Featherweight Great Eusebio Pedroza Fighting For His Life With Cancer
News coming out of Panama informs us how featherweight great and former long-reigning world champion Eusebio Pedroza … continue
Boxing History
Boxing history articles
Sugar Ray Robinson Vs. Jake LaMotta: The Most Intense, Savage And Evenly Matched Rivalry In Boxing History
Forget even Ali/Frazier, or Zale/Graziano, or even Leonard/Duran. When it comes to the sport’s most intense and … continue
The Sad Case Of Rudi Lubbers: The Man Who Went The Distance With “The Greatest”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdPHJL5bsCA Older boxing fans will remember the name Rudi Lubbers. The Dutch heavyweight fought some big names … continue
On This Day: Thomas Hearns Has His Final Fight – and “The Hitman” goes out with a win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvh9rYN4MHo Tough clubfighter Shannon Landberg of Indiana holds a footnote in boxing history: that of being the … continue
Gerry Cooney To Release Autobiography This Summer; The 62 Year Old STILL Getting Offers To Fight!
Heavyweight power-puncher Gerry Cooney will release his autobiography this summer, so reports RingTV.com, and it promises to … continue
25 Years Ago: The Greatest Mexican Fighter In History Was Dissected By A Surgeon: Randall/Chavez
If the great Julio Cesar Chavez is the finest fighter to have ever come out of the … continue
45 Years Ago: “Super-Fight II,” Ali Gets His Revenge Over Frazier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxBhV0I6ISc On this day 45 long years ago, heavyweight greats Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met in … continue
Why Everyone Loves A Slugfest (especially a heavyweight slugfest)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5sQkr2ZESc Fight fans have always had, and always will have, a special place in their hearts for … continue
Ten Years Ago Today: Sugar Shane Mosley Smashes Antonio Margarito To Defeat (and Margarito’s loaded wraps ensure his fall from grace)
“Sugar” Shane Mosley fought one of his greatest fights; certainly his most aggressive, ruthless and nasty fights. … continue
On This Day In 1988: Mike Tyson KO’d The Hitherto Unstopped Larry Holmes – does this mean Tyson would also have taken out Foreman?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp2ZeNEPNlA At the time of his rendering an ageing Larry Holmes unconscious, in disturbing fashion, not too … continue