Do we need a special occasion to pay tribute to arguably the most popular and influential prizefighter of all-time? Is there ever a bad time to recall the ...
On December 22, 2020 / By Michael CarbertIn 1982, after being treated for a detached retina, Sugar Ray Leonard retired from boxing. Two years later he attempted a comeback, which was quickly aborted after an ...
On November 7, 2020 / By Michael CarbertForty-five years later, one still hears the echoes, the reverberations of that final, epic struggle between two boxing legends. After all, it was more than a heavyweight championship ...
On October 1, 2020 / By Michael CarbertNo matter how dismal the fight scene may be at a given time, fans can always cherish and take comfort from the sport’s glorious history. The past is ...
On September 30, 2020 / By Michael EzraIn the summer of 1981, only two boxers mattered in America: WBA welterweight champion Thomas Hearns, and WBC welterweight champion Sugar Ray Leonard. Since the previous fall, when ...
On September 16, 2020 / By Michael CarbertIt had been years since Muhammad Ali worked with such intensity and purpose, years since he had forced his body to undergo the torture necessary to reach supreme ...
On September 10, 2020 / By Michael Carbert“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” — Soren Kierkegaard Over the decades we have been told time ...
On August 13, 2020 / By Douglas CavanaughWhat became known as “The Night of the Ramos” happened fifty years ago today at the legendary Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles and for those who witnessed this ...
On August 6, 2020 / By Rafael GarcíaTheir first meeting in 1981, one of the biggest fights in boxing history, was called “The Showdown,” an appellation which made sense given that each held one of ...
On June 12, 2020 / By Robert PortisLooking back, it’s easy to forget that until the early 1970s and his wars with Bonavena, Frazier, Norton and Foreman, many seriously questioned the toughness of Muhammad Ali. ...
On May 21, 2020 / By Michael CarbertThe great Joe Louis was born on this day in 1914 and no serious fight fan needs to be reminded as to why he will always be a ...
On May 13, 2020 / By Lee WylieIn June of 1967, a jury found world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali guilty of draft evasion for his refusal to join the military and participate in the war ...
On April 27, 2020 / By Michael CarbertWhen news came in 1987 that former heavyweight champion George Foreman, who had retired ten years before to become an evangelical pastor, was embarking on a wholly unexpected ...
On April 19, 2020 / By Michael CarbertTo say light heavyweight champion Willie Pastrano was not the most enthusiastic or Spartan-like of athletes is a bit of an understatement. According to his trainer, Angelo Dundee, ...
On April 10, 2020 / By Michael CarbertIt was one of the biggest fights in boxing history and one of the most controversial. Sugar Ray vs Marvelous Marvin. Hagler vs Leonard. Few fights have been ...
On April 6, 2020 / By Thad MooreFew deny that Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all-time, perhaps even “The Greatest,” and a major part of the evidence for that claim ...
On March 30, 2020 / By Jamie RebnerThe first, prolific championship reign of Muhammad Ali, which saw him defend his title eight times in two years, had, regrettably, always been more about politics than sports. ...
On March 22, 2020 / By Robert PortisNo matter how impressive the amateur credentials, or how good they look in the gym, you can never know what a prospect is made of before they are ...
On March 13, 2020 / By Michael CarbertEven if it had nothing else going for it—something very far from the truth— Shadow Box by George Plimpton will forever remain a bastion of boxing literature because of the ...
On March 9, 2020 / By Rafael GarcíaFollowing Muhammad Ali’s refusal to be drafted into the U.S. Army in June 1967 and his being relieved of both his title and his license to box, the matter ...
On February 16, 2020 / By Michael CarbertIt is 1982 and Sugar Ray Leonard is the king of not only the welterweight division, but of the entire sport of boxing. No other fighter is as ...
On February 15, 2020 / By Robert PortisBy this time no one questioned the greatness of the man they called “Mantequilla.” Jose Napoles, the former Cuban who emigrated to Mexico after Fidel Castro took over ...
On February 9, 2020 / By Michael CarbertThe latest biography of Muhammad Ali, surely the most written-about boxer in history, is also the longest, and will be among the best-selling and most-read. Jonathan Eig’s Ali: A ...
On March 28, 2019 / By Michael EzraWhen our favorite boxers win, we credit their courage, ring-smarts or resilience in the face of adversity, but when they lose we often look for some outside entity ...
On September 13, 2018 / By Jeffrey FussLeo Santa Cruz (34-1-1), Jermell Charlo (30-0) and Terence Crawford (32-0), are all favored to win their fights this Saturday night, but this is boxing, so, as fight ...
On June 8, 2018 / By Ralph M. SemienGennady Golovkin, the monster of the middleweight division, vs Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, a superstar of boxing and clearly its future. An epic fight, one of the most anticipated ...
On September 30, 2017 / By Simon Traversy“They howled, and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity–like yours–the thought of your remote kinship with ...
On June 20, 2015 / By Eliott McCormickIn the long history of boxing, few trainers have had the impact of Angelo Dundee who died of an apparent heart attack in Florida yesterday. He was 90 ...
On February 2, 2012 / By Michael Carbert“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
– George Foreman
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