Category: Featurepost

In its visual style and heady narrative, Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) resembles few other films of its genre and ranks among the greatest boxing movies of all time.

Until December of 1952, some eighteen years after he had embarked on what would eventually be an all-time great pro career, Archie Moore was part of that long list

It is often the case with dynamic brawlers who rely on physical strength, constant aggression, and a seemingly inhuman ability to absorb punishment that, like an engine habitually pushed

For Elio Ortiz the end came in round four after he visited the canvas a fifth time at the hands of Teddy Reid. Reid himself had been rocked and

In 1976, a group of young athletes journeyed to Montreal to fight for their country. There were no great expectations for the men who populated the American Olympic boxing

I have never agreed with those fight “fans” who judge boxers harshly for quitting. Any man or woman who enters the ring possesses courage that distinguishes them from us

What became known as “The Night of the Ramos” happened on this day at the legendary Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles and for those who witnessed this bloody, action-packed

He was just thirty-two when he left this world but if, as the old saw goes, only the good die young, then Tiger Flowers could never have escaped his

Ike Williams and Bob Montgomery made no secret of the fact that they disliked one another and their animosity made for a pair of brutal clashes in Philadelphia, one

All intentional fouls or blindside hits are cheap, but for this list we define a “cheap shot,” also known as a “sucker punch,” as a blow rendered when the