At the end of the second, Frankie Campbell tells his corner, “Something feels like it broke in my head.” He’d put future heavyweight champion Max Baer down in that
The middleweights have traditionally been regarded as one of boxing’s true “glamour” divisions, boasting some of the best talent to ever lace ’em up and some of the fight
When Julian “The Hawk” Jackson challenged Mike “The Body Snatcher” McCallum on this day in 1986 for the latter’s WBA junior middleweight strap, it was more than just a
“Before each round Ricardo looks up to the heavens, then goes out to kill, kill, kill. It’s like he’s asking permission from God to annihilate the other guy.” In
It is hardly controversial to say that 1976’s Rocky is the most identifiable boxing movie of all time. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year; it
People are a product of their environment; where and how you grow up shapes what you become. The same is true for boxers and how they box. Cuban pugilists
One of the perennial frustrations of being a boxing fan is that so many of the most intriguing and meaningful match-ups simply never happen. It’s a shame Jack Dempsey
“I’m convinced that Salvador Sanchez was the best Mexican fighter of all time. Even better than Julio Cesar Chavez.” — Wilfredo Gomez “He consistently showed the understanding and awareness
A year ago, the boxing world was facing the possibility of a most unexpected event: an actual prizefight between Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr., the former “Kid Dynamite”
Does Matthew Saad Muhammad qualify as, pound-for-pound, a truly “great” fighter in terms of skill and talent? Maybe not, but strictly in regards to heart, courage, excitement and the
