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This is one you watch through your fingers. On May 30, 1987, Mike Tyson successfully defended his WBA and WBC heavyweight...
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Tony Tucker holds the ignominious record of shortest heavyweight title reign at just 64 days. However, he still enjoyed a...
read moreDougie’s Friday Mailbag (best fights on the fall schedule, Tim Tszyu, Tony Tucker)
BIG FIGHTS FOR THE SECOND HALF OF 2020 Hello Dougie, Wanted to give out my two cents on certain potential and confirmed...
read moreBest I Faced: Mike Tyson
Note: This feature was originally featured in the January 2014 issue of The Ring Magazine. Mike Tyson is remembered as one...
read moreAnthony Joshua-Joseph Parker – When unbeaten heavyweight champions collide
This Saturday, Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker will clash as unbeaten heavyweight titleholders. That has only happened three times in the entire history of the sport.
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 moreBest I Faced: John Ruiz
In the latest edition of ‘Best I Faced,’ Anson Wainwright profiles John Ruiz, the first ever Latino heavyweight titlist.
read moreTony Tucker fights the good fight – in print
Former IBF heavyweight titlist Tony Tucker’s biography is all about the comeback – in more ways than one.
read moreLem’s latest: Steward remembered on Lampley’s ‘Fight Game’
The late Emanuel “Manny” Steward trained Thomas Hearns, Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Wladimir Klitschko and Mike McCallum among his seemingly endless list of current and former world champions.
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