Life stories of the champions and contenders who shaped boxing.
Miguel Cotto was born in Providence and raised in Caguas. He boxed at the Sydney Olympics and became the first Puerto Rican to win world titles in fou...
Elizabeth, New Jersey's Mickey Walker won the welterweight and middleweight titles in the 1920s, drew with Jack Sharkey as a blown-up heavyweight, and...
Harry Greb fought roughly 300 times, gave Gene Tunney his only defeat in 1922 and held the world middleweight title from 1923 to 1926 while secretly b...
Born in Torrance and raised in Tijuana, Antonio Margarito won three welterweight titles and stopped Miguel Cotto in 2008, before illegal hand wraps fo...
Ronald 'Winky' Wright spent years fighting abroad before beating Shane Mosley twice in 2004 to become undisputed junior middleweight champion and shut...
From Augusta, Georgia, to two wins over Shane Mosley, two losses to Ricardo Mayorga and two junior middleweight titles, Vernon Forrest built a career...
From a Hyde council estate to the night Kostya Tszyu quit on his stool, the travelling army in Las Vegas, the defeats to Mayweather and Pacquiao, and...
Sonny Liston learned to box in the Missouri State Penitentiary, fought under mob-linked management, and twice knocked out Floyd Patterson in one round...
The two-time WBC lightweight champion from Sonora learned his trade sparring with Julio César Chávez, lost two disputed decisions to Floyd Mayweather...
From a 1991 retirement and a rebuilt hand to the WBU title, the Gatti trilogy and a Hollywood film, the life of Lowell's Micky Ward, including his ple...
The life of Arturo Gatti, two-weight world champion and Hall of Famer, from his Italian birth and Montreal upbringing to his Atlantic City wars and hi...
Diego "Chico" Corrales rose from Sacramento's Oak Park to world titles at super featherweight and lightweight, through a loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr.,...
