From a poor village in Friuli and a French circus to the heavyweight title in 1933, Primo Carnera's career was shaped by mob managers, arranged fights...
From Sidi Bel Abbès and Casablanca to the world middleweight title, Marcel Cerdan lost only four times in 114 fights before his romance with Édith Pia...
Carmen Basilio took Sugar Ray Robinson's middleweight title on a split decision at Yankee Stadium in 1957; six months later in Chicago, Robinson won i...
At Caesars Palace on 30 November 1979, Sugar Ray Leonard spent fifteen rounds solving Wilfred Benítez's elusive defence before a final-round knockdown...
Carmen Basilio left an onion farm in Canastota, New York, to win the welterweight title twice and take the middleweight crown from Sugar Ray Robinson...
From the steel mills of Gary to two middleweight championships, wartime Navy service and a brutal trilogy with Rocky Graziano, Tony Zale built a caree...
Rocky Graziano went from Lower East Side street crime, reform school and an Army court-martial to the 1947 middleweight title. His wars with Tony Zale...
Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano met three times for the middleweight title between 1946 and 1948, and no fight went past the sixth round. Zale won in New...
From Klein Luckow to the heavyweight title, Kristallnacht, the Battle of Crete and a Coca-Cola fortune, Max Schmeling's 99 years ran through Germany's...
Willie Pep won 62 straight fights, became featherweight champion at 20, survived a 1947 plane crash, and fought Sandy Saddler four times. He finished...
Born Joseph Paul Zukauskas to Lithuanian immigrants in Binghamton, Jack Sharkey learned to box in the US Navy, fought Dempsey, Schmeling, Carnera and...
From Carroll, Ohio and the boiler shops of Los Angeles to the heavyweight title, James J. Jeffries beat Fitzsimmons, survived 25 rounds with Sharkey u...
