and his work has appeared in BoxingNewsandViews.com.
Springs Toledo is the author of Smokestack Lightning: Harry Greb, 1919 (2019), Murderers’ Row (2017, 2020), In the Cheap Seats (2016, 2021) and The Gods of War (2014, 2019). He is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA), International Boxing Hall of Fame Committee, and Ring 4 Boston. An essayist and boxing historian, his work has been published by Ploughshares, Salon, and City Journal, featured on NPR’s “Here & Now,” recognized 45 times since 2010 with BWAA Writing Awards, and honored in Best American Essays 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023. He is also a founding member of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and functions in the role of Oversight. Toledo is a native of Boston, Massachusetts.
Luis Torres is a Puerto Rican boxing fan/writer. He is the founder and editor in chief of Revista La Pelea, a boxing magazine published in Puerto Rico. Luis is a former amateur boxer and a contributor for many boxing websites both in Spanish and English languages since 2007. He is one of the board’s social media managers.
Paul Upham, of New South Wales, Australia, is a television studio boxing analyst for Fox Sports News. He has appeared live on air as a boxing commentator for Main Event, Sky Channel, Sky News Australia, SBS television, Radio 2UE Sydney, Radio SEN Melbourne, Radio ABC, and Gadigal Koori Radio. He emceed the Australian Boxing Hall of Fame from 2006 to 2010 and was the host of the Kostya Tszyu Live Stage Show, which performed around Australia. Upham is also a former columnist for The Fist magazine and content editor for SecondsOut, a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and The Ring’s World Ratings Panel, and the author of three books: Australian Boxing Almanac (2005), Something Worth Fighting For (2007), and Undisputed: A Golden Era in Australian Boxing (2010).
Dave Wilcox lives in Southern California and has been following boxing for forty years. He has written about and covered the sport since 2003 for various outlets including Boxingscene.com, Ring Sports Magazine, Pound4Pound.com and Ringnews24.com. His work has also appeared on FoxSports.com and he was the West Coast Correspondent for the “Talkin Boxing with Billy C” radio show from 2008-2012. He is currently a member of Ring 10 and the IBRO.
Nick Wong is a freelance boxing journalist and a member of the Boxing Writer’s Association of America. His work has appeared in Gawker, Complex Magazine, and he is a regular contributor to the Fightland blog of Vice media. He spent three years training in boxing gyms of Latin America, and most recently volunteered with Fight for Peace – a non-profit organization that uses the sport of boxing to deter youth from the drug trade in Rio De Janeiro. He is based between Seattle and Brazil.
Steve Zemach is a boxing writer and sports radio host based in Ft Lauderdale, Florida. He contributes to The Queensberry Rules and has covered boxing since 2006. Zemach is a co-host on the Raineri and Zemach morning show, a radio show known for placing a emphasis on boxing.
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