The BWAA Is Proud To Announce Its 2024 Bernie Award Winners
- JSantoliquito
- Apr 15
- 4 min read
BoxingScene.com Big Winner in 2024
BoxingScene.com was the big winner in the 2024 Boxing Writers Association of America’s Bernie Writing Awards.
Between the first, second, third place finishers and honorable mentions, BoxingScene.com grabbed 18 Bernie’s.
Thomas Hauser captured first place in both the Boxing News Story and Boxing Investigative Reporting categories and Elliot Worsell capture second place in the Boxing Event Coverage category and tied for third in the Boxing News Story category.
Thomas Gerbasi captured two third-place finishes in the Boxing Feature (over 1,500 words) and the Boxing Investigating Reporting categories as the big individual winners.
The BWAA’s 100th Annual Awards dinner is Wednesday, April 30 at the Edison Ballroom, 240 W. 47th St, New York, NY. Cocktails are at 7:00 pm while the dinner and award ceremony starts at 8:15. Tickets are $275 per person.
For further information contact BWAA president Joe Santoliquito at jsantoliquitoBWAA@yahoo.com or Gina Andriolo at Ginaandcom@aol.com.
The complete list of winners and honorable mention finishers is as follows:
BOXING EVENT COVERAGE
First Place
TRIS DIXON, “All-Action Hero Naoya Inoue Climbs Off the Canvas to Violently Knock Out Luis Nery,” Boxing Scene, May 6, 2024
Second Place
ELLIOT WORSELL, “Warrior Spirit: Daniel Dubois Sends Anthony Joshua a Step Closer to the Garden,” BoxingScene.com, September 22, 2024
Third Place
DAVID GREISMAN, “Tszyu – Fundora: Bad Luck, Good Intentions and Difficult Decisions,” BoxingScene.com, March 31, 2024
Honorable Mention:
Alan Dawson, Boxing News; Thomas Hauser, The Guardian; Diego M. Morilla, RingTV.com; Dan Rafael, danrafael.substack.com; Don Stradley, Donstradley.blogspot.com; Jimmy Tobin, Inbetweenrounds.com; David Weinberg, 973ESPN.com
BOXING COLUMN
First Place
KIERAN MULVANEY, “Pritchard Colon, Gerald McClellan, and Boxing’s Duty of Care,” BoxingScene.com, December 15, 2024
Second Place
NORM FRAUENHEIM, “Michael Carbajal Way: A Street Sign for a Hall of Famer,” 15 Rounds, March 22, 2024
Third Place (Tie)
ERIC RASKIN, “Too Much Boxing: Riyadh Season Inadvertently Makes the Case Against ‘Supercards’,” BoxingScene.com, August 6, 2024
DAVID WEINBERG, “A Black Eye for Boxing,” 973ESPN.com, November 22, 2024
Honorable Mention:
Matthew Aguilar, El Paso Times; Tris Dixon, BoxingScene.com; Gayle Lynn Falkenthal, NYFights.com; David Greisman, BoxingScene.com; Dan Rafael, DanRafael.substack.com; Jimmy Tobin, Hannibal Boxing
BOXING NEWS STORY
First Place
THOMAS HAUSER, “Ryan Garcia and the New York State Athletic Commission,” the sweetscience.com, June 23, 2024
Second Place
DON STRADLEY, “Little Giant,” Donstradley.blogspot.com, December 7, 2024
Third Place (Tie)
GREG BISHOP, “Oleksandr Gvozdyk Shows What It Means to Be Ukrainian,” SI.com, June 7, 2024
ELLIOT WORSELL, “Forget Imane Khelif and Focus Your Energy on Jarrell Miller Instead,” BoxingScene.com, August 3, 2024
Honorable Mention:
Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times; Tris Dixon, BoxingScene.com; Norm Frauenheim, 15 Rounds; Dan Rafael, danrafael.substack.com; Joseph Santoliquito, RingTV.com; David Weinberg, 973ESPN.com
BOXING FEATURE (Under 1,500 words)
First Place
CHRIS MANNIX, “Oleksandr Usyk Fights for Much More Than a Heavyweight Title,” Sports Illustrated, December 20, 2024
Second Place (Tie)
JOSE CORPAS, “Tough Tony,” MrBellersneighborhood.com, August 9, 2024
ERIC RASKIN, “The Fight for ‘The Featherweight’: James Madio, Willie Pep, and a Tale of Perfect Timing,” BoxingScene.com, October 10, 2024
DON STRADLEY, “Great Knows Great,” The Ring, December 2024
DAVID WEINBERG, “Atlantic City Trainer Celebrates 50 Years in Boxing,” 973ESPN.com, July 24, 2024
Third Place
ELLIOT WORSELL, “Pure Surreal: Four Months After His Father’s Death, Jake Limond Prepares to Fight Without Him,” BoxingScene.com, August 19, 2024
Honorable Mention:
Stephanie Bradford, Lancaster Online; Tris Dixon, BoxingScene.com; Norm Frauenheim, 15 Rounds; Joseph Santoliquito, RingTV.com
BOXING FEATURE (Over 1,500 words)
First Place
LANCE PUGMIRE, “George Foreman Parts with Car Collection: ‘I Just Closed My Eyes and Let Them All Go’,” BoxingScene.com, April 11, 204
Second Place
JOSEPH SANTOLIQUITO, “The Rise and Fall of the HBO Empire,” RingTV.com, January 2024
Third Place
THOMAS GERBASI, “All Gas, No Brakes, Heather Hardy’s Boxing Journey Continues – On the Safe Side of the Ropes,” BoxingScene.com, June 27, 2024
Honorable Mention:
Jack Hirsch, Boxing News Magazine; Chris Mannix, Sports Illustrated; Kieran Mulvaney, BoxingScene.com; Sean Nam, The Baffler; Jamie Rebner, Boxing News Online; Don Stradley, Donstradley.blogspot.com
BOXING INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
First Place
THOMAS HAUSER, “The Death of Ardi Ndembo,” The Guardian, June 6, 2024
Second Place
SEAN NAM, Vasiliy Lomachenko, Boxer, Soldier, Believer, Traitor?,” SundayLongRead.com, May 3, 2024
Third Place
THOMAS GERBASI, “Divisions,” The Ring Magazine, April/May 2024
Honorable Mention:
Tris Dixon, BoxingScene.com; Abraham Gonzalez, FightsATW.com; Eric Raskin, BoxingScene.com; Don Stradley, Donstradley.blogspot.com; Elliot Worsell, BoxingScene.com
The judges for the 2024 Bernie’s were: Ron Borges, Former Boston Globe and Boston Herald, IBHOF; Tommy Deas, USA Today Sports Network; Jason Langendorf, BoxingScene.com Editor; Bernard Fernandez, Philadelphia Daily News (retired), former BWAA President, IBHOF; Wallace Matthews, Nat Fleisher Award, former BWAA President, IBHOF; Anthony Carter Paige, WFAN (retired), former BWAA President.
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