In the build-up to Rocky Marciano’s first confrontation with Ezzard Charles, The Miami Herald cast an eye back to The Rock’s heartbreaking 1951 destruction of Joe Louis. In...
LOS ANGELES-Giant killers in heavyweight boxing like Andy Ruiz have existed since the beginning of prizefighting. Can his ability to disrupt bigger men continue? Though listed...
We’re going way back, but there was a time when the Fourth of July was a big day for boxing in the U.S. The high-water mark,...
Tyson Fury announced that his fight with Dillian Whyte would be his last rodeo. Some people were inclined to believe him. “Fury retains heavyweight belt in...
According to crackerjack publicist Madelyn Flax, the June 1, 1939 fight at Yankee Stadium between Lou Nova and Max Baer has the distinction of being the...
We’re going way back, but there was a time when the Fourth of July was a big day for boxing in the U.S. The high-water mark,...
In the movie The Harder they Fall, boxer Buddy Brannen (played by Max Baer) renders a horrific beating on Gus Dundee (played by former heavyweight contender...
Boxing’s Thrill Factory: Then and Now Through the years — going back even before Jack Dempsey — some fighters included maximum aggression and violence in their...
A few weeks back, yet another newspaper sports column suggested boxing has deceased or is enduring its last rites. It’s easy to claim the sky is...
Joe Smith Jr. knows what much of the world thinks of him, in a boxing sense. He was dismissed as a “common” man by future Hall...