Best I Faced: Ruben Olivares
Editor's Note: This feature originally appeared in the December 2017 issue of The Ring Magazine. Ruben Olivares is remembered fondly as one...
read moreFormer WBC 122-pound titleholder Kazuo ‘Royal’ Kobayashi dead at 71
Former 122-pound titleholder Kazuo “Royal” Kobayashi was pronounced dead on November 17 at a hospital in Kumamoto, Japan, however, his...
read moreAaron Pryor-Alexis Arguello 1 was the top fight of the 1980s, and one of the best ever
They are both gone now, perhaps too soon given their chronological ages at the time of their earthly departures. But...
read moreDougie’s Monday Mailbag (best potential matchups, ‘disciplined’ Duran and Toney, Valero vs. Floyd)
MUST-SEE TV Hey Dougie, When I first began to follow boxing in the fall of 1995, I bought an issue of KO...
read moreDougie’s Monday Mailbag (Come-backing hall of famers, 15 rounds, Jorge Castro)
STAY RETIRED! Gday Dougie, How are you and your family doing in this crazy 2020 we are having mate? All safe and...
read moreJim Watt: The Greatest Hits
Losing to Ken Buchanan was a turning point in the career of Jim Watt. The two Scottish lightweights locked horns for...
read moreRay Mancini-Arturo Frias: A fan remembers
Thirty-eight years ago today, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini not only won the WBA lightweight title from Arturo Frias, he also...
read moreBest I Faced: Cornelius Boza-Edwards
Skilled boxer-puncher Cornelius Boza-Edwards was a mainstay in the junior lightweight and lightweight divisions during the late-1970s into the mid-1980s,...
read moreDougie’s Friday mailbag (the greatness of Chocolatito, what’s next for Mikey?)
HOW GREAT IS CHOCOLATITO? Hey Dougie, What a performance by Mr. Pound for Pound, Roman Gonzalez is all that this term embodies....
read more1960’s Boxing Trivia from Ring Magazine
Early in the 1960s, Sonny Liston took the heavyweight championship from Floyd Patterson and looked set for a very long...
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