When it comes to the newly crowned world champion who looked out at the world as if he was doomed to a long reign, the name...
To put it one way, as one fight writer did, “the best available information we have is that Charles “Sonny” Liston was born on May 8,...
Throughout his Hall of Fame career, Carl Froch has only met one man he couldn’t beat, and that man was Hall of Fame inductee Andre Ward....
How great and unique was heavyweight contender Ron Lyle? How gigantic? I would go so far as to say that ex-con turned all-around good guy Lyle...
Talk about a highly hyped fighter who was completely and ruthlessly exposed. On this day in 1977, 26-year-old “Great White Hope” Duane Bobick, trained by the...
One of the sport’s truly good guys, former two-time WBA welterweight champion Mark Breland, turns 60 today. One of the greatest American amateur boxers in history...
During the linear era, John Henry Lewis was one of the world’s greatest lithe heavyweight champions, dominating the division in the mid-1930s in much the same...
How would you title the Dream Fight – perhaps the biggest, most fascinating, most controversial Dream Fight imaginable – between the two Sugars, Robinson and Leonard?...
For many fight fans, the dream fight that is simple to dream about is a fight between Mexican legend Julio Cesar Chavez and the 50-0 fighter...
40 years ago today, the amazing ring fighter Bobby Chacon, a fighter of the highest caliber of blood and courage, a man who apparently never took...
Promoter Eddie Hearn says he doesn’t see Vasiliy Lomachenko winning multiple rounds against undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney this Saturday night in their headliner on ESPN...
The great, incomparable Sugar Ray Robinson – for many the BEST Sugar in the boxing world forever and ever, amen – has died at the age...
In 1998, Donald Trump was just Donald Trump, but he had plans for a fight that would change boxing. Well, that was his spiel at the...
Born in Merida, Venezuela in December 1981, Edwin Valero became a favorite among fight fans thanks to his simply incredible series of knockouts. Valero is still...
ON SATURDAY, July 26, 1890, a challenge appeared in The Times Sports life “Harry Peter, of Islington, says he is surprised that Joe Caly is challenging...
Mike Weaver, one of the more underrated heavyweight champions, one of the so-called “lost generation” of heavyweights who held the world title on a rotating basis...
Ernie “Indian Red” Lopez Born: September 23, 1945 at Fort Duchesne, Utah. He died: October 3, 2009 in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Record: 61 fights, 49 wins...
Today, if he were alive, if he had not been so cruelly taken from us, and most of all from those closest to us, the Marvelous...
