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...
She laughs about it now, but back then it wasn’t all that funny. Boxing champion Holly Holm was competing in her first professional MMA fight, and...
Britain’s Martin Murray has fought the very best and has now closed out a heartbreaking if not admirable and old school career. Others are just beginning...
At the Moment Boxing is Dormant, but There Will Be Fireworks Aplenty in February The month of January has been quiet on the boxing front and...
Prizefighting actually dipped underground for the past nine months with professional boxers training illegally in darkened gyms behind shuttered windows and locked doors. It still remains...
This coming Sunday, Jan. 17, marks the 100th anniversary of the pro debut of one of boxing’s most interesting characters. On this date in 1921, Young...
Word arrived yesterday, Jan. 12, that boxing promoter Mike Acri died this past Sunday at age 63. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. Acri was...
The Oct. 3 bout at the MGM Grand “Bubble” between Jose Zepeda and Ivan Baranchyk was a rip-snorter, a runaway choice for the 2020 Fight of...
Goodbye To All Of That: A Review of Mike Silver’s ‘The Night the Referee Hit Back’ Mike Silver has been writing about boxing since the 1970s,...
Avila Perspective, Chap. 120: Boxing’s Best Pound for Pound When Saul “Canelo” Alvarez first stepped into a prize ring in the USA in 2008 it never...