Ken Norton broke Muhammad Ali's jaw and beat him in San Diego in 1973, lost the rematch by one judge's vote, then lost a 1976 title fight at Yankee St...
Born in Benoit, Mississippi and raised in St. Louis, Archie Moore won the light-heavyweight title near 40, challenged Marciano and Patterson, rose fro...
From Columbus, Mississippi and the streets of St. Louis to three simultaneous world championships in 1938, a disputed draw at middleweight and a secon...
From a New York reformatory to the world middleweight title, Jake LaMotta's career included the first loss of Sugar Ray Robinson's career, a fixed 194...
Across three fights and nine knockdowns, Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder went from a disputed draw in Los Angeles to a corner stoppage and an 11th-round...
After more than five years of failed negotiations, Floyd Mayweather Jr. outpointed Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand on 2 May 2015 in the richest fight...
How London's 1909 limits and New York's 1920 Walker Law created boxing's original eight divisions, how junior and super classes filled the gaps, and h...
Born in Tennessee and raised in Detroit, Thomas Hearns became a feared puncher under Emanuel Steward at the Kronk Gym, stopped Pipino Cuevas in 1980 a...
John Graham Chambers' code of the 1860s, issued under the Marquess of Queensberry's name, replaced the London Prize Ring Rules with gloves, timed roun...
Born in a Soviet garrison town in Kyrgyzstan, Vitali Klitschko won world titles in kickboxing, gave Lennox Lewis the fight of his life in 2003 and ret...
After a press conference brawl got Mike Tyson refused a licence in Nevada, the fight moved to The Pyramid in Memphis, where Lennox Lewis jabbed his wa...
On 20 June 1980 at Montreal's Olympic Stadium, Roberto Durán drew Sugar Ray Leonard into a fifteen-round brawl and took his WBC welterweight title on...
