Leroy Caldwell passed away during the second week of February at a hospital in Las Vegas. He was 77 years old. The local papers and TV...
It is human nature, one supposes, to categorize people as members of easily identifiable groups. As far as pet preferences go, there are dog people and...
On Sept. 9, 1978, a Bayonne, New Jersey brawler who was billed as Rocky Estafire when he was first starting out, stopped slick Bobby “Boogaloo” Watts...
Goodbye To All Of That: A Review of Mike Silver’s ‘The Night the Referee Hit Back’ Mike Silver has been writing about boxing since the 1970s,...
In the movie The Harder they Fall, boxer Buddy Brannen (played by Max Baer) renders a horrific beating on Gus Dundee (played by former heavyweight contender...
Today (Wednesday, Oct. 23) marks the 55th anniversary of the aborted fight at the Las Vegas Convention Center between Joey Giardello and challenger Rubin “Hurricane” Carter...
Being a gatekeeper, especially in boxing, can be a lonely and underappreciated function. And in the 1950s, a golden age for the sport, that might have...
This past weekend boxing fans were treated to an exciting action-packed WBC welterweight title bout between former titlists Shawn Porter 29-2-1 (17) and Danny Garcia 34-2...
Anyone who’s into sports is also into making lists, and boxing fans are no different. We all tend to update our all-time and current pound-for-pound top...
Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson are two of the three most significant fighters to ever grace the sport of boxing. The other, of course, is...