The black champion walked to his corner at once and began preparations for departure while McPartland was still struggling against fate on the floor. – The...
Gans left the ring without a scratch – The Brooklyn Eagle, 25th July, 1902. Rufe Turner was a puncher. Between the dawn of the twentieth century...
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...
The lightninglike character of the defeat struck consternation into the hearts of the thousand Erne men at the ringside. They were dumfounded. Their champion had met...
Joe Gans of Baltimore lost the confidence and respect of the sporting public last night by deliberately quitting in the twelfth round of the bout with...
“—C’mon!” said Teofimo Lopez with two seconds left in the 12th round. It was a Brooklyn thing to say on a Brooklyn-type Saturday night, and Lopez...
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...
Former featherweight and lightweight champion Frank Erne was back in the news last week with the announcement that he is entering the International Boxing Hall of...
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...
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...