“Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather, 34-0 (23 KOs), widely seen as one of the best pound-for-pound figures in boxing, will engage the willing and able Sharmba Mitchell,...
After his victory over Ketchel, Johnson had become a great favorite of vaudeville agents. Touring in early 1910, he was guaranteed $1,500 a week, a headliner’s...
At 6’0” tall and 135 pounds, undefeated lightweight prospect Jorge Teron of the Bronx, New York, draws a lot of comparisons to Diego Corrales. The tall...
Ten questions for boxing writer and historian Hank Kaplan, who was recently placed on the International Boxing Hall of Fame ballot under the “observers” category. Along...
Cedric Kushner was standing in the center of the ring, thanking everyone. It seemed kind of unusual because the ride boxing has given him over the...
If it’s true that boxing sold its soul to television networks a generation ago, eagerly snatching pay-per-view’s thirty pieces of silver and prostituting itself on the...
On his very first trip to the United States, and in only his third fight fought outside of his native South Africa, Takalani Ndlovu won the...
No one can say that Hasim Rahman has ever been a reluctant warrior. Having faced Lennox Lewis, David Tua (twice each), Evander Holyfield, Corrie Sanders and...
I thoroughly enjoyed writing the “Operation Cleanup” books. In undertaking that project, my goal was to put something together covering the kind of ground that had...
In February of 1961, a fighter named Jim Robinson, allegedly out of Kansas City, climbed into a Miami Beach ring with 19-year-old Cassius Clay as a...
