It’s melancholy news that former lightweight world champion Ken Buchanan has died at the age of 77. The Scottish hero had been battling dementia and is...
Many fight fans have a pliable spot for James Smith, better known, of course, as “Bonecrusher.” Smith, one of the most powerful gigantic men in recent...
It was 36 years ago today in Las Vegas: Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Marvelous Marvin Hagler. A super fight. Fans all over the world have followed...
EDDIE Thomas, from Merthyr, excelled at every level of the game for some 40 years and will still be remembered by veterans of the game as...
In the 1980s, Doug DeWitt was one of the toughest, most tough middleweights in the game. The hardened Yonkers fighter wasn’t exactly challenging to hit, but...
Larry Holmes didn’t like Trevor Berbick, not one bit. Not before his 15-round title defense against Berbick in 1981, not during the fight, and certainly not...
34 years ago today, boxing, and indeed the world, lost its greatest. Sugar Ray Robinson, the greatest boxer of all time – a man born Walker...
One day, they might write a book about Michael Nunn and his rise and fall. The former middleweight and super middleweight kingpin is celebrating his 60th...
The 80s certainly gave fight fans and boxing (MMA wasn’t quite there yet) some really great action. Indeed, while older boxing fans will point to the...
On this day in 1991, when Evander Holyfield and George Foreman met in Atlantic City, there was a fight that truly fit in with all the...
It’s strange sometimes how a certain date can cause such great unrest in boxing. For example, April 22. It was on this day, in different years,...
In many ways, as he always proudly points out, George Foreman is an American success story. Born impoverished and seemingly hopeless, the newborn Foreman, who was...
It’s perhaps somewhat ironic that while the entire boxing world is talking about THAT KO that Tank Davis scored over Ryan Garcia – whether Garcia quit...
How time flies. Ten years ago, rising heavyweight Deontay Wilder had his only fight in the UK (so far, but could Wilder one day return to...
In a depressed bit of news that has somewhat fallen on deaf ears, former IBF cruiserweight champion “King” Arthur Williams passed away this past weekend. The...
Who was in the top ten boxing pound-for-pounds in the 1920s? Welcome to Part 4 of the 13th newest boxing poll series, which will survey volunteers...
They say boxing is a strange mix of brutality, beauty and – for those who can do it at the highest level – perfection. And so...
It’s engaging, you may or may not agree, how a certain month of the year can create greatness. Lots of greatness. Take our sport of boxing,...
