Born on this day: Tony Zale
Three of his middleweight title bouts were named Fight of the Year, and that’s only one of the “trilogies” he’s...
read moreBorn on this day: Marcel Cerdan
Sometimes, it takes a poet to inspire a poet, a writer to inspire a writer or a painter to inspire...
read moreOn this day: Rocky Graziano evens the score against Tony Zale in Fight of the Year
Rock versus Steel. On July 16, 1947, Rocky Graziano scored a come-from-behind sixth-round stoppage over “Man of Steel” Tony Zale to...
read moreDougie’s Friday Mailbag (Navarrete-Villa, Ezzard Charles, Joe Frazier)
NAVARRETE-VILLA Hi Doug, I hope you're well and enjoying some of the great boxing over recent weeks (I'm still buzzing over 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 Monday Mailbag (Loma-Campbell, last chance for Mike Tyson, Manny Pacquiao FOTD?)
LOMACHENKO VS. CAMPBELL Hi Doug, The last time I wrote in was to ask you how good you thought Teofimo Lopez might...
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Fans share their thoughts on Canelo-Smith, Rosado-Monroe, Yamanaka-Moreno, Glowacki-Usyk, Klitschko-Fury II, THE RING middleweight title and more in this week’s Friday mailbag.
read morePolice still awaiting results of DNA testing in case of stolen belts
The Canastota police chief describes the investigation into the six stolen belts belonging to Carmen Basilio and Tony Zale as ‘stagnant.’
read moreMike Tyson offers reward for stolen championship belts
Mike Tyson has offered a reward for the six championship belts that were stolen from the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota in November.
read moreDougie’s Friday mailbag
Fans share their thoughts and criticisms on the heavyweight division, Canelo Alvarez’s weight advantage in the Amir Khan showdown, Guillermo Rigondeaux and much more in this week’s Friday mailbag.
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