Boxing history articles
Trying to rank boxers across different eras is a difficult task, but it can also be a lot of fun, and hopefully that has been the case, and continues to be the case, with this … read full article “Top 10 by Decade – Part X: Junior Lightweights”
A piece of boxing history will be made this summer, as we will see, for the first ever time, one fighter hold all four recognised world cruiserweight titles simultaneously. The winner of the grand final … read full article “Real Deal: 30 years ago today – Evander Holyfield unifies the world cruiserweight titles”
Ranking fighters across different eras is always a rather tricky business, but it can also be a lot of fun, and hopefully that has been and will continue to be the case with this ongoing … read full article “Top 10 by Decade – Part IX: Lightweights”
Over three decades on, fight fans everywhere STILL argue over who really won the middleweight title fight between defending champ Hagler and big betting underdog challenger Leonard.
There have of course always been debatable decisions … read full article “Sugar Ray Leonard-Marvelous Marvin Hagler: The fight that never gets old (and neither does the debate over who really won)”
Trying to rank boxers across different eras is a difficult task, but it can also be a lot of fun, and hopefully that has been the case, and continues to be the case, with this … read full article “Top 10 by Decade – Part VIII: Junior Welterweights”
Ranking fighters across different eras is always a rather tricky business, but it can also be a lot of fun, and hopefully that has been the case with this ongoing rankings experiment where we attempt … read full article “Top 10 by Decade – Part VII: Welterweights”
Ranking fighters across different eras is always a rather tricky business, but it can also be a lot of fun, and hopefully that is the case with this ongoing rankings experiment where we attempt to … read full article “Top 10 by Decade – Part VI: Junior Middleweights”
Ranking fighters across different eras is always a rather tricky business, but it can also be a lot of fun. Ranking fighters within the same decade in the same weight class can be also but … read full article “Top 10 by Decade – Part V: Middleweights”
Twenty long years ago ago (March 28 1998), WBC heavyweight king Lennox Lewis met lineal ruler Shannon Briggs in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and a memorable and exciting slugfest broke out – to the extent … read full article “Twenty Years On: The Lewis-Briggs rumble”
Ranking fighters across different eras is always a very tricky business, but it is also a lot of fun. Even ranking fighters within the same decade in the same weight class can be tricky, but … read full article “Top 10 by Decade – Part IV: Super Middleweights”