Boxing history articles
If ever a fight and its utterly disappointing outcome taught us how the extreme confidence and pre-fight promises a fighter can come out with prior to entering the ring can … Read more
Michael Moorer – who today celebrates his 53rd birthday – accomplished a lot during his 20-year pro career. Yet it’s fair to say Moorer is by far and away best … Read more
It was 20 years ago today…… it sounds like a line from a great song by the greatest band of them all, The Beatles. But the 20 years ago today … Read more
36 years ago this week (November 15, 1984) Mark Breland boxed his first pro fight. Just recently the 57-year-old has been in a far bigger fight – that of maintaining … Read more
Was it really a full decade ago when superstar Manny Pacquiao captured his eighth world title in as many different weight divisions with a brutally brilliant, prolonged beating of Antonio … Read more
A half-century ago (November 7, 1970) a then unheard of (outside of his native Argentina) Carlos Monzon made the trip to Rome, Italy, to challenge world middleweight ruler and Italian … Read more
Talk about a big, strong, determined heavyweight who for a short time hooked up with the big names. To widely different results. Crawford Grimsley of Florida, nicknamed “The Terminator,” had … Read more
Of the three memorable heavyweight battles Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield engaged in in the early and mid-1990s, the first fight is recognised as the best. Yet it could certainly … Read more
“He could have played piano with boxing gloves on”, said a ringside reporter as quoted in Bert Sugar’s Boxing’s Greatest Fighters. “Ike was more than a world class fighter to … Read more
Talk about an electrifying performance that proved to be far too good for the winning protagonist. It was Halloween Night in 1992 when an unbeaten but largely untested Lennox Lewis … Read more