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On June 9, 1978, the boxing world witnessed one of the greatest heavyweight title fights in history as Larry Holmes challenged Ken Norton for the WBC Heavyweight Championship at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. What transpired over fifteen brutal rounds was a masterclass in heart, skill, and resilience—etched forever in boxing lore as one of the sport’s most thrilling championship battles. The bout came at a time of transition in ...
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John Raspanti
05/29/2025
Remembering Bob Foster – his left hook was wicked
Bob Foster was born with a lethal left hook.   I was thinking about that hook ...
Mike Goodpaster
05/28/2025
Bob Satterfield: The Forgotten Thunder of the Heavyweight Division
Bob Satterfield was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but his boxing identity would come to be ...
Mike Goodpaster
05/26/2025
Kiko Bejines: A Promising Bantamweight’s Journey to a Fatal Title Fight
Francisco "Kiko" Bejines was a promising Mexican ...
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05/20/2025
Tony Sibson: The Leicester Lionheart
Tony Sibson stands as one of the ...
Mike Goodpaster
05/15/2025
Carlos Zarate: A Force of Nature
In the annals of Mexican boxing, a ...
Mike Goodpaster
05/13/2025
A Force of Nature: Pipino Cuevas Mexico’s Explosive Champion
José “Pipino” Cuevas was born on December ...
Mike Goodpaster
05/12/2025
Empire of Illusion: Pat O’Grady, the WAA, and Boxing’s Forgotten Sanctioning Body
The World Athletic Association (WAA) was a ...
Chris LaForce
05/09/2025
Pugnis Infra Lineam: The Lowdown on Low Blows in Boxing
The impending rematch and heavyweight unification fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois (scheduled for July ...
Mike Goodpaster
05/07/2025
Mike Rossman: The Jewish Bomber’s Journey To Boxing Glory
Mike Rossman, known in the ring as ...
Mike Goodpaster
05/06/2025
The Rise, Reign, and Resolve of Lupe Pintor
Guadalupe "Lupe" Pintor, born in 1955 in ...
Mike Goodpaster
05/02/2025
Cornelius Boza-Edwards: The Ugandan Warrior
Cornelius Boza-Edwards, born Cornelius Bbosa on May ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/29/2025
Duane Bobick: The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a Heavyweight Hopeful
Duane Bobick’s story is one of promise, ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/24/2025
Beyond the Gloves: The Journey of Kallie Knoetze
Before turning professional, Knoetze had a notable ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/23/2025
Oscar Bonavena: The Colorful Life, Storied Career, and Tragic End of Argentina’s Wildest Heavyweight
Oscar "Ringo" Bonavena was more than just ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/22/2025
Three Crowns and a Warrior’s Heart: The Marvin Johnson Story
In the annals of boxing history, few ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/21/2025
Fantasy Fight: Roberto Durán vs. Tony Ayala Jr. — Who Wins and Why?
In the annals of boxing history, few ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/19/2025
Gerry Cooney: The Gentle Giant of the 1980s
Gerard "Gerry" Cooney was born in 1956, ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/18/2025
Tom McNeeley: A Fighter in His Father’s Shadow and His Own Spotlight
Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, Thomas William McNeeley ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/17/2025
Michael Dokes: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Heavyweight Champion
Michael Dokes was born in Akron, Ohio, ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/16/2025
From Montevideo to the World Stage: The Boxing Journey of Alfredo Evangelista
Alfredo Evangelista is a former heavyweight boxer ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/15/2025
Alan Minter: Southpaw Grit and British Glory in the Golden Age of Boxing
In the pantheon of British boxing greats, ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/14/2025
George Chuvalo: A Heavyweight’s Triumphs and Tragedies
George Chuvalo’s life story reads like a ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/12/2025
Ron Lyle: The Relentless Rise of a Forgotten Heavyweight Warrior
In the golden age of heavyweight boxing—an ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/10/2025
Gerrie Coetzee: The Bionic Boxer Who Defied the Odds
Early Life and Background Gerrie Coetzee, born ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/09/2025
Nick Wells: The Man Who Knocked Out Larry Holmes Twice
​Nick Wells was born on February 11, ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/08/2025
Why Tony Ayala Jr. Was Overrated: A Closer Look at the Myth and the Reality
Tony Ayala Jr. is often remembered as ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/04/2025
The Mythical Boxing Showdown: George Foreman vs. Lennox Lewis
In the world of mythical boxing matchups, ...
John Raspanti
03/10/2025
March 22, 1967 – Muhammad Ali vs. underdog Zora Folley – a better fight than many expected
Muhammad Ali's jab was long and sharp. ...
The Boxing Mad Man
02/28/2025
The Floating Butterfly, The Stinging Bee: Assessing Muhammad Ali’s Claim to Heavyweight Supremacy
The pantheon of heavyweight boxing is populated ...
