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On this day: Bob Foster destroys Dick Tiger to lift the light heavyweight title

24
May

On this day: Bob Foster destroys Dick Tiger to lift the light heavyweight title

The country of Biafra lived only long enough to generate a brutal war, a devastating famine, and the name of...

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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
Feb

To 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...

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27
Jun

Joey 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...

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21
Oct

Mythical 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...

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12
Sep

Greatest 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...

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15
Feb

1960’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...

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08
Mar

Lou 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.

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05
Sep

Kell 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.

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28
Apr

Remembering 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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