Legendary fights, eras and turning points of the sport, told from the record.
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...
In Colma in October 1909, middleweight king Stanley Ketchel knocked down heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in the 12th round and was knocked out withi...
A 38-year-old Muhammad Ali, slimmed down with the help of a thyroid drug and licensed despite worrying Mayo Clinic findings, took ten one-sided rounds...
In twelve months between 1934 and 1935, Barney Ross and Jimmy McLarnin traded the welterweight championship three times in New York. Ross won two narr...
Andrew Golota was outfighting Riddick Bowe at Madison Square Garden in July 1996 when repeated low blows got him disqualified and set off a riot in th...
