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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Sport
Thomas Hauser

A century at ringside: the Boxing Writers Association of America at 100

Middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson, right, throws a right over the head of Rocky Graziano during their 1952 fight.
Middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson, right, throws a right over the head of Rocky Graziano during their 1952 fight. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive

When the Boxing Writers Association of America holds its annual awards dinner in New York on 30 April, it will mark the organization’s 100th dinner and the start of its 100th year of existence.

The Boxing Writers Association of Greater New York (as the BWAA was originally known) was founded by Damon Runyan, Paul Gallico, Ed Sullivan, Nat Fleischer, Edward J Neil and Wilbur Wood with the stated mission of improving conditions at boxing events for New York writers and their visiting colleagues.

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