Mike Goodpaster
02/12/2025
Top 10 Mexican Boxers of All Time: Who is the Greatest of them All?
Current boxers are not eligible for this ...
John Raspanti
01/17/2025
Dad, Muhammad Ali, and the month of January
Smokin Joe, Big George, and The Greatest. ...
Mike Goodpaster
01/04/2025
Top 10 Most Controversial Fights in Boxing History
Has any sport ever had more controversial ...
Mike Goodpaster
01/02/2025
Top 10 Dirtiest Boxers of All Time
Dirty boxing was more prevalent in the ...
Mike Goodpaster
01/01/2025
Top-11 Cruiserweights in Boxing History: Usyk or Holyfield at No.1?
The Greatest Cruiserweight was unquestioned until a ...
Mike Goodpaster
12/23/2024
Top 10 Most Grossly underrated Boxers of all time
These are always the toughest lists to ...
John Raspanti
12/15/2024
Somebody Up There Likes Me might not feel like a holiday movie, but it’s inspirational
In 1956, Hollywood made a movie on ...
Mike Goodpaster
12/11/2024
Top 17 Latino Boxers of All Time
Ranking the top Latino boxers of all ...
Mike Goodpaster
11/27/2024
Top 10 Come from Behind wins in Boxing history!
The men on this list snatched victory ...
Mike Goodpaster
11/26/2024
Top 14 Body Punchers in Boxing History
Everybody loves a knockout, but to be ...
Mike Goodpaster
11/20/2024
Top 10 Pound for Pound Boxers of the 1980s: Who is the best Leonard, Hagler, Duran?
The 1980s were a great decade for ...
Mike Goodpaster
11/19/2024
Top10 Worst Heavyweight Title Challengers from 1970-1990
I am not going to lie here, ...
Mike Goodpaster
11/13/2024
Joe Frazier vs Jerry Quarry I: They Don’t make Fighters like this anymore!
On June 23, 1969 - more than ...
Mike Goodpaster
11/12/2024
Top 10 First Round Knockouts in Boxing History
First-round knockouts can lead to disappointment for ...
Mike Goodpaster
11/07/2024
Top 14 Greatest Knockouts in Boxing History
Boxing is an art that requires immense ...
Mike Goodpaster
10/31/2024
Top 12 Greatest Punchers in Heavyweight History
This list includes all heavyweights, including active ...
Mike Goodpaster
09/18/2024
Top-18 Middleweights in Boxing History: Where does GGG rank?
The Middleweight division has a ton of ...
Mike Goodpaster
09/06/2024
Top 20 Welterweights in Boxing History: Where does Terence Crawford Rank?
The Welterweight division has long been a ...
Mike Goodpaster
08/24/2024
Scott LeDoux: The Fighting Frenchman and his shot at the title
Until the lead-up to his challenge of ...
Chris Benedict
08/23/2024
Hagler vs. Leonard Revisited: Sometimes it’s not so marvelous being Marvin
“Soul radiation in the dead of night. ...
Buddy Gibbs
08/22/2024
Carmen Basilio vs. Ray Robinson II and Harry Wiley, the Man who Made Sugar Sweeter
Carmen Basilio won the world middleweight title ...
John Raspanti
08/21/2024
The Truth: Heavyweight contender Carl Williams
The Truth. Carl Williams was a good ...
John Raspanti
08/15/2024
Robert Fitzsimmons Underrated three division world champion
He hardly resembled a future heavyweight champion, ...
Mike Goodpaster
08/14/2024
Holmes/Cooney Revisited: The Lowest Common Denominator
The most significant heavyweight championship fight since ...
John Raspanti
08/08/2024
Truck, Tillio and Barney were no challenge for Joe Louis
Joe Louis was one of the greatest ...
Mike Goodpaster
08/05/2024
Top 9 Fight Cards in Boxing history
I keep hearing how this past Saturday ...
John Raspanti
08/01/2024
My dad spoke of the fight often -Joe Louis versus Rocky Marciano October 26, 1951
My dad spoke of the fight often. ...
Mike Goodpaster
07/30/2024
Top 9 Biggest Wastes of Talent in Boxing since 1975
Like all other sports, Boxing has a ...
John Raspanti
07/18/2024
Gentleman Jim conquers the great John L
The conqueror of the "Great John L" ...
Mike Goodpaster
07/16/2024
Top 10 Worst Judges Decisions in Boxing History
Let's be serious. Just list could be ...
Mike Goodpaster
07/08/2024
Top-10 Heavyweight Boxers of the 1990s
The 1990s was an underrated decade for ...
Mike Goodpaster
07/07/2024
Top 10 Boxers of the 1990s: Was Roy Jones Jr. the best?
