Battling Levinsky Archives

Continuing our infrequent rankings of the all-time greatest boxers in each of the original eight weight classes, we offer our

The Smoke City Wildcat

They called them the Roaring Twenties, that crazy decade following World War I when the economy boomed, “speakeasies” opened on

Rocky is a great movie, and Creed was pretty good, but they get my town all wrong when it comes to

Boxing, they say, is a young man’s game. An obvious fact, one would think, especially for a sport as rough

More than four decades later, one still hears the echoes, the reverberations of that final, epic struggle between two boxing

Flyweight wasn’t much of a division until Jimmy Wilde came along. While not the first of the little champions, “The

The nickname of all-time great Mexican pugilist Ricardo Lopez is “El Finito,” which translates to “The Fine One.” Sometimes a