Many count Castillo vs. Corrales (2005) as their favorite. Fans of an earlier generation were partial to Graziano vs. Zale (1947), Pep vs. Saddler (1949), DeMarco...
Sometimes the loser of an athletic competition performs so far above his level of expectation that he is credited with a moral victory. Twenty-nine years ago...
Most boxing careers reflect a variation of a bell-shaped curve. The downward slope on the right-hand side indicates the decline of the fighter in question. Sometimes,...
True “pick-‘em” fights don’t come down the pike very often, but Saturday’s rematch between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury is about as close as it gets....
Logic in Boxing is an Oxymoron In 1996, David Tua KOed future world champion John Ruiz in 19 seconds with a left hook from hell. In...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – What people see, and hear, is not always what they get or expect. That is especially true of Theodore A. Atlas Jr.,...
This coming Oct. 30 is the 45th anniversary of the Ali-Foreman fight. Boxing has had its fair share of memorable fights across the decades, but few...
Lou Savarese could hardly contain himself. There he was, just four years after his last professional boxing match, a Bronx-born, boxing behemoth bursting into the room...
“Smokin’” Bert Cooper, the Joe Frazier lookalike who patterned his own boxing style after that of his idol, mentor and former manager, was 53 when he...
Teddy Atlas was so very young, just 19, when his mentor, Cus D’Amato, recognized his special gift for comprehending the many nuances of the sport they...