As he sat on his stool awaiting the eighth round on January 13, 1948, at the Cleveland Arena, Ezzard Charles took in the words. Across from him, in the other corner, was Archie Moore, a […]
More than thirty years have passed since the last heyday of the jiggly heavyweight. In the 1980s, when boxing mirrored the “Greed is Good” era with dollar bills wafting in the air like shredded junk […]
Interview with Andre Rozier by Paul Zanon. See more Hannibal Boxing interviews >> *** Born and raised in Brooklyn, Andre Rozier has quite an impressive résumé of fighters who have trained under his expert tutelage. However, […]
Order was restored two minutes into the first round; a vehicle of chaos was responsible. There isn’t a fighter alive who can take Deontay Wilder’s Sunday punch, and his Saturday evening shot is hardly less […]
Not long ago, the heavyweight division, for years the madman in the attic of boxing, had a chance to shuck off its straitjacket and bring some normalcy back to a loony class brimming with healthy […]
Frankie Carbo is one of the central figures in Jacobs Beach: The Mob, The Garden & The Golden Age of Boxing, by Kevin Mitchell, from Hamilcar Publications. *** Among the many criminal charges Frankie Carbo […]
In boxing, not all wins and losses are equal. Julian “J-Rock” Williams knows this. That losses vary—in bitterness, in consequence, and duration—was something Williams learned on December 10, 2016. He got his long-coveted crack at […]
Since the turn of the century, the heavyweight division has often been as appealing as ringworm. And “Buster” Douglas is to blame. When sport’s most iconic underdog punched Mike Tyson into an alternate universe nearly […]
This is the fourth installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** “Dyn-o-mite!” —J. J. Evans September 28, 1979 “Holy Christ, I was down and struggling to […]
Interview with Abel Sanchez by Paul Zanon. See more Hannibal Boxing interviews >> *** Note: This interview took place before Sanchez and Gennady Golovkin split. Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin (“GGG”) is the fighter we tend to […]
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