The wild tumultuous life of boxing trainer Teddy Atlas is recounted with brutal honesty in his 2006 autobiography “From The Streets To The Ring A Son’s Struggle To Become A … Read more
At 27-years of age and in his eighth year since turning professional, the career of George Chuvalo was going nowhere fast. By mid-1964, he had lost his Canadian heavyweight title … Read more
The obsession of Jim Jacobs in professional boxing began when he became a collector of old-time fight films; a passion that easily made him the greatest collector of them all. … Read more
Toronto’s forgotten Mutual Arena hosted one of the most memorable bouts in Canadian boxing history, when Sammy Luftspring, from the St. John’s Ward and Kensington market neighborhoods, clashed with another … Read more
It was July 26, 1929 when 19-year old Kid Chocolate (aka Cuban Bon Bon) made his Canadian boxing debut at the 3-year old Maple Leaf Stadium in Toronto. He was … Read more
A wildly partisan throng packed Toronto’s CNE Coliseum on Sunday June 8, 1986 to help encourage Canada’s Golden Boy of pugilism 23-year old Shawn O’Sullivan in his first big test … Read more
It was late July 1956 and world light heavyweight champion Archie Moore had arrived in Toronto after training hard for 3 weeks in Gravenhurst in preparation for a heavyweight boxing … Read more