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In March of 1985, heavyweight champion Larry Holmes scored a tenth round stoppage of undefeated contender David Bey and then

On Leon Spinks

In mourning the death of Leon Spinks one week ago, one is not lamenting the loss of “a great fighter,”

By this time all of America knew the Ray Mancini story; precious few knew the tale of Arturo Frias. While

We live in the age of the camera and mass produced, edited, precisely manicured images, when glamour, style and looks

The question is posed: who was the first black man to win a world boxing championship? And here are the

The first Hearns vs Leonard battle in 1981, one of the biggest fights in boxing history, was billed as “The