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
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:
To state the obvious, fight fans have always been attracted to thunderous power punchers, the fighters who can decide a match with one big shot. The sheer violence of
Throughout his career, Larry Holmes, who is now widely viewed as one of the finest heavyweight boxers of all-time, had been underestimated. When he started fighting his way up
