As any boxing fan surely knows, on this day – 47 long years ago – Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, the two greatest heavyweights of their...
President Donald J. Trump has granted a long-overdue posthumous pardon to the first African-American world heavyweight champion, Jack “Galveston Giant” Johnson, for his 1913 conviction for...
A true fan favorite throughout his career of courage, ups and downs, the retired Vinny Maddalone will be the guest of honor at the Roast at...
As fans know, when Felix Trinidad and Oscar De La Hoya met in 1999, it was a massive welterweight clash that ended in controversy. To this...
What is your favorite James Toney fight? There are of course a lot of gems to choose from; and as we know, “Lights Out” has had...
Arguably cursed with the worst nickname in the long history of professional boxing, Britain’s Randolph Turpin experienced far worse demons after his boxing career came to...
What hasn’t been written about the fantastic but equally barbaric and brutal third act, the final fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier? What can be...
How special was Ezzard Charles? He was so special that today, if he is remembered for his incredible talent/bravery and pure class merit, he is remembered...
Born: February 8, 1943 Died: December 28, 2010 Career: 1962 to 1982 Record: 96 fights, 66 wins (53 by KO/TKO), 24 losses (1 by KO/TKO), 5...
Underrated performance of “Chico” Think of Diego Corrales, as many of us fight fans often do these days, and chances are you’ll conjure up images of...
Throughout boxing history, we have seen a gigantic middleweight move up in weight and, wanting to be even bigger, challenge the heavyweight champion. Look at Stanley...
The great Rocky Marciano had many first-round knockouts in his illustrious professional career – 11, in fact. However, “The Rock” had only one first-round KO victory...
BEFORE his huge fights, Maurice Hope lived with Terry Lawless and his family for a week or two. It wasn’t Lawless’s residence. Lawless had two teenage...
“I know for a fact that he never gave up in the ring and he would never give up in life. I just know there’s more...
Lennox Lewis has had a number of notable and impressive knockouts in his career (32 KOs from 41 wins, and that’s from a man who was...
THE most essential venue in London during the tumultuous era of the 1880s, when boxing was very much a ‘Wild West affair’, was The Pelican Club....
Never before has a star who was close to greatness been so strangely derailed. Terry Norris, the super-fast puncher with the quivering beard combined with an...
Wayne McCullough may have had the biggest chin in lightweight boxing in the 90s and 2000s. In fact, you could go so far as to suggest...
