Gerrie Coetzee’s conquest of defending world heavyweight champion Michael Dokes on Sept. 9, 1983, was one of the biggest upsets of the 1980s. Coetzee had failed...
Bob Arum Perseveres as Many of His Old Stomping Grounds Bite the Dust Someone once said that the only constant in life is change. That goes...
In our annual year-end necrology, we say goodbye to those that left their mark on the noble but too-often unforgiving sport of boxing. Many of the...
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...
British Boxing Writer Tris Dixon Has Authored a Long-Overdue Book “Terrific beatings taken on the head reduced some of the old boxers to a state of...
It’s one thing to get to the top, but it’s something else entirely to remain there for more than half a century. Jerry Izenberg, longtime sports...
Anecdotes. Everybody who has spent any appreciable amount of time in and around boxing has ’em, personal memories of notable and not-so-notable figures in the sport...
A second member of the fabled 1976 U.S. Olympic Boxing Team has died. Davey Armstrong, who spent his best days as a boxer chasing Olympic gold,...
A friend inquired if I happened to know the odds on the first Ali-Spinks fight. “No, I don’t,” I said, “but no problem, I’ll just look...
No one could ever confuse former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks, who on Friday night finally succumbed to the multiple cancers that for several years had been...