Boxing history articles
Canelo Alvarez claimed the middleweight throne eight years ago today, defeating Gennadiy Golovkin by majority decision on September 15, 2018, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Judges Dave Moretti and … read more
Marvelous Marvin Hagler turned Wilford Scypion’s title challenge into a four-round beating on May 27, 1983, stopping him at 2:47 before 13,101 fans at the Civic Center in Providence, Rhode … read more
Later today, in Las Vegas, British warrior Conor Benn will score one heck of an upset if he manages to defeat Ryan Garcia and take the WBC welterweight title. Plenty … read more
Sugar Ray Robinson fought 20 times in 1950. He began the year on January 30, finished it on Christmas Day, and boxed four times during December alone. Matthew Aguilar drew … read more
The money that was offered, dangled – even almost forced- upon Juan Manuel Marquez to come back and fight Manny Pacquiao a fifth time was, well, enough to have swerved … read more
Cassius Clay had just won the heavyweight championship, but celebrating wasn’t his primary focus. The 22-year-old wanted to settle a score with the reporters who spent weeks telling readers Sonny … read more
The sport of boxing sure was a whole lot different a century ago. And one man, who had a career, that was so totally different to anything like what we … read more
The WBC light welterweight champion broke down the Mexican legend before a sixth-round stoppage closed Chavez’s last championship challenge. Kostya Tszyu extinguished Julio Cesar Chavez’s final bid to reclaim a … read more
Liston stopped Patterson in the first round on July 22, 1963, before the controversial rematch helped change future heavyweight title contracts. Sonny Liston stopped Floyd Patterson in the first round … read more
Almost 50 years ago, the great Carlos Monzon hung up his gloves and retired, this after having ruled as middleweight king for almost seven years. Monzon went out a winner, … read more