Unbeaten Mexican bantamweight king Carlos Zárate moved up to challenge Wilfredo Gómez for the WBC super bantamweight title in San Juan on October 28,...
In Carson City on 17 March 1897, Bob Fitzsimmons dethroned heavyweight champion James J. Corbett with a 14th-round body blow while Enoch Rector's came...
Born in Helston and raised at his father's forge in Timaru, Bob Fitzsimmons won world titles at middleweight, heavyweight and light heavyweight. His s...
In Colma in October 1909, middleweight king Stanley Ketchel knocked down heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in the 12th round and was knocked out withi...
A Grand Rapids runaway who learned to fight in Montana, Stanley Ketchel won, lost and regained the middleweight title against Billy Papke and floored...
Robbed of Olympic gold in Seoul in 1988, Roy Jones Jr. beat Bernard Hopkins and James Toney, ruled light heavyweight and took the WBA heavyweight titl...
A 38-year-old Muhammad Ali, slimmed down with the help of a thyroid drug and licensed despite worrying Mayo Clinic findings, took ten one-sided rounds...
Benny Leonard fought under a borrowed name, held the lightweight title from 1917 to 1925 and retired as champion. He lost his fortune in the 1929 cras...
In twelve months between 1934 and 1935, Barney Ross and Jimmy McLarnin traded the welterweight championship three times in New York. Ross won two narr...
Barney Ross lost his father to a robbery in Chicago, won world titles at lightweight, junior welterweight and welterweight, and fought a famous trilog...
Born in Slidell, Louisiana and raised in the New York fight clubs, Tony Canzoneri won world titles at featherweight, lightweight and junior welterweig...
Andrew Golota was outfighting Riddick Bowe at Madison Square Garden in July 1996 when repeated low blows got him disqualified and set off a riot in th...
