On this day: Bob Foster destroys Dick Tiger to lift the light heavyweight title
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read moreTo Be The Best: The top 100 boxers in the history of The Ring Rankings (30-21)
If you’re new to this on-going series, please read: The Introduction. (Seriously, if you’re posting questions like “What does the asterisk...
read moreJoey Giardello’s win over old Sugar Ray did have historical implications
It was a fight not deemed important enough to be shown on television or even carried on radio. One fighter...
read moreMythical Matchup: Canelo Alvarez vs. Dick Tiger
This story appears in the December 2020 edition of The Ring Magazine. Click here to purchase the issue from the Ring Shop. World-class...
read moreGreatest Hits: Rubin “Hurricane” Carter – part 2
In Part 1 of Rubin Carter’s Greatest Hits, author Ron Lipton dug deep into his personal archive of interviews with...
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...
read moreLou Duva passes away
A true example of a self-made man in the sport of boxing, longtime trainer and manager Lou Duva passed away on Wednesday, at the age of 94.
read moreKell Brook ready to become a ‘serious legend’
Kell Brook predicts an upset of immense proportions when he meets unified middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin this Saturday in London.
read moreRemembering Gene Fullmer
On Tuesday, April 27, 2015, the boxing world lost a legend as two-time middleweight champion Gene “Cyclone” Fullmer passed away at his home in West Jordan, Utah.
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