It was the closest Tyson ever came to a comeback win, and a single knockdown punch was responsible. I don't know if the loss was due to him being...
**** and vinegar is needed to keep this place from getting dull. This is about pugilism and the history of it, not chess or golf. As far as I'm...
Well, if I was Frazier, I wouldn't want to be in there with a tall rabbit puncher like Wepner, who even left the back of Ali's neck sore....
The movie Rocky was one of the three things which revived the popularity of boxing in the United States, after Ali's return from exile, and along...
Boxing publications in the early and mid 1980s expressed the view that Baer would have the best shot at upsetting Holmes among the past champions...
There will be other years, and the weight of your passionate scholarly opinion is ascendant as your reputation for being a source historian of the...
In Ali's 1975 autobiography ghost written by Richard Durham (which got some major facts wrong, like identifying Zack Clayton as the referee in...
Hank himself was emphatic after their 1943 match that there was no way he could have beaten Ray even if at his very best. Tack onto that the fact...
I think the Willard of Havana outlasts any version of Shavers. The height of Tiger Williams posed some obvious logistical issues for Earnie, and...
Good. This appears to be a solid class which ought to be far less criticized than many. Root was inducted into the Ring HOF by Fleischer in 1961,...
Hagler's right jab against the Curry family chin? Even if they're wearing the then standard thumbed eight ounce gloves, instead of the power...
Easy Eddie isn't all that hard to figure out. It's a common story with anybody that specially gifted in a particular respect. Those who don't have...
EB, I would like to think that eventually it might have come off, but the big story between Sanchez-Nelson and Sal's death that I read in the...
Yes! "Mythical Ali" belongs aside "1919 Greb," "Montreal Duran," "Toledo Dempsey," and speaking of Duran, my personal favorite, "Big Easy (or...
That's right. However, I wanted to mention Olivares because of the combination of Ruben's power and Pedroza's questioned chin. Going in,...
