Jimmy Clabby was named to the International Boxing Hall of Fame this month and will be formally inducted at the Hall’s annual jamboree in June. Clabby,...
When Boxing was Big in Butte, Montana Prior to World War I, prizefighting in the United States was controversial. Preachers denounced it from their pulpits and...
Clay Moyle, a longtime resident of the Seattle area, once thought it would be cool to own a biography of every heavyweight champion of the Queensberry...
The Jan. 14, 1913 fight between Leach Cross and Mexican Joe Rivers was a humdinger, but for some fight-goers it was a night to forget. The...
How many boxing books does one really need to own? I don’t know, but I’m sure that I blew by whatever that number is a long...
Color ought not to cut any figure in the ring so long as a man is willing to do his best. – Joe Gans As 1903...
This was the seventh meeting of the rival lightweights. In all previous ones McFadden held his own, making a brave stand against the colored wonder. Since...
William Gildea covered many sporting events during his 50-plus years with the Washington Post – his assignments took him around the world – but Gildea, who...