Life stories of the champions and contenders who shaped boxing.
Riddick Bowe rose from Brownsville, Brooklyn, to Olympic silver and the undisputed heavyweight title in 1992. Then came the binned WBC belt, the Golot...
Arnold Cream of South Jersey spent two decades in poverty and obscurity before becoming Jersey Joe Walcott, the oldest man of his time to win the heav...
The life of Gene Tunney, the Greenwich Village clerk who became a Marine champion, lost only once in his professional career to Harry Greb, twice beat...
Ezzard Charles beat nearly every top light heavyweight of his era without ever fighting for that title, then won the heavyweight championship and outp...
From the 1974 world amateur title in Havana to 17 knockout defenses at super bantamweight, losses to Salvador Sánchez and Azumah Nelson, and world tit...
Aaron Pryor lost his Olympic place to Howard Davis, then lost only once as a professional and beat Alexis Argüello twice. After years of cocaine addic...
From a poor Managua barrio to world titles at 126, 130 and 135 pounds, Alexis Argüello lost twice to Aaron Pryor, fought the Sandinistas, later joined...
The life of Carlos Monzón, the Argentine who upset Nino Benvenuti in Rome in 1970, made fourteen middleweight title defenses and retired unbeaten as c...
Boston-born and Harlem-raised, Sandy Saddler stopped more than a hundred opponents, beat Willie Pep in three of their four fights and was still champi...
Salvador Sánchez won the WBC featherweight title from Danny López in 1980, stopped Wilfredo Gómez and Azumah Nelson, and was killed in a car crash in...
The life of Naseem Hamed, the Sheffield southpaw who won WBO, IBF and WBC featherweight titles with outrageous style, survived Kevin Kelley at Madison...
Born in London and raised in the South Wales valleys, Joe Calzaghe was trained throughout by his father Enzo, held the WBO super-middleweight title fo...
