After Billy Conn came within two seconds of the bell in 1941, a broken hand and the Second World War delayed his return with Joe Louis until June 1946...
A steam fitter's son who paid for boxing lessons by sweeping a Pittsburgh gym, Billy Conn became light heavyweight champion at 21, nearly took Joe Lou...
Sam Langford beat champions from lightweight to heavyweight, but the colour line, and Jack Johnson, kept him from ever fighting for the world heavywei...
Pone Kingpetch beat Pascual Pérez in Bangkok in 1960 to become Thailand's first world boxing champion, then lost and regained the flyweight crown agai...
Joe Gans rose from Baltimore's battle royals to become the first American-born Black world champion in 1902, beat Battling Nelson over 42 rounds in Go...
Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo went from selling newspapers in Havana to winning the junior lightweight title at Shibe Park in 1931, making him Cuba's first...
Pascual Pérez, a five-foot flyweight from Mendoza's wine country, won Olympic gold in London in 1948 and then beat Yoshio Shirai in Tokyo in 1954 to b...
In September 2008 the unbeaten Colombian Breidis Prescott knocked out Amir Khan in the first round at the MEN Arena. Khan replaced Jorge Rubio with Fr...
Giving away close to 100 pounds and fighting most of the night with an injured right hand, David Haye outboxed Nikolai Valuev in Nuremberg on 7 Novemb...
Fernando Vargas won a light middleweight world title at 21, then fought Félix Trinidad, Oscar De La Hoya and Shane Mosley, and tested positive for a s...
Oscar De La Hoya and Ike Quartey traded knockdowns in the sixth round in Las Vegas in February 1999 before a final-round rally helped De La Hoya keep...
Ike 'Bazooka' Quartey went from Accra's Bukom district and the 1988 Seoul Olympics to four years as WBA welterweight champion, and then lost the dispu...
