Last weekend he looked terrific. The speed was apparent, the flash and the pot-shot punching was there too. He picked his spots and fought as the...
Former Light Heavyweight World Champion Billy Conn was born on October 8th, 1917 in East Liberty, Pennsylvania. In his youth, Billy Conn met a Pittsburgh boxer...
A kind of giddiness surfaces from even the most stoic people when you mention the sudden rise of Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, the WBA and IBO middleweight...
A side versus A side, that’s what we fight fans want. No rocket science to it…bells, whistles, great, whatev…But we don’t deserve gussied up pigs with...
The sanctioning bodies get flak galore for sometimes being fast and loose with their regulations. But, looking on the bright side, at least they HAVE rules...
Compassion? Oh, sure, there is lots of it in boxing, if you know where to look. There is the memory of a concerned Floyd Patterson kneeling...
Boxers, the best of them, aren’t like you and me. In situations where you or I would cave in, capitulate, they soldier on. So when a...
Great middleweights outrank great fighters on this list. That’s why the likes of Roy Jones and Billy Conn languish behind Gene Fullmer and Nino Benvenuti. A...
Talk, so cheap. Easy to promise, swear up, down, all around, I’ve changed. I’ve learned. I’ve smartened up, chilled down.. But the proof, we need to...
CARSON, CALIF.—It was an ugly, frustrating fight for the fans, but Ukraine’s Viktor Postol rallied from behind to score a stunning knockout in the 10th round...