December 28: This Day in Boxing History: The Enduring Legacy of George Dixon December 28 sits quietly on the boxing calendar, tucked between Christmas and New...
November 16 reveals a fascinating cross-section of boxing’s evolution: sustained dominance, stylistic innovation, and high-stakes unification — all wrapped in different eras, and all telling part...
In olden days, many boxers were drawn from the ranks of newsboys. The newsboy boxer was a staple of so-called smokers during the early decades of...
It’s Kentucky Derby Week (sort of), so Let’s Talk Boxing This is the week that many of us would have shifted our gaze from boxing to...
Beneath his salty exterior, Roger Mayweather had the soul of a scholar when the subject turned to the history of boxing. We suspect that Mayweather, who...
GREATEST FEATHERWEIGHTS, PART V: It is possible that the Top Five listed below is the single finest collection of fighters I have assembled in running down...