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Lennox Lewis Vs. Vitali Klitschko: Vitali’s defining fight

James Slater - August 14, 2017 Leave a Comment

June 2003, The Staples Centre, Los Angeles. The date and venue are familiar to fight fans, heavyweight fight fans especially. Why? Because we saw a great action fight between two huge heavies, both well above the mid-240-pound range, we saw […]

Ricardo Lopez – The Best Boxer of the 90’s

DeMarkus Jones - August 14, 2017 Leave a Comment

Quite a few fans consider the 90’s the last great cultural decade. Being raised in the 90’s, I fondly remember TRL, Nickelodeon, Moon Shoes and my Lite Brite. Media, music, and sports were all being produced with high levels of […]

Sugar Ray and The Hitman have mutual respect for one another – they earned it

James Slater - August 12, 2017 Leave a Comment

Boxing legends Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns are currently in Las Vegas – the scene of many of their sensational, unforgettable fights – to attend tonight’s Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame. Hearns, a former five-weight king, will […]

Remembering Salvador Sanchez – The Classic Bouts That Fate Denied Him

Jason Peck - August 12, 2017 Leave a Comment

He suffered only one loss, won the pride of his native Mexico and dazzled opponents with superior skill like poetry in motion. But his life was short like haiku – exactly 35 years ago today Sanchez died in a vehicle […]

Legend Thomas Hearns to become the last of “The Four Kings” inducted into The Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame

James Slater - August 9, 2017 Leave a Comment

This weekend in Las Vegas, nothing short of boxing royalty will be both in attendance and receiving honours at the fifth Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame inductions. There will be a genuine celebration of two great rivalries, as Thomas Hearns […]

Twenty Years ago today: A peak Roy Jones Junior brutally avenges his controversial loss to Montell Griffin!

James Slater - August 7, 2017 Leave a Comment

Twenty years ago today, all-time great Roy Jones Junior had a point to prove, and, boy, did an angered Jones prove it in ferocious fashion! The 28 year old star and pound-for-pound king had controversially lost both his light-heavyweight title […]

30 years ago today: Mike Tyson unifies the WBC/WBA/IBF heavyweight titles with win over Tony Tucker

James Slater - August 1, 2017

Was it really thirty years ago – three full decades; a generation – when a peak Mike Tyson put all the heavyweight belts around his 34” waist? It was indeed, as hard as it may be to believe for fight […]

“Smokin’” Joe Frazier’s daughter launches petition for Philly street to be named after him

James Slater - July 27, 2017

Muhammad Ali has a street named after him, so too does the flamboyant promoter who earned millions from the epic battles Ali and his fiercest rival, “Smokin’” Joe Frazier thrilled the entire world with. And now, in what seems only […]

Remembering Eddie “The Animal” Lopez; the former contender passes away

James Slater - July 16, 2017

Fight fans of a certain age will remember rough, tough 1970s and ’80s heavyweight warrior Eddie “The Animal” Lopez, who sadly died over the weekend according to a report on RingTV.com. It’s not clear what the cause of death was […]

The five most devastating KO’s in boxing history? How devastatingly they went down is down to opinion only

James Slater - July 10, 2017

A new article courtesy of GQ Magazine, taken as it is from a new book by gifted writer Elliot Worsell, professes to list “The five most devastating knockouts in boxing history.” Though the clearly well thought out list is a […]