Former middleweight titlist Teddy Yarosz was embarrassed. It was June 1st, 1937 and Yarosz, not long ago one of boxing’s biggest stars, had made the 360-mile trip from his
Five decades later, one still hears the echoes, the reverberations of that final, epic struggle between two heavyweight legends. After all, it was more than a championship boxing match,
A while back authors and site contributors David Curcio and Andrew Rihn launched a series of erudite dialogues on great fight movies, with engaging discussions on such classics as
It was on this day back in 2001 that Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins‘ stubborn, persistent drive to reach the peak of the mountain finally paid off. He scored the
“I would have quit, but I didn’t know how to do anything else but fight.” Beyond the mythologies and whimsical fairy tales full of heroes who sneered at adversity
In a time of constant media exposure and fifteen second attention spans, it is now almost impossible to fully appreciate the larger-than-life fame and popularity of Muhammad Ali in
We talk of fighters having a “puncher’s chance,” and that, more than anything else, was what Earnie Shavers brought into the ring at Caesars Palace on this fateful night,
There’s little doubt that Ezzard Charles is one of boxing’s most underrated champions. A skillful technician, he holds wins over a long list of great fighters and he surely
Time flies and it’s now almost a decade since Britain’s Kell Brook tried to shake up the boxing world by challenging feared knockout puncher Gennady Golovkin at The O2
