New York Yankees righthander Don Larsen, who had gone 3-21 just two seasons earlier with the Baltimore Orioles, had only minutes earlier finished pitching the first...
Sergey Kovalev was newly arrived in these United States, hoping to make his mark in the country in which his boxing heroes lived and worked. Then...
Aug. 31 marks the 45th anniversary of the day when Rocky Marciano died in the crash of a small plane in an Iowa cornfield. The only...
You had to have seen it to believe it. Maybe, if you were part of the insanely large, morbidly curious audience that bought into the unprecedented...
If you look back through boxing history, August has been the month of some truly notable matchups: John L. Sullivan’s bare-knuckles KO of Jake Kilrain (in...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Do they still say “’til death do us part” at wedding ceremonies? These days, with the divorce rate continuing to rise, the...
It probably isn’t in any of the history lessons taught in the classrooms of Chelyabinsk, Russia, which is the hometown of WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey...
NEW YORK – The fastest-rising star in boxing has a nickname, “Triple G,” that would seem simple enough to figure out. The star’s full name is,...
Every great athlete in a sport other than boxing believes – or at least wants to believe – that, given enough time to prepare, he could...
For someone with so relatively limited a professional resume, WBA/IBO middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin finds himself in a curious position. The 32-year-old Golovkin (29-0, 26...