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Quanti Pugili! The definitive list of all-time great Italian-heritage fighters

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05
Jun

Quanti Pugili! The definitive list of all-time great Italian-heritage fighters

The following article was originally published in the March 2024 issue of The Ring, available to subscribers here and via...

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16
Jun

Ring belts stolen from IBHOF in 2015 presumed lost after arrests are made

A decades-long series of thefts in a few Northeastern US states has been apparently solved. And that brings potential bad...

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21
Jul

Born on this day: Gene Fullmer

Not too many fighters can claim to have defeated the best fighter in the universe two times in four fights....

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11
Oct

Best I Faced: Tony DeMarco

Editor's Note: This feature originally appeared in the October 2018 issue of The Ring Magazine. 58-12-1 (33 KOs) Tony DeMarco’s reign as...

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25
Mar

Carmen Basilio-Sugar Ray Robinson 2: Warfare never to be seen again

A lot has happened in boxing over the past 63 years. Much change has been initiated. Where once there were...

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03
Dec

Fifty years after shocking Jose Napoles, Billy Backus accepts role as Carmen Basilio’s sidekick

Batman had Robin, the Lone Ranger had Tonto and Sherlock Holmes had Dr. Watson. All things considered, there are worse...

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15
Feb

1950’s Boxing Trivia from Ring Magazine

During the 1950s, Rocky Marciano seized the heavyweight throne and was never vanquished, Sugar Ray Robinson won the middleweight championship...

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11
Apr

Sugar Ray Robinson versus the Hall of Fame

On the 30th anniversary of Sugar Ray Robinson’s passing, Associate Editor Tom Gray looks back on showdowns the great pound-for-pound king had with fellow Hall of Famers.

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23
Feb

Police still awaiting results of DNA testing in case of stolen belts

The Canastota police chief describes the investigation into the six stolen belts belonging to Carmen Basilio and Tony Zale as ‘stagnant.’

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23
Feb

Mike Tyson offers reward for stolen championship belts

Mike Tyson has offered a reward for the six championship belts that were stolen from the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota in November.

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