With no live boxing taking place due to the ongoing coronavirus, hardcore fight fans, boxing junkies if you prefer, are having a tough time of things. Yes, there are far … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w41kFYlMvmc 47 years ago, a 3/1 underdog scored six knockdowns in just over five-minutes to devastatingly alter the heavyweight landscape. It was billed as “The Sunshine Showdown” (this really one … Read more
Class of 2019: Mark Breland, Joe Frazier, Al Mitchell & Ray Rodgers The Class of 2019 was inducted into the USA Boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame this past Friday … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJtEhzyC1WU Rewind to December of 1981, and two heavyweight legends who had no business still fighting, were, for whatever reason or reasons, trying to do so. Muhammad Ali and Joe … Read more
One of boxing’s all-time greatest, the late, great “Smokin’” Joe Frazier, will be inducted posthumously into the USA Boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame, Friday night, December 13, during a … Read more
What a shame these two giants of the division, lethal punchers both, never collided. What would have happened if Joe Frazier and Gerry Cooney met in ring centre and traded … Read more
Olympic gold-medalists “Big” George Foreman, Mark Breland and “Smokin’” Joe Frazier head the Class of 2019 into the USA Boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame, Friday night, December 13, at … Read more
What hasn’t been written about the fantastic yet equally barbaric and brutal third act, or final fight, between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier? What can possibly be thought of this … Read more
Mark Kram Jr, the son of the late Sports Illustrated writer who penned the quite superb, and somewhat controversial, ‘Ghosts of Manila’ book in 2001, has a new book on … Read more
Talk about a heavyweight rematch that didn’t need to happen. Joe Frazier, never short or raw courage and bravery, if perhaps an ability to do the smart thing, for some … Read more
