Life stories of the champions and contenders who shaped boxing.
Rocky Graziano went from Lower East Side street crime, reform school and an Army court-martial to the 1947 middleweight title. His wars with Tony Zale...
From Klein Luckow to the heavyweight title, Kristallnacht, the Battle of Crete and a Coca-Cola fortune, Max Schmeling's 99 years ran through Germany's...
Willie Pep won 62 straight fights, became featherweight champion at 20, survived a 1947 plane crash, and fought Sandy Saddler four times. He finished...
Born Joseph Paul Zukauskas to Lithuanian immigrants in Binghamton, Jack Sharkey learned to box in the US Navy, fought Dempsey, Schmeling, Carnera and...
From Carroll, Ohio and the boiler shops of Los Angeles to the heavyweight title, James J. Jeffries beat Fitzsimmons, survived 25 rounds with Sharkey u...
Born in Helston and raised at his father's forge in Timaru, Bob Fitzsimmons won world titles at middleweight, heavyweight and light heavyweight. His s...
A Grand Rapids runaway who learned to fight in Montana, Stanley Ketchel won, lost and regained the middleweight title against Billy Papke and floored...
Robbed of Olympic gold in Seoul in 1988, Roy Jones Jr. beat Bernard Hopkins and James Toney, ruled light heavyweight and took the WBA heavyweight titl...
Benny Leonard fought under a borrowed name, held the lightweight title from 1917 to 1925 and retired as champion. He lost his fortune in the 1929 cras...
Barney Ross lost his father to a robbery in Chicago, won world titles at lightweight, junior welterweight and welterweight, and fought a famous trilog...
Born in Slidell, Louisiana and raised in the New York fight clubs, Tony Canzoneri won world titles at featherweight, lightweight and junior welterweig...
From Michigan football prospect to world champion at middleweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight, James Toney beat Nunn, Jirov and Holyfield be...
