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Farhood was born in [[Brooklyn]], New York, to [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] parents.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GdM5hQwlvPQC&pg=PA199|title=The Greatest Sport of All: An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing|last=Hauser|first=Thomas|date=August 2007|page=199|publisher=University of Arkansas Press |isbn=9781557288592}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bwaa.org/jschool.htm|title=Boxing Writers Association of America profile|access-date=5 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Thomas Hauser |title=Steve Farhood |url=http://www.secondsout.com/features/main-features/steve-farhood |website=Secondsout.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313152848/http://www.secondsout.com/features/main-features/steve-farhood |archive-date=13 March 2012}}</ref> Farhood began writing for [[Stanley Weston]]’s G.C. London publishing |
Farhood was born in [[Brooklyn]], New York, to [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] parents.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GdM5hQwlvPQC&pg=PA199|title=The Greatest Sport of All: An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing|last=Hauser|first=Thomas|date=August 2007|page=199|publisher=University of Arkansas Press |isbn=9781557288592}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bwaa.org/jschool.htm|title=Boxing Writers Association of America profile|access-date=5 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Thomas Hauser |title=Steve Farhood |url=http://www.secondsout.com/features/main-features/steve-farhood |website=Secondsout.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313152848/http://www.secondsout.com/features/main-features/steve-farhood |archive-date=13 March 2012}}</ref> Farhood began writing for [[Stanley Weston]]’s G.C. London publishing in 1978, covering [[professional wrestling]] and boxing.<ref name=pop>{{cite web |last1=Langmead |first1=Jon |title=It’s All True!: Weston Magazines and Wrestling’s “Creative Journalism” |url=https://www.popmatters.com/its-all-true-weston-magazines-and-wrestlings-creative-journalism-2495389852.html |website=[[PopMatters]] |access-date=8 July 2025}}</ref> Working for Weston, Farhood learned the concept and rules pertaining to kayfabe: the fictional aspect of professional wrestling.<ref name=pop/> |
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<blockquote>“I specifically remember that the first time I was asked to do a wrestling article, they gave me a bunch of photos, they told me what was going on, and I said, ‘Okay, do you have the phone numbers of the wrestlers so I can get some quotes?’ And that was met with a lot of laughs, of course, because I didn’t know that you made up the quotes.”<ref name=pop/></blockquote> |
<blockquote>“I specifically remember that the first time I was asked to do a wrestling article, they gave me a bunch of photos, they told me what was going on, and I said, ‘Okay, do you have the phone numbers of the wrestlers so I can get some quotes?’ And that was met with a lot of laughs, of course, because I didn’t know that you made up the quotes.”<ref name=pop/></blockquote> |
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Latest revision as of 15:15, 14 September 2025
Steven Farhood (born 15 February 15, 1957) is an American boxing historian and analyst.
Personal life and career
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Farhood was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Lebanese parents.[1][2][3] Farhood began writing for Stanley Weston‘s G.C. London publishing company in 1978, covering professional wrestling and boxing.[4] Working for Weston, Farhood learned the concept and rules pertaining to kayfabe: the fictional aspect of professional wrestling.[4]
“I specifically remember that the first time I was asked to do a wrestling article, they gave me a bunch of photos, they told me what was going on, and I said, ‘Okay, do you have the phone numbers of the wrestlers so I can get some quotes?’ And that was met with a lot of laughs, of course, because I didn’t know that you made up the quotes.”[4]
He later served as editor-in-chief of The Ring and KO Magazine.
He also served as First Vice President of the Boxing Writers Association of America.
Farhood has been an on-air analyst for ESPN, CNN, SportsChannel and USA Network‘s Tuesday Night Fights. He currently serves as a commentator on Showtime’s ShoBox: The New Generation.
In 2002 Farhood won the Sam Taub Award, which is given for “Excellence in Broadcasting Journalism”.[5]
