OVER a quarter of a century ago, on July 21, 1989, near the peak of his career and looking invincible, Mike Tyson defended his heavyweight titles...
MARCEL CERDAN lived a life that sounds like a movie: a needy boy from humble origins who became a world champion, had an affair with a...
1. IN September 1962, Sonny Liston collapsed Floyd Patterson in the first round for the world heavyweight title in Chicago. Patterson had proven in the past...
HIS smile was contagious, his tears flowed shamelessly while watching melancholy movies or other people’s misfortunes. He felt as much at home in the sandbox, teaching...
1. LEONARD DORIN he fought with his idol when on July 24, 2004, at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, he challenged Arturo Gatti for the...
1. BEFORE challenging world heavyweight champion Bob Fitzsimmons in 1899, James J. Jeffries bet $5,000 against himself. He had no intention of losing, but if the...
1. VERNON FORREST was born on January 12, 1971 in Augusta, Georgia, and started boxing nine years later. The culmination of his outstanding amateur career was...
THIS fight had a tagline, “La Batalla” (The Battle), which ultimately proved correct, although for the first five rounds it was more of a flashy procession...
The crowd of 31,118 created a $220,000 gate. Each warrior received 30% of the gate. Rocky Marciano was the clear 2-to-1 favorite. There was no radio,...
I recently WATCHED Dave Allen with interest in his loss to David Price. Allen is the latest in a line of decent heavyweights to come from...
IN THE 1960s, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass recorded a gloomy, chilling instrumental Lonely Taurus which movingly captured the cheering, bloodthirsty crowds and brutality of...
“MIKE TYSON was ancient by then and I was so ashamed that I beat such a great fighter, it’s crazy. I always tell people that if...
ALEXIS ARGUELLO, the WBC lightweight champion, was an incredible fighter. And in the summer of 1982, the spider killer was planning his next move. Ultimately, he...
1. The world heavyweight title has been broken since 1978 when Leon Spinks was stripped of his WBC title for awarding a rematch to Muhammad Ali....
It is the summer of 1960. A teenager stands under a “Sugar Ray’s” sign at Seventh and 124th Streets in Harlem. He shifts nervously, looking around...
DISPUTES over fight details – location, purses, who enters the ring first and last – are part of huge boxing, but rarely apply to domestic non-title...
BRIAN LONDON Blackpool was the first post-war Briton to challenge for the world heavyweight championship twice. The first was 1959 11vol defeat by knockout to then-champion...
BORN in the Gorbals, a slum tenement house on the south bank of the Clyde in Glasgow, 5. Benny Lynch joined the local men’s boxing club...
