Rewind to 1994 and Lennox Lewis ended the drought that Britain had endured for so long when it came to having a world heavyweight champion. Lewis,...
The great boxer Kostya Tszyu turns 55 today, and the former pound-for-pound king has many great fights and nights behind him that are worth remembering. Think...
As the scribes wrote at the time, Felix and Oscar were not an “odd couple.” But after Felix Trinidad and Oscar De La Hoya fought 12...
According to many fight fans and historians, the man who gave the incomparably tough Rocky Marciano his hardest night of work was the uncrowned (175-pound) airy...
A sight and a fight that is rarely, if ever, seen these days. Two prime, rival world champions, both looking to test each other’s greatness while...
Anthony Joshua became a bona fide boxing star after defeating former and long-reigning heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in April 2017. The fight took place at Wembley,...
On this day in 2002, Oscar De La Hoya earned arguably the biggest and most satisfying victory of his professional career. Facing fierce rival Fernando Vargas,...
It turned out to be the first of many; many world titles won and many world title fights fought. Today marks 40 years since 22-year-old Julio...
George Chuvalo, born on this day in 1937 as Jure Chuvalo, could easily have received an honor other than one that reminded us all of the...
When it comes to the most stunning, shocking, and just plain nasty one-punch knockouts the sport we love has given us over the years, many of...
Who in the ever-bustling, always-dangerous arena of fighting has had more of an up-and-down, almost always-colorful life than Bertram Cooper – also known as “Smokin’ Bert?”...
Although Bob Foster is undoubtedly considered one of the greatest airy heavyweight champions of all time, he was not a household name during his prime. His...
Not only are there seemingly countless boxing movies, but some of them are truly great, groundbreaking works – “Rocky,” “Raging Bull,” “Body and Soul,” “The Fighter,”...
Born on September 14, 1886, to Polish immigrants in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Stanley Ketchel was apparently born tough. In this day and age, youthful men and...
JOEY SINGLETON was the first man to win the Lonsdale belt at welterweight. Now known as super lightweight, the division was brimming with talent in the...
To mark the 50th anniversary of The Rumble in the Jungle, the original broadcast of the legendary heavyweight fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, tickets...
It’s time to pay tribute Tony Wynnethe godfather of Welsh amateur boxing for eight decades who has finally decided to scale back his commitments. Petite in...
They say a man never dies until he is forgotten. Well, Willie Pep lives on. More than a decade and a half after his body was...
