Born on this day: Willie Pep
One of the most elusive fighters of all time would have turned 100 years old today. Willie Pep was born Guglielmo...
read moreBorn on this day: Ike Williams
As a kid from a family in dire need, he sold newspapers in street corners to help make ends meet....
read moreOn this day: Sammy Angott defeats 62-0 Willie Pep
They don’t make them like this anymore. On March 19, 1943, former lightweight world champion Sammy Angott became the first man...
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 moreDougie’s Friday Mailbag (Tyson vs. Jones, Sammy Angott, El Alacron)
WHY IS TYSON THE FAVORITE? Hi Dougie, hope you are doing well. I just can't get my head around the fact that...
read more1940’s Boxing Trivia by Ring Magazine
Sugar Ray Robinson, takes the boxing world by storm, Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano produce a legendary middleweight trilogy, and...
read moreDougie’s Friday mailbag (Williams-Rosario, Boxer vs. MMA fighter hype, greatest records)
JULIAN WILLIAMS-JEISON ROSARIO Hi Doug, hope you are doing well. I was disappointed not to read any comments about the biggest fight...
read moreCommentary: Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s place among the modern greats
RingTV.com editor Doug Fischer shares his thoughts on compiling a list of the 20 greatest boxers since World War II for a story that appears in the October 2014 issue of THE RING and explains why Floyd Mayweather Jr., among other modern-era stars, did not make the cut.
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