The fictional Rocky Balboa lost a split decision to Apollo Creed in the first installment of the fecund “Rocky” series. Thirty-five years later in Warren, Ohio,...
BOOK REVIEW by THOMAS HAUSER — George Dixon was boxing’s first Black world champion. “For a decade leading into the twentieth century,” Jason Winders writes, “few...
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...
Jacob “Stitch” Duran is the most famous cutman in the world. But this past November, when he was working the first of the four Triller shows...
On Aug. 17, 1960, the first of five planeloads of U.S. Olympians arrived in Rome. The boxers came with the first wave because boxing would be...
William Gildea covered many sporting events during his 50-plus years with the Washington Post – his assignments took him around the world – but Gildea, who...
Odds and Ends: Studio Fights, Mayweather Gym notes, Adrien Broner and More Back in the day when folks watched boxing on little black-and-white TVs and boxing...
Tom Molineaux and the Mule Faced Boy: Deconstructing Slave Fight Folklore February is black history month in the United States and Canada, a tradition that dates...
The late Nat Fleischer, the co-founder and publisher of The Ring magazine, the self-proclaimed Bible of Boxing, was regarded in his day as the world’s foremost...
Former featherweight and lightweight champion Frank Erne was back in the news last week with the announcement that he is entering the International Boxing Hall of...