In professional boxing, fights can be rank-ordered as generic fights, big fights, bigger fights, mega-fights, and spectacles. The first fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier...
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...
Bob Arum called him the handsomest young boxer to come down the pike since Muhammad Ali. Arum was referencing Paddy Donovan. Of course, Arum didn’t rope...
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...
Leon Spinks, who forged one of the most memorable upsets in the history of boxing when he outpointed Muhammad Ali on Feb. 15, 1978, has passed...
BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT RANDY COOK — I never floated like a butterfly or stung like a bee, but I do have one thing in common with...
Don King promoted a fight card on January 29 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. But the more significant story is what happened...
Hank Aaron, one of the greatest players in baseball history, died today (January 22) at age 86. Aaron is best known for breaking Babe Ruth’s mark...
On February 25, 1964, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. defeated Charles “Sonny” Liston in Miami Beach over the course of six remarkable rounds to claim the heavyweight...