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The real heavyweight championship of the world and its history – Part 1

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27
Feb

The real heavyweight championship of the world and its history – Part 1

Author and boxing historian Lee Groves traces the most famous prize in sport from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.

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10
Oct

Dougie’s Monday mailbag

Dougie shares his thoughts on Aaron Pryor, Oscar Valdez, fights and fighters to watch in October and readers’ random musings in today’s mailbag.

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09
Feb

Bill Caplan’s 20 greatest heavyweights

Veteran PR ace Bill Caplan, a man who has been a boxing insider for more than five decades, gives RingTV.com his choice for the 20 best heavyweights of all time.

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26
Jul

Dougie’s Monday mailbag

Fight fans from around the world shared their thoughts on Sergey Kovalev, the Pascal-Gonzalez fight and controversial decision, Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux, and much more in this week’s Monday mailbag.

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04
Apr

Jess Willard-Jack Johnson: 100 years later

Today, April 5, 2015, marks the 100th anniversary of the world heavyweight title bout between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard. With an incredible run-up to the bout between two incredible personalities, our resident historian, Lee Groves looks back.

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05
Oct

Ali’s greatest fight airs Saturday

Muhammad Ali’s troubles as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War are broached in the HBO Films’ presentation of Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, which airs tonight on HBO.

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23
Oct

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Big boy

We marvel at the size of giants Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, who are listed at 6-foot-7 (201cm) and 6-6 (198cm), respectively. Imagine what folks thought of Jess Willard…

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06
Sep

FROM THE ARCHIVE

RingTV.com’s ongoing feature — FROM THE ARCHIVE — in which we pull rare and unusual photos from the magazine’s vast collection and post them on the Web site.

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28
Dec

100 years since Jack Johnson made history

Jack Johnson made history by stopping Tommy Burns to win the heavyweight championship in 1908. Photo / THE RINGThis is...

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