Legendary fights, eras and turning points of the sport, told from the record.
On 26 December 1908 at Rushcutters Bay, Jack Johnson outclassed Tommy Burns until police stopped the fight in the 14th round. Johnson became the first...
Joe Louis dehydrated himself to weigh under 200 pounds, trailed Billy Conn on two of three cards after 12 rounds and was told he needed a knockout. Th...
How a Nevada mining camp bought a lightweight title fight with a purse in $20 gold pieces, how Joe Gans and Battling Nelson fought for 42 rounds until...
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...
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...
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...
Andy Ruiz Jr. took Anthony Joshua's heavyweight titles with a seventh-round stoppage at Madison Square Garden in June 2019 after stepping in for Jarre...
Terence Crawford dropped Errol Spence Jr. three times and stopped him at 2:32 of the ninth round in Las Vegas on 29 July 2023, becoming the first undi...
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...
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...
