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CJ Award: Superlative Boxing Journalism


CJ Awards The Sweet Science is the world's foremost online boxing publication. It rewards the best of the best as it appears on its website with the CJ Award, and it's no small feat to win it. Below are the Press Releases announcing past winners of the award for superlative boxing journalism.
The following is the criteria for CJ Award consideration:
  1. The story must be a minimum of 1000 words in length
  2. It must be material submitted exclusively to The Sweet Science
  3. It must have originality in approaching its subject matter, and not be derivative of previously-published material
  4. It must be well-sourced and well-documented
  5. If based on fact, it must be correct in that regard

CJ Award Winners:


New York Boxing Commission

[June, 2005]
Abramson Captures CJ Award for June
First-place honors for June went to Mitch Abramson, whose piece, entitled “New York State Commission Tests Boxers” took an in-depth look at a new experimental testing method in New York.


Oscar De La Hoya

[May, 2005]
Boxing writer and veteran observer Rein wins CJ Award for May – Abramson, Smith are runners-up
Talented freelance boxing writer Joe Rein has a style all his own. And that style now manifests itself in his being named over an accomplished field of candidates as winner of the May 2005 CJ Award, bestowed by TheSweetScience.com.


Termite Watkins in Iraq

[April, 2005]
Veteran Boxing Writer George Kimball Wins CJ Award for April - Cassidy Duo Win Runner-Up Slots
George Kimball, one of the more decorated boxing writers in the world, has added another honor to his beefy resume, prevailing over an outstanding field of candidates to capture the April 2005 CJ Award, as bestowed by TheSweetScience.com.


Irish Bobby Cassidy

[March, 2005]
Boxing writer Mladinich wins CJ Award for March - Mayo, Kimball, Knish Earn Runner-Up Slots
Native New Yorker Robert Mladinich has captured the March 2005 CJ Award, emblematic of outstanding achievement in boxing journalism, for his profile of former light heavyweight contender "Irish" Bobby Cassidy, it was announced today.


Jack 'Kid' Berg

[February, 2005]
Rendall Captures First CJ Award -- Kehoe, Tallent are Runners-Up; Special Mention For Putnam
British-based journalist and author Jonathan Rendall has captured the first-ever CJ Award for excellence in boxing writing.


TSS Photo Archive

No Gamble-Gamboa's Good
"I had a chance to see Gamboa fight on the undercard of the Malignaggi-Ngoudjo fight (actually it was after the main event, but no matter) and he really impressed me for the few minutes that the fight lasted. His amateur pedigree certainly showed. Good luck to him." ---TSS reader Dan likes the Cuban defector, what little of him he's seen

Round by Round Coverage
Oscar De La Hoya Forbes Press
Fight fans, on Saturday, May 3rd TSS will bring you Round by Round coverage of the Oscar De La Hoya v. Steve Forbes showdown live from the Home Depot Center in Carson, Ca. Join us at 10:00pm ET / 7:00pm PT for bell-to-bell coverage and ringside analysis.

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