Tim Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs) was near tears speaking to the media following his third-round stoppage against IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) on Saturday night at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida.
“He was arguably the most exciting boxer I ever saw” – Ray Rutter
“Eddie Melo filled the Montreal Forum at 18 years old.
“He could have played piano with boxing gloves on”, said a ringside reporter as quoted in Bert Sugar’s Boxing’s Greatest Fighters.
Debates rage regarding the greatest boxer ever (Joe Louis, Ali, Armstrong, Kid Chocolate, Sugar Ray Robinson etc.). However, there’s no argument concerning the most exciting fighter of all-time: Rocky Graziano who won the Middleweight championship in 1947.
Forty years ago, a near-fatal encounter between Gaetan Hart and Ralph Racine from Niagara Falls Ontario would generate a premature end to the 24-year old Racine’s promising career.
Let’s examine Rocky Marciano’s five heavyweight title defences in wake of his one round demolition of 39-year old Jersey Joe Walcott on May 15, 1953: the rematch to their ultra-dramatic scrap on March 3, 1953 when the “behind-on-the-scorecards” Brockton Blockbuster pulled victory from the jaws of defeat in round thirteen with a perfectly-timed right uppercut near the ropes that landed flush on Walcott’s jaw, leaving the champ a helpless heap whose pummeled body collapsed to the ring apron with a sickening thud.
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 Man”.
At 27-years of age and in his eighth year since turning professional, the career of George Chuvalo was going nowhere fast.
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.
Toronto’s forgotten Mutual Arena hosted one of the most memorable bouts in Canadian boxing history, when Sammy Luftspring, from the St.