International Stories
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All International Stories
One has to go back to the summer of 1938 for the last time a fighter succeeded i [...]
 


Born Edward Patrick Walker on July 13, 1901, in Elizabeth , New Jersey &hell [...]
 
It is through Henry Armstrong that this department traces its affinity with the [...]
 
He helped his father to cut sugar cane, swinging the sickle-like bolo knife like [...]
 
He was short and his body moved slowly among us as if it had been abused by hard [...]
 
Some say he was the fifth heavyweight champion of the world.  While others [...]
 
 The pitiful case of Benny Paret moves each according to his nature. The ha [...]
 
RING: Do you like the feeling of being a world champion – the only in boxi [...]
 
As fights go, it was not one of the great ones. But the “Battle of the cha [...]
 
The eyes of the boxing world focused on history being made in Havana, Cuba, on F [...]
 
It is through Henry Armstrong that this department traces its affinity with the [...]
 
November, 1980 – This is the first opportunity for comment on the ending o [...]
 
   On August 19, 1926, one of the roughest, toughest brawls ever fough [...]
 
Jake Lamotta. His name evokes memories of a fighter who had no passing familiari [...]
 
Few fights in ring history have matched the Duran-Leonard fight in excitement an [...]
 
Jack Johnson – Together with his new bide Lucille and his nephew, Gus Rhod [...]
 
Few fighters in the history of modern boxing have earned a reputation that could [...]
 
It is a known fact that most athletes do not retire while they are still able to [...]
 
In boxing, certain names are remembered long after others have been forgotten. T [...]
 
 There are twosomes throughout history that go together like salt and peppe [...]
 
Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end. We regarded J [...]
 
Throughout the ages, old men have been lionized in everything from literature (T [...]
 
The hotel room was hot, almost 80 degrees. Thomas Hearns likes it hot. His lean, [...]
 
 The day Little Red had his featehers ruffled.
Mention the name of former [...]
 
  
I have always thought that when a man gets married he should surro [...]
 
"The monster is loose," the television commentator warns the watching [...]
 
The man walked in and the 100 sportwriters applauded politely. Some, this writer [...]
 
BATTLING SIKI:
When Battling Siki defeated heavily favoured George Carpentier t [...]
 
The year was 1938. Europe was throbbing to the sound of goose-stepping boots and [...]
 
 When Howard Davis Jr. failed to grab Jim Watt’s WBC lightweight cham [...]
 
When Dempsey took Gibbons, he also took Shelby, Montana boxing’s first sti [...]
 
A battered, bleeding Jess Willard had just lost the heavyweight boxing champions [...]
 
 Robinson-Turnpin II
In slightly more than six months in 1951 Sugar Ray Ro [...]
 
Slender and dignified and urbane. Ray Arcel looks more like a retired diplomat t [...]
 
(This was written after Rocky Graziano stirred up a bobbery in fight circles by [...]
 
He came to us suddenly on August 21, 1981, when he stepped into the ring at Caes [...]
 
“But respect was something little Salvador Sanchez never got from other ki [...]
 
The fighter who dethrones a Pugliant Hero has a hard struggle to win popular acc [...]
 
September 15, Tuesday afternoon: The flight is out of Newark Airport in New Jers [...]
 
A fighter, a referee & a manager elected to the Boxing Hall of Fame. The Rin [...]
 
Thirty-five years after his seconds threw in the towel, Max Schmeling climbed ba [...]
 
- Or Why Does Every Boxer Feel Compelled To Answer The Bell Like A Firehorse Ret [...]
 
The little guy with the bouncy walk approached the ball on the 18th green, measu [...]
 
The sun bounces off ripples on the lapping water against the 23-foot open fishin [...]
 
It has been nearly forty years since former heavyweight contender Buddy Baer sen [...]
 
Some weeks ago Sandy Saddler who is not famous primarily as a teacher of boxing, [...]
 
There is a handsome book almost thirty years old now called The American Sportin [...]
 
Every year Harry Wills would quit eating. Everybody does, of course, sooner or l [...]
 
When Thomas E.Dewey made his first attempt to rent a hall bedroom in the White H [...]
 
I have trained fighters for many years and I am fortunate to have had a couple o [...]
 
"…Lyle all over. Lyle has Foreman in trouble. Foreman is down. It st [...]
 
The champs vote Muhammad Ali ‘The champs of the champs’  & [...]
 
It’s the end now, Victor Galindez, and this time you won’t come back [...]
 
The Anticipation
It is only a few days before the most anticipated heavyweight [...]
 
Boza- Edwards-Limon WBC Junior Welterweight Title
Fight of the month- May 1981
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The Leonard-Duran Fight: One of the boxing’s most confounding moments expl [...]
 
A Big Marshmallow: Buster Mathis November 17th, 1971- Buster Mathis is as big as [...]
PAUL Newman the famous Hollywood actor who played the role of former world middl [...]