During the 1950s when boxing was all over the TV dial, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer sponsored a series of Wednesday Night fights. What goes around, comes...
Nestled in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, Steve Springer, a former sportswriter who for nearly 35 years covered several sports including the world of boxing, is at...
The Afro American was in Johnny Paycheck’s dressing room only minutes after his devastating knockout loss to Joe Louis in the second round of their March 1940...
When Eric Greene took his seat at a ringside table at Sony Hall on April 27, fans in attendance could have been forgiven for thinking that...
There are very few boxing personalities who turn heads when they walk down the street or stop a room when they enter. I can think of...
Brin-Jonathan Butler Reflects on Cuban Boxers, Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr and More In the truest sense of the word multimedia, Brin-Jonathan Butler more than holds...
He probably never should have lasted as long as he did. After famed boxing referee Mills Bee Lane III suffered a debilitating stroke in March 2002,...
Mike Tyson’s reign of terror in the heavyweight division began on March 6, 1985 at the Plaza Convention Center in Albany, New York, when he flattened...
The June 28, 1991 fight card in the outdoor arena at the Mirage in Las Vegas was a star-studded event. There were dozens of celebrities in...
Earnie Shavers, Gone at 78, Was The Bambino of Boxing’s Biggest Boppers The technology of sports today, most of them anyway, has become so advanced that...