The Hauser Report: Boxing Through Young Eyes My uncle died in early-October. As per his request, he was cremated and the family converged in New York...
On March 29, 1966, Bob Arum promoted his first fight, a 15-round contest between Muhammad Ali and George Chuvalo at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. Fifty-five...
Pete Rademacher, who won a gold medal in the heavyweight class at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics but would be best remembered for his “freak fight” with...
Sixty years have elapsed since Ingemar Johansson made his U.S. debut with a shocking demolition of defending heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson. Now another fighter from Sweden,...
Lou Savarese could hardly contain himself. There he was, just four years after his last professional boxing match, a Bronx-born, boxing behemoth bursting into the room...
BOOK REVIEW BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MIKE CAHILL — I just finished reading Jonathan Eig’s “Ali: A Life.” Although I enjoyed the first half of the book,...
They were sad eyes, those eyes of his. Despite his six feet and five inches in height they always seemed to be staring up at you,...
On Tuesday, May 15, Jerry Quarry would have celebrated his 73rd birthday. Quarry was never the heavyweight champion of the world, but he sure fought like...
An interesting array of boxing people responded to our survey. The offshoot was a two-part story. Here are the remaining responses. The irony—or maybe the evolution
Time will tell, but he can take encouragement from the examples of the fighters listed below who regained their footing after a career dip. They are...