Roll With The Punches

10 LIST

This month: Winning THE RING Magazine Fighter of the Year award is a coveted and rare honor for boxers. Only 17 in the 89-year history of the award have won it more than once, and less than half of that number – a group comprising some of the greatest legends of the sport – have been recognized more than twice. Here are the 10 best boxers to have won more than one RING Fighter of the Year award. The boxers are ranked (by Editor-in-Chief Doug Fischer) by their accomplishments during the years they earned the honor (noted under each name).

Roll With The Punches

Degrees of separation between fighters of the past and their more contemporary counterparts. This month, in keeping with the theme...

Roll With The Punches

Degrees of separation between fighters of the past and their more contemporary counterparts. This month, regular contributor Gregg Morgan connected...

Roll With The Punches

Degrees of separation between fighters of the past and their more contemporary counterparts. This month, regular contributor Gregg Morgan recognized...

Roll With The Punches

Degrees of separation between fighters of the past and their more contemporary counterparts. This month, regular contributor Gregg Morgan linked the only two Americans to have won Olympic gold medals and light heavyweight world titles, Michael Spinks and Andre Ward. Spinks won the middleweight gold in 1976; Ward was the Olympic light heavyweight champion in 2004.

Roll With The Punches

Degrees of separation between fighters of the past and their more contemporary counterparts. This month, regular contributor Gregg Morgan linked...

A New Era

Much was made of the fist bumps and the winks and the private jokes and the big bro/little bro vibe...

Jabs and Straight Writes

BLINDED

The dialogue over racial prejudice in the United States has gotten uglier the past few months. Let me add an experience I had years ago to the discussion.

Reign Man

The sight was all too familiar. Wladimir Klitschko, considered the future of boxing’s glamour division at the time, lying flat on...

Jabs and Straight Writes

SPORTS ROYALTY

‘WHEN AMERICAN HEAVYWEIGHTS RULED THE RING’

For more than a century, the heavyweight champion of the world was sports royalty. But unlike many kings, whose authority is bestowed as an accident of birth, these men derived their authority first through conquest and then from the consent of the governed.