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Boxing fans today are being afforded the opportunity to witness something truly unique during the long rich history of the heavyweight division.
Boxing fans today are being afforded the opportunity to witness something truly unique during the long rich history of the heavyweight division.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler is the featured boxer in this edition of the Top 5 Notable Wins series.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler was the undisputed middleweight world champion from September 27, 1980 until April 6, 1987.
Lennox Lewis is the featured boxer in this edition of the Top 5 Notable Wins series, and with Lewis, he had a lot of high caliber victories that were all on or around the same level, so picking 5 was tricky.
In this day and age it is all too common for boxing fans to be over critical of losses on a boxer’s record, particularly when it comes to past greats from another era when boxing was quite different.
After Felix Trinidad scored a dramatic twelfth round stoppage victory in an absolute war against Fernando Vargas, Tito was on top of the boxing world.
Rocky Marciano is the featured boxer in this edition of the Top 5 Notable Wins series, and with The Brockton Blockbuster, to this very day, he holds the unique distinction of being the only heavyweight champion to retire and remain retired with an undefeated record.
Happy New Year, boxing fans! And to kick off the new year, Joe Louis is the featured boxer in this edition of the Top 5 Notable Wins series, and with The Brown Bomber, he still holds records for the longest heavyweight title reign in history, both in terms of his 25 title defenses, and also the duration of his illustrious championship run which lasted nearly 12 years.
Smokin’ Joe Frazier is the featured boxer in this edition of the Top 5 Notable Wins series, and with Frazier, picking 5 is a really tricky business – much trickier than with the previous installments involving fellow heavyweight champions and Hall of Famers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.
Ever since the extremely controversial draw between reigning WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, an awful lot of boxing fans have been questioning the validity of Tyson Fury’s claim to the heavyweight lineal championship.
On Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, in a heavyweight championship bout that was broadcast on Showtime PPV, undefeated WBC heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder put his title on the line against undefeated lineal heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury.