Top Rank Promotions was at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, New York, tonight with a 9-bout card topped by a pair of world...
‘How To Box’ by Joe Louis: Part 5 – Defense He was a master on defense.”—Nat Fleischer The judgment of the founder of The Ring magazine is not...
There is a certain type of Joe Louis opponent. He is not defined by the style with which he boxes, his size or his temperament. What...
It’s still in print. You can log on to Amazon right now and buy one for yourself, renamed, repackaged, all shiny and new. But I like...
If referees boogied toward the ring to the sound of their own entrance music, as all reasonably relevant fighters do now, the logical guess is that...
Tiger Jack Fox was 47 years old, or thereabouts, when he suffered a fatal heart attack in front of a movie theater in his adopted hometown...
The Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame Welcomes Native Son Bernard Hopkins Some athletes are so obviously gifted that they appear to have burst into prominence at...
On June 7, 1950, Lee Savold defeated Bruce Woodcock before 50,000 at London’s White City Stadium. Savold had all the best of it before Woodcock’s corner...
Harvey Araton Reflects on the Odd Coupling of Ali-Liston II and Lewiston, Maine It’s rarely the case, but in a few instances a heavyweight championship fight...
The glimpses are not as sharp as they once were, but they still provide me with guilty pleasure. Now closing in on 85, I’m not about...