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Joe Louis in many ways was as much of a pioneer, if not more so than Jackie Robinson. Consider the time frame. While Joe Louis was not the first African-American heavyweight champion, he was the ...
Leo Randolph By Shawn M. Murphy Recently I interviewed 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist and former World Super Bantamweight Champ Leo Randolph. Randolph had a ...
Female Boxers in America Still Fight For Respect By: Ron Scarfone The photo for this article was originally published by Bain News Service at least a century ago. It depicts the Bennett Sisters ...
By Guy Louis Rocha and Eric N. Moody The Heavyweight Championship Fight That Time Forgot The main problem confronting Egan and Livingston was how to get ...
In the country of Spain besides boxing, bull fighting and soccer there is a sport called Rock-Lifting. Jose Manuel “El Tigre de Cestona” Urtain not only won the EBU Heavyweight Champion but ...
By: William Holmes The first boxing match to ever be held at the legendary Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City was on July 26, 1929. During boxing’s golden ...
These are strange assertions to make because in a way, Holyfield is biting the hand that fed him. After all, he rose to prominence during an era where the universe of pay-per-view expanded greatly ...
On the first Saturday of May, boxing’s top thoroughbred, global superstar and Filipino Congressman, Manny Pacquiao, won a resounding 12-round decision over Shane Mosley to retain his WBO ...
If that had been the case, there would be no asterisk after Marvin Hart’s name in the record book. Reno, as well, could indisputably claim its first title fight. What actually happened makes for ...
It was 1990. Mike Tyson had just been stunned by Buster Douglas a mere month earlier, and Chavez was currently considered the best fighter on the planet. Sixty-eight wins, some of them against top ...
The reasons, I expect, are for the most part economic – low rent areas, accessible to the lower economic groups that fill the ranks of the boxing fraternity.
Pacquiao himself has a point when he asserts that the commercial has less to do with drinking alcohol than it does with the kind of inspiration one needs to become truly successful in one’s ...