Life stories of the champions and contenders who shaped boxing.
Brooklyn's Terry McGovern knocked out Pedlar Palmer and George Dixon to rule two divisions by 1900, then saw a disputed win over Joe Gans and a loss t...
Panama's Eusebio Pedroza won the WBA featherweight title in 1978, defended it across four continents and lost it to Barry McGuigan at Loftus Road in 1...
Carlos Zarate rose from Tepito to the WBC bantamweight title with two runs of 20-plus straight knockouts, lost to Wilfredo Gomez and Lupe Pintor, and...
Born in County Down and raised in Vancouver, Jimmy McLarnin was shaped by manager Pop Foster, beat Benny Leonard, twice held the welterweight title an...
The life of Mike Tyson, from a violent Brooklyn childhood and Cus D'Amato's home in Catskill to the undisputed heavyweight title, prison, comeback and...
Theodore 'Tiger' Flowers, a devout southpaw from Georgia, took the middleweight title from Harry Greb in 1926, lost it on a disputed decision to Micke...
From a shoemaker's son in Junín to the man who sent Jack Dempsey through the ropes, Luis Ángel Firpo became Argentina's first great heavyweight and la...
Born Noah Brusso near Hanover, Ontario, Tommy Burns beat Marvin Hart in 1906, defended the heavyweight title in England, Ireland, France and Australia...
From a farm outside Cadillac, Michigan, Ad Wolgast fought his way to the lightweight title by outlasting Battling Nelson over 40 rounds in 1910. He ke...
Copenhagen-born and Chicago-raised, Battling Nelson took Joe Gans 42 rounds in Goldfield, beat him twice in 1908 to become world lightweight champion,...
James J. Corbett went from a San Francisco bank and the Olympic Club to a 61-round epic with Peter Jackson, the heavyweight title and a long career on...
The son of Irish immigrants in Roxbury, John L. Sullivan became America's first boxing superstar, outlasting Jake Kilrain over 75 bare-knuckle rounds...
