Reports from publications such as Diversity informed us that another boxing film will be made soon, this time in the biopic of former featherweight fighter “Prince”...
FORMER JUDGE Wynford Jones, like me, an area representative on the Control Board, told me last week of the recent death of Dennis Avoth on December...
We often seem to forget who the first southpaw heavyweight champion of the world was. Michael Moorer, the fierce puncher of a nasty lithe heavyweight, is...
In a recent article on Tom McCormick I told the story of how he won and lost the British title in Australia in 1914. At that...
20 years ago, the great heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko scored probably the biggest victory of his career. “Dr. Iron Fist”, one winning fight postponed his weighty...
AL FOREMAN was a warrior who made his own rules. His real name was Albert Foreman, but when he turned professional in 1921 at the age...
15 years ago today, British Hall of Fame fighter Carl Froch scored one of the most stunning last-round victories ever seen. “The Cobra,” who made his...
RECENTLY I had the pleasure of returning to his family two scrapbooks detailing the fighter’s boxing career from the 1930s. I bought these books about 20...
With depressed news, it has been reported that Dingaan Thobelo, one of the greatest players in South African history, has passed away at the age of...
I had a great time at the British Boxing Board of Control Awards luncheon on March 17 and it was great to see so many great...
While the world of boxing is buzzing with activity – thanks to the, shall we say, megacards that are presented to us, and with rapidly increasing...
Sugar Ray Robinson KO5 Gene Fullmer. Has there ever been a more glorious, stunning and attractive knockout captured on film? Probably not. It was a brilliant...
MAX BAER was one of the most colorful and charismatic heavyweight world champions of all time. It was not without reason that he was called the...
York Hall BETHNAL GREEN is London’s last surviving example of the old-fashioned diminutive halls that dominated the capital for over 100 years. Although the hall only...
On February 27, Joe Taylor from Leyland died just two days shy of his 89th birthdayvol birthday. Very few remember Joe today, but he was the...
