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Was Jack Dempsey Really One Of The Greatest Heavyweight Champions In History? (Part 1)
Was the legendary “Manassa Mauler” Jack Dempsey really one of the greatest heavyweights of all time?
Revolutionary theorists (the majority of whom are made up...
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS: A Brief Perspective on Emanuel Steward 1944 – 2012
Following the tragic death of Emanuel Steward yesterday, we bring you once again Jessica Sinyard's highly acclaimed article on Steward from 2011.
The name Emanuel Steward...
A Look Back at ‘The Galveston Giant’ – Jack Johnson, first black heavyweight champion
The first African-American World heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson dared to crash through the color barrier that saw to the creation of two classes of...
The Unparalleled Career of Henry Armstrong
By Mike Plunkett
At a time when boxing only had eight weight classes Henry Armstrong simultaneously held world titles at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight division....
A Look Back at the Mysterious Career and Life of Sonny Liston
By Mike Plunkett
History shows us that few former World heavyweight champions have been so feared as was a prime Sonny Liston.
The prototype for...
Bob Foster – Light Heavyweight for the Ages
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...
One Up on Fate – A Look Back at Matthew Saad Muhammad
In a blood sport that is filled with tales of desperate men who rose from humble and often troubled beginnings to become celebrated world...
Why the Edwin Valero murder-suicide case is the single most disturbing incident in the...
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...