By Michael Plunkett
Looking back over the decades of the last century there have been a handful of special and in some cases spectacular champions in the light heavyweight division,
but few managed to cut the swath through its ranks the...
In a blood sport that is filled with tales of desperate men who rose from humble and often troubled beginnings to become celebrated world champions few can rival the history of Matthew Saad Muhammad.
By Michael Plunkett
Born Maxwell Antonio Loach...
On October 15th 1910, a farm hand named Walter Dipley murdered world middleweight champion Stanley Ketchel with a bullet from a .22 rifle.
The previous year Ketchel had given heavyweight champion Jack Johnson the fight of his life before being...