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...
In the summer of 1952, Sugar Ray Robinson, the best fighter in the world, reigning as welterweight and middleweight champion, had more. Robinson, betraying both his...
When you look back at the early fights of George Foreman’s improbable, much-ridiculed (at the time, not since) comeback, it’s simple to see why so many...
BACK in 2016 rated the greatest featherweights and placed Sandy Saddler at number one. Saddler’s great rival, Willie Pep, came in second on the list. I’ve...
This was Marvelous Marvin Hagler at his best. Hagler’s victory on April 15, 1985 will forever be remembered as one of the greatest and most action-packed...
Often there is a relatively compact but action-packed middleweight title fight, a fight that, while not the grueling, epic, 11-, 12-, 13-, 14- or 15-round thrill...
Author: Bobby delaCruz: The event took place on June 23, 2001, in Las Vegas. When his name was called for the first time on American soil,...
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of addressing the Royal Navy and Marines Ex-Boxers Association at their annual meeting. The Royal Navy Championships were...
America was still in mourning and shock. The events of September 11 had stunned, disgusted, and outraged the civilized world, and nothing was the same. There...
On this day in 1992, Riddick Bowe, at the peak of his career, aged 25, defeated Evander Holyfield in a truly magnificent heavyweight fight. At the...
George Foreman has lived many lives. In his younger days he was a street hooligan, then he joined Job Corp and changed his life. Later still...
IF last moments Deontay Wilder his career took place in the ring in Riyadh, where he tripped, spun and was hit on the head by Zhilei...
