Pedantic factoid: Cleveland Williams wasn't pounded into semi-retirement by Satterfield or anyone else. There's a gap in his record at that point...
The fight was stopped because the ringside doctor had taken a long look at Banks inbetween rounds due to the punishment he'd taken in the third....
Has there ever been a fight which produced such a wide range of different scorecards as this one? The Associated Press had it for Young, 69-66....
I think you'll find that Sonny Banks, after scoring a first-round knockdown, was badly beaten in the second and third, and stopped by the referee...
There's not much of a story here really. Smelling salts were allowed in US rings at the time, Dundee was just doing what he was accustomed to do...
Yes, the proportion's roughly the same as those who think Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ (or thought it would be funny to say they did, or didn't...
D'Amato was talking Ali down because he was talking up his own fighter, Buster Mathis. In reality of course, there's nothing lucky about getting...
I find this is usually the way with famous "robberies". When you look into it, you realise that a lot of ringsiders agreed with the judges'...
In fairness, Liston could have beaten a prime Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Jersey Joe Walcott and Ezzard Charles and you'd still be able...
To give Ray his due, he was the opponent three times during Louis' early 1949 exhibition tour (after Louis' final defence but before his...
The story is that Louis came to town to box an exhibition, and the inexperienced clubfighter Johnny Davis was selected to be the other man in the...
Here's a dissenting point of view - apparently an eyewitness account by the Paris correspondent of the London Times. His conclusion: Except in...
Times have changed. It's commonplace now for fighters to remain at the top well into their thirties. When you look at Ali's predecessors as...
I remember reading a story that Dempsey was acting in a stage play and there was a boxing scene where he was supposed to win by knockout. They'd...
That's not an exhibition, that's sparring. It's true he worked out in the gym sporadically but he certainly didn't stay in fighting shape as the...
