For middleweight legend Stanley Ketchel, the boxing ring was the only theater in which his mania could legally project its voice. Born in 1886 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and
Manchester United striker Benjamin Sesko has made a slow start to life at Old Trafford and was on the bench against Liverpool as well, whereas Joshua Zirkzee has failed
In labeling Punching from the Shadows a memoir, Glen Sharp might be selling short his autobiographical work. More than a memoir, Sharp presents in his book a thorough and
Yesterday marked the ninth anniversary of the unexpected loss of a singular figure in the long history of professional prizefighting, the one-and-only Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor. Our own Robert
In boxing, the spectacle of a once-great champion left broken and humbled by Father Time is both profoundly disturbing and, sadly, all too common. With precious few exceptions, the
On October 7, 1995, top heavyweights Lennox Lewis and Tommy Morrison clashed at the Atlantic City Convention Center for Morrison’s IBC belt, though the title was a minor formality
HBO’s 2008 film Thrilla In Manila is a sports documentary with an agenda; not necessarily a bad thing, but when a bias obscures and twists the truth, as happens here,