The 1990s was a decade that doesn't ...
John Raspanti
07/06/2024
The Great John L
"I can whip any son of a ...
Buddy Gibbs
07/01/2024
The Undeserved Pardon of Jack Johnson
On May 24th of, 2018, President Trump ...
Mike Goodpaster
06/30/2024
Remembering the Tragic Death of Willie Classen
In some ways, Willie Classen was typical ...
Mike Goodpaster
06/28/2024
The 16 Greatest Upsets in Heavyweight Boxing History
Today I want to compare and rate ...
Mike Goodpaster
06/27/2024
The Nine Most underrated Heavyweight Boxers of All-Time
I love making these lists. I grew ...
John Raspanti
06/24/2024
Gervonta Davis and Vasyl Lomachenko to fight in November?
Frank Martin looked like a million bucks ...
Mike Goodpaster
06/21/2024
Comparing Muhammad Ali to Mike Tyson: Why the comparison is stupid
I keep seeing all of these younger ...
Mike Goodpaster
06/20/2024
Top 19 Heavyweights of all time
Everybody has differing opinions on almost everything ...
Jeremiah Preisser
06/17/2024
Eusebio Pedroza: Duran’s Panamanian counterpart in pugilistic dominance
Panama, birthplace of Roberto “Manos de Piedra” ...
Mike Goodpaster
06/12/2024
Top 10 Pound for Pound Boxers of all time
At Lightweight, he was an all time ...
Mike Goodpaster
06/08/2024
Does Floyd Mayweather Have a Case as The Greatest of All-Time?
Floyd Mayweather was one of the best ...
Mike Goodpaster
06/05/2024
Top 10 Greatest Defensive Boxers of All-Time!
It's all about hitting and not getting ...
Mike Goodpaster
05/28/2024
Top 20 Greatest Boxing Matches of the 1990s
The 1990s was a great decade for ...
Mike Goodpaster
05/08/2024
Top 10 Most Controversial Boxers of all time
Boxing is the home of controversy. It ...
Mike Goodpaster
04/11/2024
The Truth About Rocky Marciano
A lot has been said on social ...
John Raspanti
03/31/2024
Ken Norton shocks Muhammad Ali – March 31, 1973
Since losing to Joe Frazier in "The ...
Chris LaForce
03/27/2024
Ursa Major or Minor: Was it Jeffries or Liston? 
James Jackson Jeffries and Charles L. “Sonny” ...
Christopher Shelton
03/17/2024
Esteban de Jesus, Roberto Duran y AIDS (1972-89)
Many of us dream of celebrity sports ...
Jeremiah Preisser
03/09/2024
Part Five: The Greatest Defensive Fighters Ever – Pernell Whitaker
“At any given moment he switches rhythm, ...
Chris Benedict
03/03/2024
Marvin Hagler and the Curious Case of Sneaky Pea and Caveman Lee
Back to the Stone Ages He was ...
Chris Benedict
03/03/2024
Revenge of the Barbados Demon: Joe Walcott Unravels the Infernal Riddle of  Mysterious Billy Smith 
One of the fight game’s greatest and ...
Jeremiah Preisser
03/02/2024
Ezzard Charles and Harry Greb: A light-heavyweight perspective
It’s not often that the well-rounded “Cincinnati ...
Mike Goodpaster
02/29/2024
A Look back at Holyfield vs. Foreman: A Magnificent night for Boxing
George Foreman was a former Heavyweight Champion ...
John Raspanti
02/26/2024
Respect: Jimmy Young was a damn good fighter
“When you go back to those days ...
Mike Goodpaster
02/17/2024
Alex Ramos: The epitome of a fighter
I have wanted to write an article ...
Mike Goodpaster
02/16/2024
The 10 Most Underrated Boxers in Boxing History
The fighters on this list were all ...
John Raspanti
01/30/2024
Jack Dempsey wants a rematch against Gene Tunney, but first he has to get past favored Jack Sharkey
1927. Jack Dempsey was no longer the ...
Chris Benedict
01/28/2024
Superman vs. Muhammad Ali: How the Heavyweight Champ and the Man of Steel Saved the World in 1978
Training The Mego toy corporation, arguably best ...
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01/27/2024
Nothing is Stronger Than a Triangle: The Unbreakable Bond Between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and the Petronelli Brothers 
His personal motto was “Destruct and Destroy.” ...
Mike Goodpaster
01/18/2024
Tommy Morrison and AIDS: The Truth about what happened, and how he Died.
Tommy Morrison burst onto the professional boxing ...
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01/16/2024
Top 10 Boxers that Retired with an unbeaten record: Mayweather or Marciano at Number One?
The list of unbeaten boxers is short; ...
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