“He was a great teacher,” said Billy Conn. “[Fighting Zivic] was like going to college for five years, just boxing him ten rounds…” Fritzie Zivic never...
“Lionell ‘Lonnie B’ Thompson is a former professional boxer…” So reads the opening sentence of a blurb about him that popped up on the internet. Except...
Test your knowledge of boxing history in this 15-question multiple-choice trivia quiz. Get 12 or more right and go to the head of the class. 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...
The question for our final quarterly survey of 2019 was this: “If you were to make a boxing movie, what would the subject be? How might...
A Review of When Pittsburgh Was a Fight Town (2019) Roy McHugh never met Harry Greb. He was eleven when the Pittsburgh Pandemonium passed away on...
In June of 1959, Don Chargin received a phone call from an anonymous person with a gruff voice warning him to stay out of southern California
Sometimes the story you think you’re going to write takes a swift and decisive turn, as can be the case in boxing, where the outcome of...
The common thread in this trivia test is that every person whose name appears has been named to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. There are...