Rubén Olivares and Chucho Castillo fought three times for the bantamweight title at the Inglewood Forum: a points win for Olivares, a cut stoppage for...
Born in Ponce and raised in New York, Carlos Ortiz won the junior welterweight title in 1959 and the lightweight title twice in the 1960s, stopping Fl...
On a split decision in Nagoya in May 1965, Fighting Harada took the bantamweight title from the unbeaten Éder Jofre, then beat him again unanimously a...
Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada won the world flyweight title at 19, handed Éder Jofre the only two defeats of his career at bantamweight, and fell just sh...
Brazil's greatest boxer ruled the bantamweights from 1960 to 1965, lost only twice in 78 fights, and came back to win the WBC featherweight title at 3...
Gabriel 'Flash' Elorde rose from poverty in Bogo, Cebu, to beat Sandy Saddler, rule the junior lightweight division from 1960 to 1967 and become the f...
Braddock dropped Joe Louis in the first round at Comiskey Park on 22 June 1937, but Louis knocked him out in the eighth to become heavyweight champion...
Francisco Guilledo rose from a bootblack in Iloilo to knock out Jimmy Wilde at the Polo Grounds in 1923, becoming the first Asian world boxing champio...
A Tylorstown coal miner who learned his trade in fairground booths, Jimmy Wilde became the first world flyweight champion in 1916 and reigned until Pa...
The Cinderella Man went from broken hands, dock labor and public relief to an upset of Max Baer in 1935, then lost the title to Joe Louis, served on S...
Two years after living on state relief, ten-to-one underdog James J. Braddock outpointed Max Baer over 15 rounds at the Madison Square Garden Bowl on...
From a Livermore butcher shop to the heavyweight championship, Max Baer's career ran through the 1930 ring death of Frankie Campbell, a Star of David...
