Writer and photographer Chris Cozzone has been covering the fights since 1997. Having made his mark in journalism with extensive coverage of prisons, gangs and whores, Cozzone, living in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, at the time, started shooting at the Blue Horizon in Philadelphia.

In 2000, having moved back to Albuquerque where he’d lived in the early ’90s, Cozzone began covering fights full-time. He started up NewMexicoBoxing.com to cover the local scene, all the while covering fights for Fightnews.com in Las Vegas, Nev., Los Angeles, throughout Texas and Mexico. His work appears regularly all over the world and has appeared in publications that include Newsweek, Penthouse, Playboy, Utne Reader, Ring Magazine and Der Speigel. Cozzone also had a weekly boxing column for five years with the Albuquerque Tribune before the newspaper folded in 2008.

Currently, Cozzone covers 40+ shows a year. He is part-owner of Fightwireimages.com, a worldwide supplier of fight photos, and is also hard at work on an extensive book on the boxing history of New Mexico.

When he is not ringside at a fight, Cozzone runs a company with his partner, Natasha Chornesky. The company, Modern Tomes, Inc., specializes in personal and family histories, and documenting life events. The two live in, both, Albuquerque, N.M. and Las Vegas, Nev., with Gorgo, Grendel and Seven.