Larry Holmes Challenged Me to a Fight (I Declined) “Mama always said, life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get,”...
Every Joe Gans Lightweight Title Fight – Part 9: Jimmy Britt There is no difference between a white man and a colored man when they are...
Gans is a wonderful fighter, but his showing in his fights during the last five months indicates that he has gone back to some extent. –...
BOOK REVIEW by THOMAS HAUSER — George Dixon was boxing’s first Black world champion. “For a decade leading into the twentieth century,” Jason Winders writes, “few...
Color ought not to cut any figure in the ring so long as a man is willing to do his best. – Joe Gans As 1903...
Where did you get this fellow? – Joe Gans, November 14 1902. I have embarked upon some difficult projects over the past thirteen years writing about...
Boxing Odds and Ends: Weekend Betting Preview and Obits Several of my acquaintances have a bank of TVs in a room of their home. They are...
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...