It’s probably a safe bet that if you’re not a pretty strong boxing fan, the name Ingemar Johansson will escape you. He’s mostly forgotten today, but nearly 60 years ago he was more than a sports star.
Mike Tyson, of Brooklyn, New York, is a former heavyweight lineal champion known as "The Baddest Man on the Planet." Tyson, the youngest man to ever win a heavyweight title, retired in 2005, but has ...
Regis Prograis, of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a former WBC junior welterweight champion. He also held the WBA junior welterweight title in 2019 and the WBC interim junior welterweight title in 2018.
For much of his career, boxing great Muhammad Ali was convinced that his brain wouldn’t be affected by the thousands of powerful, crippling blows he received from his opponents, says the author of a ...
It's impossible to separate Joe Frazier from the most celebrated double-act in boxing history. All the same, in Mark Kram Jr.'s scrupulous "Smokin' Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier," the great Philly ...
Perhaps nobody embodies the famous boxing idiom coined by Muhammad Ali of “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” than Pernell Whitaker. Able to float across the canvas and evade punches with ...
Seniesa "Super Bad" Estrada, of Los Angeles, is a former undisputed strawweight world champion. In 2020, Estrada scored a seven-second KO of Miranda Adkins, a feat that still remains the quickest KO ...
HEADLINE = BETHLEHEM BOXER SEEKS COMEBACK IN A HURRY LEAD GRAFS SEVEN YEARS. THAT’S HOW LONG BOBBY JOHNSON HAD BEEN AWAY FROM THE BOXING RING. “I fought Howard Davis,” he said of his last professional ...
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