Before there was Buster Douglas, there was Leon Spinks. One could argue, with some gravity, that Douglas’s “Upset of the Century” over Mike Tyson was largely...
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Get set for the biggest heavyweight championship tournament the sport has ever seen. It is going to be held on SiriusXM Radio and will include everybody—and...
Dr. Wilbert “Skeeter’’ McClure fell in love at 13 and his heart stayed true to that first love until August 7, 2020, the day he passed...
If you have made your way into the famed and fabled Gleason's Gym, in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY, the most well-known boxing gym on the planet, your...
Longtime radio and television host Joe Franklin, best known as “Mr. Nostalgia,” was as much of a New York treasure as an egg cream or a...
It's turn back the clock time Saturday, as ESPN will be featuring A grade prizefights, featuring top tier pugilists plying their trade. With coronavirus making it's...
I was back and forth with George Foreman during fight week, and right after the fight, and the week after Tyson Fury beat Deontay Wilder, and...
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“If” is such a wistful word. The most wishful two letter word of all-time conquered by a man more than once. If I could write...
Madison Square Garden is iconic for a variety of reasons, but none more so stand out as much as the relationship it has with massive...
Former heavyweight champ and current contender Tyson Fury would probably fare well if he could go back in time and fight some of the greatest...
There are few modern lives that have been covered with the width and breadth of Muhammad Ali’s. The number of books, movies, and documentaries detailing...
HBO debuts a new Muhammad Ali documentary, called What’s My Name, on May 14, 2019.
UPDATE: Darren Prince reports the Q n A with Micky Ward went quite well. “He shared stories about Dicky and gave a great comparison, that I’m...
There is heavyweight boxing, and there is everything else, a distant second. OK, Team Canelo would perhaps today beg to differ, being that the Mexican (super)...
Muhammad Ali died two years ago yesterday. This still seems impossible to me. When he passed, I remember thinking 2016 had been something of a serial...
COMPUBOX INC. PUBLISHES FIRST BOOK “MUHAMMAD ALI: BY THE NUMBERS” CompuBox, Inc. has published its first book, “Muhammad Ali: By the Numbers,” a 360-page paperback which...
The circle grows smaller, as is inevitable, and we who revere the legend of the one, the only, the Greatest, must cling tighter to memories, as...
They will still be doing books on the man, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred years from now. And it is understandable and proper; because Muhammad Ali...
The “he oughta retire” column is one that is seen within the realm of other sports, yes, but more often in boxing, for a simple reason....
