January 2: This Day in Boxing History – Title Changes and Defining Fights January 2 has hosted significant bouts across eras , from world title changes...
Rocky Graziano and the Making of a Middleweight Legend On January 1, 1919, Thomas Rocco Barbella was born in Brooklyn, New York, a child whose early...
December 25: This Day in Boxing History – Sugar Ray Robinson’s Christmas Day Fight Christmas Day is rarely associated with prizefighting in the modern era, but...
December 20: This Day in Boxing History — Championship Wins and Defining Moments December 20 has featured several significant fights in boxing history, spanning title breakthroughs and...
December 9 has been a stage where champions rise, legacies are sharpened, and controversy sometimes steals the spotlight. Across decades, the day has showcased gritty title...
Book Review by Thomas Hauser — In his formative years as a writer, Randy Roberts wrote excellent biographies of Jack Dempsey and Jack Johnson. More recently,...
Ricky Hatton’s TKO of Kostya Tszyu in 2005 invited comparison to Randy Turpin’s upset of Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951. The latter is widely considered the...
The newest book by the late Thomas Gerbasi, “Boxing: The 100 Greatest Fighters,” is a coffee table book that isn’t a coffee table book. Coffee table...
Seventy-five years ago this month, on Sept. 13, 1950, Jake LaMotta successfully defended his world middleweight title with a 15th-round stoppage of Laurent Dauthuille at Detroit’s...
On July 7, 1952, a crowd of 39,025 turned out at Philadelphia’s Municipal Stadium to witness Kid Gavilan defend his world welterweight title against Gil Turner....