With boxing still profoundly affected by the ongoing pandemic, we will continue to periodically revisit some of our past feature articles. Today, on the anniversary of the great ...
On January 12, 2021 / By Patrick ConnorLike anyone who identifies as something of a boxing diehard, I’m familiar with the name Ezzard Charles. However, if pressed I could not tell you much more than ...
On January 11, 2021 / By Ronnie McCluskeyIt is 1942, a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and America is at war. As the country enters this new chapter in its history, one thing remains ...
On January 9, 2021 / By Michael CarbertIf James Braddock is “The Cinderella Man,” then what do we call Arnold Cream, aka Jersey Joe Walcott? Braddock’s story of perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable ...
On December 25, 2020 / By Michael CarbertBad decisions. Robberies. Ridiculous scorecards. Maybe nothing sickens a fight fan more than judges rendering a final verdict which makes a mockery of a hard-fought contest. Sadly, such ...
On December 5, 2020 / By Michael CarbertIn decades past, when undisputed heavyweight champions were the norm and not the exception, they inevitably created a great vacuum of power upon retiring. It was a mad scramble ...
On November 30, 2020 / By Patrick ConnorWhen former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier died in 2011 it came as a shock to the boxing world. After all, he was a mere sixty-seven years of age ...
On November 18, 2020 / By Michael CarbertIn 1974, George Foreman reigned supreme. The previous year he had astonished the sports world with his terrifying demolition of Joe Frazier, knocking Smokin’ Joe to the canvas ...
On October 30, 2020 / By Michael CarbertIn boxing history, there are the champions and there are those who fight among them. For every Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey, there were hundreds of ...
On October 26, 2020 / By Patrick ConnorIt is 1987 and nothing and no one can stop heavyweight wrecking machine Mike Tyson. The year before he had blown away Trevor Berbick in two rounds to become ...
On October 17, 2020 / By Michael CarbertTony Canzoneri vs Jimmy McLarnin. Two of the very best from one of boxing’s greatest decades, the 1930’s, the Depression years, the glorious time of Kid Chocolate, Barney ...
On October 5, 2020 / By Robert PortisIn a time of endless and constant media exposure and thirty second attention spans, it is almost impossible to fully appreciate the larger-than-life fame and popularity of Muhammad ...
On September 28, 2020 / By Michael CarbertThere’s little doubt that Ezzard Charles is one of boxing’s most underrated champions. A skillful technician, he holds wins over a long list of great fighters and he ...
On September 27, 2020 / By Daniel AttiasAfter a record breaking reign atop the big man division, the great Joe Louis had finally retired in 1948 and in the years immediately following boxing struggled to ...
On September 23, 2020 / By Michael CarbertIn March of 1985, heavyweight champion Larry Holmes scored a tenth round stoppage of undefeated contender David Bey and then immediately announced that he was done. As in, ...
On September 21, 2020 / By Michael CarbertOn this day back in 1954, Rocky Marciano and Ezzard Charles clashed at Yankee Stadium to contest, for the second time in just three months, the heavyweight championship ...
On September 17, 2020 / By Eliott McCormickFor most of boxing history, world title belts didn’t grow on trees, as they say, and even title shots were a rare and much sought-after commodity. Competition was ...
On September 15, 2020 / By Neil CraneToday is the birthday of legendary heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano and we’re always going to pay tribute to the one and only “Brockton Blockbuster,” regardless of the fact his famous ...
On September 1, 2020 / By Michael CarbertThe great Joe Louis, already something of a legend, made his first defense as heavyweight champion against Welshman Tommy Farr just nine weeks after his title-winning knockout over James ...
On August 30, 2020 / By Eliott McCormickAt the end of the second, Frankie Campbell tells his corner, “Something feels like it broke in my head.” He’d put future heavyweight champion Max Baer down in ...
On August 25, 2020 / By David Como“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 CavanaughThey called it “World War II,” an odd if not slightly offensive billing, but the logic was undeniable. In 1980, no division in boxing mattered more or inspired ...
On August 2, 2020 / By Michael CarbertMax Schmeling was the first German-born world heavyweight champion and the only boxer to defeat Joe Louis in “The Brown Bomber’s” prime. A sporting hero to the German people, he risked ...
On July 19, 2020 / By Eliott McCormickNo one knowledgeable about the long history of prizefighting doubts the standing of Charley Burley. The man was so good even Sugar Ray Robinson avoided him. And no ...
On June 29, 2020 / By Robert PortisThe question is posed: who was the first black man to win a world boxing championship? And here are the likely replies: Jack Johnson? Joe Gans? While incorrect, these ...
On June 27, 2020 / By Robert PortisFormer world champion Max Schmeling was a solid 10-to-1 underdog when he faced rising contender and awesome knockout artist Joe Louis in a major heavyweight showdown in June ...
On June 22, 2020 / By Robert PortisTime waits for no one, as the old cliché goes, a statement whose meaning the young can barely grasp and alas, I am young no longer. But four ...
On June 20, 2020 / By Michael CarbertThink back, if you will boxing fans, and recollect those breathless days of yesteryear, when the young, can’t-miss prospect, the next great star of the ring, thrilled you ...
On June 19, 2020 / By Michael CarbertIt is 1941 and while some say death and taxes are the only sure things in life, American sports fans know different. There exists a third certainty: Joe Louis ...
On June 18, 2020 / By Robert PortisIt was boxing’s biggest night, but for all the wrong reasons. In terms of sheer popularity, exposure, and the money that goes with it, the 1980s has to ...
On June 11, 2020 / By Michael Carbert“Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.”
– George Foreman
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