Beating Shane Mosley – Twice! – Not the defining standard of Vernon Forrest’s too-short life
For many boxers who sweat and bleed and toil to achieve something truly momentous in a sport that frequently can...
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Being around The Greatest, Muhammad Ali remembered
There is a widespread belief that the late, great Muhammad Ali, who would have turned 80 today had he not...
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From the Archive: Bernard Hopkins – Just Deserts
Editor's Note: This feature originally appeared in the April 2013 issue of The Ring. BERNARD HOPKINS ONCE WAS OVERSHADOWED BY OTHERS...
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Ivan Robinson’s rematch with Arturo Gatti showed that success sometimes can be a handicap
HBO Boxing received praise for its 12-episode Legendary Nights series in 2002, so much so that it put together several...
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Archie Moore-Yvon Durelle 1: An epic comeback from The Old Mongoose
He was billed as the “Fighting Fisherman,” and in the biggest fight of his life Yvon Durelle seemed to be...
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Evander Holyfield-Bert Cooper: The near-upset 30 years later
Many of boxing’s most memorable upsets, and even the near-misses, represent truth at two linked but sometimes distinctly different levels....
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Recut of Rocky IV could lead to Stallone fashioning a TV prequel of the franchise that can’t die
It was mid-2020, America and much of the rest of the world in the full grip of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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Evander Holyfield’s battering of Mike Tyson proved again there is nothing certain in boxing
Not that he could have known it then, but President Franklin D. Roosevelt might have been speaking of the state...
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Rocky Marciano beating Joe Louis a true case of passing the torch
In boxing, it is often said that to be The Man you have to beat The Man, but that is...
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Ray Mercer TKO 5 Tommy Morrison story doesn’t begin to tell the whole story of either
Thirty years ago, on Oct. 18, 1991, heavyweights “Merciless” Ray Mercer and Tommy “The Duke” Morrison squared off in an...
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