On this day: James Toney almost turns the lights out on Vassiliy Jirov
Never write off legends. On April 26, 2003, James Toney upset the odds to dethrone the previously unbeaten IBF cruiserweight titleholder...
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On this day: Evander Holyfield becomes the first undisputed cruiserweight champion
It was as if God had created the perfect cruiserweight. On April 9, 1988, unbeaten IBF and WBA titleholder Evander Holyfield...
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On this Day: Lennox Lewis robbed in New York, held to contentious draw with Evander Holyfield
The victim was 6-foot-5, 245 pounds, and the perpetrators didn’t even use a gun. On March 13, 1999, Lennox Lewis produced...
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On this day: Evander Holyfield stops Michael Dokes in classic war
Before “The Real Deal” duked it out with Riddick Bowe, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis, he first had to brave...
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To Be The Best: The top 100 boxers in the history of The Ring Rankings (20-11)
If you’re new to this on-going series, please read: The Introduction. (Seriously, if you’re posting questions like “What does the asterisk...
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Ring Ratings: a brief update and a flashback (to when the Real Deal and Finito ruled)
The New Year began with heavyweight action that didn’t result in any changes in The Ring’s glamor division rankings, and...
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Video: Tyson Fury remembers a century of heavyweight champions
Fifty-eight pounds in weight, five-and-a-half inches in height and 10 inches in reach. When the legendary Jack Dempsey blasted his way...
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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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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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Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder and the great glamour division trilogies
Spectacular action, controversy and the downright bizarre have been hallmarks of boxing history’s greatest heavyweight trilogies. Tyson Fury, The Ring Magazine...
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