Based on what I have read, Allie Columbo was a devoted friend of Rocky Marciano, one who went out of his way to help Rocky in just about every...
Irving Cohen managed both Rocky Graziano and Billy Graham. Graziano obviously was more colorful and a far better gate attraction than Graham, but...
RIP, Ferdie.... - Chuck Johnston
George Foreman had a substantial size advantage over Joe Louis even if their height measurements were about the same. One reason is the weight...
One big turning point in Mike Tyson's boxing career was the death of one of his co-managers, Jimmy Jacobs. With Jacobs on the scene, Tyson had a...
A number of early 20th Century sportswriters wrote that Stanley Ketchell was the greatest middleweight of all time. Yet Ketchell was a top...
It seemed that the referee went out of his way not to disqualify Eusebio Pedroza in his bout with Juan Laporte. Yes, Pedroza committing fouls...
In fairness to the South, there was plenty of professional boxing activity in that section of the United States during the first half of the 20th...
During the first 40 or 50 years of the 20th Century, the boxing scene in the South was hampered by the fact that bouts between black and white...
New York City certainly was the mecca of American boxing for much of the time, but it also had some so-called "dead periods." Professional boxing...
I was very impressed with Sean O'Grady when I saw him fight Danny "Little Red" Lopez in person at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Yes,...
Despite being the world welterweight champion two times, Barney Ross apparently never weighed more than 144.5 pounds for a bout. I looked that up...
Lorenzo/Laurence Scafani apparently was the real name of Larry Jones, a San Francisco fighter who was active during the late 1910s and early...
It appears that there isn't any contemporary news coverage about Jim Jeffries fighting as early as 1893 or having a bout with Hank Griffin at the...
Carlos Zarate was a far better fighter and had much more skill than Gennady Golovkin. In fact, Zarate was an all-time great in the bantamweight...
