A fight that was meant to highlight Mike Tyson his status as the uncrowned heavyweight champion of the world only highlighted the extent of his decline...
BOXING NEWS he was 12 years senior when the first million-dollar goal made headlines around the world. It was July 2, 1921, when Jack Dempsey fought...
1. BEFORE their July 4, 1919 showdown at Bay View Park Arena in Toledo, Ohio, the heavyweight champion of the world Jess Willard he was extremely...
SINCE author Jack London called out the former undefeated heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries to come out of retirement and “wipe that golden smile” off the...
JACK DEMPSEY’s fights in the 1920s were extravaganzas and occasions. He and Luis Firpo drew 82,000 fans to the Up-to-date York Polo Grounds for an incredible...
At his peak, Ezzard Charles was a skillful, polished and precise boxer. Long before he won the world heavyweight crown in the shadows Jo LouisCharles was...
On Monday, July 7, 1980, the WBC world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes defended the title against Scott LeDoux at the Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, Minnesota....
READ the photo attached to this article. What do you see? A muscular figure striding purposefully towards a neutral corner appears on the verge of victory,...
Boxing legend and former middleweight king Jake LaMotta was born on July 10, 1922. Hardened on the mean streets of the Bronx, Up-to-date York, “The Raging...
I OFTEN see articles posted online about who is the worst boxer of all time. Some authors seem to think that the number of career failures...
INJUSTICE has been the theme of Pernell Whitaker’s career. No one should have beaten him until he met rising welterweight star Oscar De La Hoya in...
ALMOST a year after their first sensational clash, Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano reunited in Chicago. A then-record indoor crowd of 18,547 turned out on a...
1. WHEN he was still the undefeated welterweight world champion and considered, along with Marvin Hagler, the best in boxing, Donald Curry agreed to move up...
FOR a generation of juvenile Jewish men in London’s East End – the sons of poor immigrants from Russia or Poland – boxing was a possible...
RECENTLY dethroned heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey was desperate to regain his crown against ‘The Boston Gob’ Jack Sharkey in the qualifiers, in which he will face...
