The life of Tyson Fury, the Irish Traveller from Manchester who dethroned Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, gave up his titles during a mental health crisis...
Anthony Joshua took up boxing at 18, won Olympic gold in London and beat Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley before the Ruiz upset, two Usyk defeats and a f...
The life and career of Oleksandr Usyk, from a Crimean football academy and Olympic gold in London to the undisputed cruiserweight title, two wins each...
Ingemar Johansson floored Floyd Patterson seven times in one round to take the heavyweight title at Yankee Stadium in 1959; Patterson knocked him cold...
Between 1948 and 1951 Willie Pep and Sandy Saddler fought four times for the featherweight title in New York. Saddler won three, but Pep's 1949 rematc...
Disqualified and denied his silver medal at the 1952 Olympics, Gothenburg's Ingemar Johansson rebuilt his name, won the European title and knocked out...
José Nápoles left Cuba after professional boxing was banned there and made Mexico City his home. From there he won the world welterweight title twice...
Gene Fullmer left a Utah copper mine to win the middleweight title from Sugar Ray Robinson in 1957, reigned as NBA champion from 1959 to 1962, and los...
Nino Benvenuti, born in Isola d'Istria, won Olympic gold in Rome, held world titles at junior middleweight and middleweight, fought Emile Griffith thr...
Nino Benvenuti and Emile Griffith fought three fifteen-round title fights in New York in under a year, from the 1967 Fight of the Year at Madison Squa...
On 24 March 1962 Emile Griffith stopped Benny 'Kid' Paret in the 12th round at Madison Square Garden; Paret died ten days later, putting referee Ruby...
Emile Griffith left Saint Thomas for a New York hat factory and became a welterweight and middleweight champion. His career was shadowed by Benny Pare...
