Died on this day: Gabriel ‘Flash’ Elorde
He was a tough, non-stop southpaw fighting machine, and quite possibly the greatest Filipino fighters of all time not named...
read moreBorn 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 moreTo Be The Best: The top 100 boxers in the history of The Ring Rankings (100-91)
James Toney, Wilfred Benitez, Joe Calzaghe, Carmen Basilio and Mike McCallum are among the hall of famers ranked from 100 to 91 in these very special all-time ratings.
read moreSandy Saddler-Willie Pep 4: The foul-filled final chapter 70 years later
Imagine, if you can, Russian ballet great Rudolf Nureyev dancing Swan Lake while wearing snowshoes … Michelangelo doing his best to...
read moreDougie’s Friday mailbag (Carl Thompson, Four Kings, Pacquiao-Garcia)
BETTER VS. GREATER Afternoon Dougie, Glad to see that you are doing well and keeping up with the handwashing. Hope that things...
read more1950’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...
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 moreTHE RING archive: Leonard-Hearns – Who picked who in “The Showdown”
THE RING Fight Picks go way back. Esteemed colleague, RING ratings panelist and fight pick collector, Anson Wainwright, was probably...
read moreFROM THE ARCHIVE: Who’s who II
The back of this photo reads, “The Boxing Legends at Fight Night ’94.” Every boxer in the photo — with the exception of George Chuvalo — is in the International Boxing Hall of Fame…
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