Hopkins vs Trinidad 2001: The Flag, the Delay After 9/11 and the Night Hopkins Became Undisputed
Postponed by the September 11 attacks and poisoned by Hopkins's flag-throwing stunts, the 2001 middleweight final at Madison Square Garden ended with...
Legendary fights, eras and turning points of the sport, told from the record.
Postponed by the September 11 attacks and poisoned by Hopkins's flag-throwing stunts, the 2001 middleweight final at Madison Square Garden ended with...
On 21 August 1981 at Caesars Palace, Mexico's WBC featherweight champion Salvador Sánchez floored the unbeaten Puerto Rican Wilfredo Gómez in the firs...
Kim Duk-koo collapsed after Ray Mancini stopped him in the 14th round at Caesars Palace in November 1982 and never woke. His death, and the tragedies...
Rubén Olivares and Chucho Castillo fought three times for the bantamweight title at the Inglewood Forum: a points win for Olivares, a cut stoppage for...
On a split decision in Nagoya in May 1965, Fighting Harada took the bantamweight title from the unbeaten Éder Jofre, then beat him again unanimously a...
Braddock dropped Joe Louis in the first round at Comiskey Park on 22 June 1937, but Louis knocked him out in the eighth to become heavyweight champion...
Two years after living on state relief, ten-to-one underdog James J. Braddock outpointed Max Baer over 15 rounds at the Madison Square Garden Bowl on...
Carmen Basilio took Sugar Ray Robinson's middleweight title on a split decision at Yankee Stadium in 1957; six months later in Chicago, Robinson won i...
At Caesars Palace on 30 November 1979, Sugar Ray Leonard spent fifteen rounds solving Wilfred Benítez's elusive defence before a final-round knockdown...
Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano met three times for the middleweight title between 1946 and 1948, and no fight went past the sixth round. Zale won in New...
Unbeaten Mexican bantamweight king Carlos Zárate moved up to challenge Wilfredo Gómez for the WBC super bantamweight title in San Juan on October 28,...
In Carson City on 17 March 1897, Bob Fitzsimmons dethroned heavyweight champion James J. Corbett with a 14th-round body blow while Enoch Rector's came...