Former 1970s heavyweight contender Ron Lyle, 43-7-1 (31), is remembered most for dropping former heavyweight champ George Foreman twice in a legendary fight in late January of 1976. Foreman, an all-time great and veteran of […]
Owney Madden, who “owned a large piece of Max Baer,” is one of the dark figures in Jacobs Beach: The Mob, The Garden & The Golden Age of Boxing, by Kevin Mitchell, from Hamilcar Publications. […]
“It doesn’t matter who I fight,” he announced in 1994, with an imperial air, “You could have a 900 number and take a poll. Let the people decide.” *** NEWSLETTER EXCLUSIVE! Our July issue of […]
“Poor Tommy Jackson, I wish there was some other way for him to make a living.” —Jimmy Cannon Only a cameo role in The Sweet Science, magnum opus of A.J. Liebling, now preserved in […]
One hundred years on, no one can say for sure what happened to the gloves. In December 1934, a decade and a half after they had done their wicked work, the gloves were buried beneath […]
This is the fifth installment in Carlos Acevedo’s Shoot The Moon series covering the career of Larry Holmes. *** February 3, 1980 Seems no one’s talking ‘bout those crazy days gone past, Weren’t they amazed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s been over thirty years since two of the most legendary fighters of the 1980s met in what had to be one of the most anticipated bouts since the first title bout between Joe Frazier […]
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