From Michigan football prospect to world champion at middleweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight, James Toney beat Nunn, Jirov and Holyfield be...
On 11 February 1990 Buster Douglas, grieving his mother and a 42-1 outsider, survived a disputed eighth-round knockdown and stopped the unbeaten Mike...
Riddick Bowe rose from Brownsville, Brooklyn, to Olympic silver and the undisputed heavyweight title in 1992. Then came the binned WBC belt, the Golot...
Arnold Cream of South Jersey spent two decades in poverty and obscurity before becoming Jersey Joe Walcott, the oldest man of his time to win the heav...
In July 1951 Randolph Turpin outpointed Sugar Ray Robinson at Earls Court to become world middleweight champion, only for Robinson to stop him in the...
On 23 May 1922 at Madison Square Garden, Harry Greb took Gene Tunney's American light-heavyweight title in a fifteen-round fight that left Tunney with...
The life of Gene Tunney, the Greenwich Village clerk who became a Marine champion, lost only once in his professional career to Harry Greb, twice beat...
Ezzard Charles beat nearly every top light heavyweight of his era without ever fighting for that title, then won the heavyweight championship and outp...
From the 1974 world amateur title in Havana to 17 knockout defenses at super bantamweight, losses to Salvador Sánchez and Azumah Nelson, and world tit...
Aaron Pryor lost his Olympic place to Howard Davis, then lost only once as a professional and beat Alexis Argüello twice. After years of cocaine addic...
On 12 November 1982 Aaron Pryor stopped Alexis Argüello in the 14th round in Miami, ending the Nicaraguan's bid for a fourth world title. A bottle his...
From a poor Managua barrio to world titles at 126, 130 and 135 pounds, Alexis Argüello lost twice to Aaron Pryor, fought the Sandinistas, later joined...
