This is the result that causes the reader to perform a double place-nawet 92 years after the event: February 25, 1928, Max Schmeling (Germany) L Ko...
Jack Dempsey in RTD 3 Jess WillardJuly 4, 1919; Bay View Park Arena, Toledo, OhProbably the most wild coronation in heavyweight history. If this competition took...
O pry 6 6 children’s cameraJuly 4, 1982; Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, OhAaron Pryor, like his habit, reacted to the opening bell like a man, about whom...
Emanuel Steward would have 76 today. It’s still tough to believe that he is not there. He quickly deteriorated in October 2012, when he died. The...
Frank Bruno in Ko 2 Mike JamesonJuly 9, 1983; Divince Manor, Chicago, ThePlan 16-0 Frank Bruno consisted in going to America and putting on the wheels...
I have a lot of contacts with former-boxers and I often think that they attach great importance to the knowledge of how high they were rated...
Perhaps you saw them in the hit television program Peaky Blinders, and if you are bent literary, you may have read about them in the novel...
Kevin Mitchell in RSF 8 John MurrayJuly 16, 2011; Echo Arena, Liverpool14 months have passed since Kevin Mitchell, infamously prepared, succumbed to three anti-climate rounds by...
Tim Witherspoon in RSF 11 Frank BrunoJuly 19, 1986; Wembley Stadium, LondonNot a thriller, but those of a certain age will enjoy drifting to the times...
Several candidates were proposed for the title of the largest warrior who had ever left Africa. Dick Tiger from Nigeria was the world champion in both...
Today, the flying weight class is one of the smallest boxing departments. According to BoxRec in Great Britain, there are currently only 13 busy male fly...
Salvador Sanchez V RSF 15 Azumah NelsonJuly 21, 1982; Madison Square Garden, Novel York, NYWatching this fight today, when the great Salvador Sanchez takes the shouts...
ABA do not store formal entries, and their medical cards, once transferred by a boxer, are routinely cleaned after some time. A immense part of the...
Pernell whitaker in this 1 juan nazarioAugust 11, 1990; Caesars Tahoe, Stateline, NVPerhaps the biggest untruth in boxing is that some boxers, usually those who box...
Georges Carpentier was undoubtedly the best boxer that France ever produced. He routinely beats English fighters for fun, often very quickly. Joe Beckett was knocked out...
This week in 1963, the great Howard Winstone was on the second degree on his second Lonsdale belt and make a virgin defense of his recently...
Nigel Benn in RSF 1 Iran BarkleyAugust 18, 1990; Bally’s, Las Vegas, NVIran Barkley was removed from his shocking three -forming victory over Thomas Hearns, his...
In my last article I found that Ted Kid Lewis won the title of British featherweight at the age of seventeen. It has long been believed...
