The life of Carlos Monzón, the Argentine who upset Nino Benvenuti in Rome in 1970, made fourteen middleweight title defenses and retired unbeaten as c...
Boston-born and Harlem-raised, Sandy Saddler stopped more than a hundred opponents, beat Willie Pep in three of their four fights and was still champi...
Between their two famous title fights, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met at Madison Square Garden in January 1974. A televised studio scuffle, a refere...
Salvador Sánchez won the WBC featherweight title from Danny López in 1980, stopped Wilfredo Gómez and Azumah Nelson, and was killed in a car crash in...
Billy Conn outboxed Joe Louis for twelve rounds at the Polo Grounds and led on two official cards, then chose to trade and was knocked out at 2:58 of...
In September 1993 Pernell Whitaker outboxed an unbeaten Julio César Chávez before a huge San Antonio crowd, yet two judges scored it level. The story...
Eight months after beating Mike Tyson, Buster Douglas weighed in at 246 pounds for his first defense and was knocked out by Evander Holyfield in the t...
The life of Naseem Hamed, the Sheffield southpaw who won WBO, IBF and WBC featherweight titles with outrageous style, survived Kevin Kelley at Madison...
Born in London and raised in the South Wales valleys, Joe Calzaghe was trained throughout by his father Enzo, held the WBO super-middleweight title fo...
A heavy underdog in Miami Beach, 22-year-old Cassius Clay survived a near-blinding fifth round and took the heavyweight title when Sonny Liston failed...
The life of Ken Norton, the Jacksonville, Illinois athlete who learned to box in the Marines, broke Muhammad Ali's jaw, was named WBC heavyweight cham...
In May 1965 Sonny Liston went down in the first round of his rematch with Muhammad Ali in a small Maine hockey rink, and a botched count turned the kn...
