The popularity of boxing has waxed and waned over the decades, but the 1950s saw a new source of anxiety emerge for professional prizefighting: television. With boxing featured on
The writer of a profile of Jimmy Wilde, aka “The Mighty Atom,” is tempted to outline the particulars of Wilde’s incredible record – 152 bouts, 146 victories, a hundred
Like anyone who identifies as something of a boxing diehard, I’m familiar with the name Ezzard Charles. However, if pressed I could not tell you much more than this:
Today, your favorite independent fight site, like the rest of the boxing world, marks the anniversary of Muhammad Ali’s birth, and so what better time to re-feature an in-depth
Boxing is not an old man’s sport and over the decades there have been plenty of what we might call “passing-the-torch” fights, when age gives way to younger legs
It is 1942, a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and America is at war. As the country enters this new chapter in its history, one thing remains unchanged:
As Marvin Gaye sang back in the day, “Ain’t nothin’ like the real thing, baby,” and these days how boxing fans yearn for “the real thing,” for meaningful competition
A while back we published our list of the greatest middleweights of all time and when we did we promised to follow-up with additional rankings for all of the
Author and site contributor Kenneth Bridgham’s second book is a biography of the great Henry Melody Jackson Jr., aka legendary triple-crown champ Henry Armstrong, who was born on this
Bad decisions. Robberies. Ridiculous scorecards. Maybe nothing sickens a fight fan more than judges rendering a final verdict which makes a mockery of a hard-fought contest. Sadly, such incidents
