Name: Eddie Machen Born: July 18, 1932 Died: August 8, 1972 at the age of 40 Career: 1955 to 1967 Record: 64 fights, 50 wins (29...
Perhaps it is… well, it was an era in itself. The 80s, sandwiched between the Golden (70s) and Silver (90s) Ages of boxing, faced the impossible...
David Tua gave us some truly special moments in his career: his absolute hammer-and-tongs war with Ike Ibeabuchi, his controversial stoppage win over Hasim Rahman, the...
A few years ago I wrote about referee Sid Nathan’s decision in the Pat Cowdell v Dave Needham British Featherweight title fight in 1979. Although the...
Ten years ago, a truly epic, yet often underrated fight took place. When we think of great fights in the lower weight class, we think of...
Not every fighter can become a world champion, but Chicago’s Vinson Durham certainly knows all about stepping into the ring with world champions. And testing them...
40 years ago, two newfangled champions met in a airy heavyweight unification fight that fans had been clamoring for. Michael Spinks, the current WBC champion, took...
Often in boxing, a brilliant, star-studded, distinguished, almost unearthly (you get the idea) amateur career in no way means that the fighter is guaranteed a brilliant...
Heavyweight who fought Tyson, Holmes, Golota, Mercer and many others Let’s celebrate the career of a great heavyweight who was/is called a journeyman. Today in 1957,...
The great Bob Dylan, though not a huge boxing fan, was nevertheless moved to put down his mighty pen in tribute to two boxing greats. You...
Older fight fans will remember the hard-to-pronounce name. Dave Zyglewicz, also known as “Ziggy,” was a gruff, tough, and incredibly brave heavyweight who fought fiercely to...
During his astonishing career of blood, guts and thunder, the one and only Arturo Gatti fought two superstars in Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather...
Who were the top 10 pound-for-pound boxers of the 1910s? Welcome to Part 3 of the 13th newest boxing poll series, which will survey volunteers to...
Sugar Ray Robinson and Carmen Basilio, the kings of the ring, ended the match in a 1-1 draw; their two wild men, waging too much war,...
It’s not the 50th anniversary of the memorable fight, but it is almost 49 years. It was on this day in March 1974 that George Foreman...
March 28, 1998 – Atlantic City Convention Center. Lennox Lewis (32-1) and current WBC heavyweight champion and Shannon Briggs (30-1) and current lineal heavyweight champion. Lewis...
Ken Norton ranks high in the pantheon of heavyweight champions; the former Marine earned his spurs with epic fights, both victorious and defeated, against superstars and...
The boxing world was still reeling from the momentary shock of a adolescent, raw, and brutally powerful George Foreman in January of that year; “Substantial George”...
