On January 22, 1973, George Foreman knocked unbeaten champion Joe Frazier down six times in two rounds at Kingston's National Stadium, prompting Howar...
Jake LaMotta won the middleweight title at Briggs Stadium on June 16, 1949, after Marcel Cerdan hurt his shoulder in the first round. The rematch was...
Brooklyn's Terry McGovern knocked out Pedlar Palmer and George Dixon to rule two divisions by 1900, then saw a disputed win over Joe Gans and a loss t...
Panama's Eusebio Pedroza won the WBA featherweight title in 1978, defended it across four continents and lost it to Barry McGuigan at Loftus Road in 1...
On 30 November 1979 ABC broadcast three title fights from Las Vegas and New Orleans, ending with Sugar Ray Leonard stopping Wilfred Benítez with six s...
Carlos Zarate rose from Tepito to the WBC bantamweight title with two runs of 20-plus straight knockouts, lost to Wilfredo Gomez and Lupe Pintor, and...
Larry Holmes kept the WBC heavyweight title against Gerry Cooney on June 11, 1982, in a racially charged $10 million fight that ended when Cooney's tr...
Born in County Down and raised in Vancouver, Jimmy McLarnin was shaped by manager Pop Foster, beat Benny Leonard, twice held the welterweight title an...
Jersey Joe Walcott dropped Joe Louis twice at Madison Square Garden in December 1947 but lost a split decision most ringside writers disputed. Six mon...
The life of Mike Tyson, from a violent Brooklyn childhood and Cus D'Amato's home in Catskill to the undisputed heavyweight title, prison, comeback and...
Theodore 'Tiger' Flowers, a devout southpaw from Georgia, took the middleweight title from Harry Greb in 1926, lost it on a disputed decision to Micke...
On June 9, 1899, the unbeaten James J. Jeffries knocked out Bob Fitzsimmons in the 11th round at Coney Island to win the heavyweight title; three year...
