The British weather did its best to disrupt a charity cricket match between Essex EBA and James Cook’s All-Stars – and to some extent it succeeded,...
Whenever we argue, fans think of two things: the great heavyweight boxer and the heavyweight who should have achieved more than he actually did; many of...
Earlier this year, the satin white shorts that Muhammad Ali wore during his third and final fight (see war) with arch-rival Joe Frazier were auctioned and...
At ONE you often hear state-of-the-art fans debating who is the greatest British player of all time. Most of the names that appear are those of...
Years pass and memories fade, or at least some of them. It was 18 years ago that this writer had the absolute privilege of sitting ringside...
It was 38, a long time ago, when mighty underdog Lloyd Honeyghan won what was then called a “miracle victory”. After Honeyghan, whether he was an...
There is an article on the WBN (World Boxing News) website and some material on Facebook (Tony Holden, who previously promoted Tommy and considers him a...
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?”...
