Roy Jones Jr. is the only boxer in history to start his professional career as a light middleweight and go on to become heavyweight champion…
Ken Norton is the only heavyweight champion never to win the title in the ring. One of the standouts of the talent-filled 1970s heavyweight division,…
Larry Holmes is the only boxer in history to have stopped Muhammad Ali. Holmes was WBC heavyweight champion from 1978 to 1983 and IBF champ…
Ray Leonard is the first boxer to win world titles in five different weight classes. Over the course of his 20-year career, Leonard won the…
Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest fighter – in any weight class – in boxing history. A dominant force in the ring for two decades,…
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier staged three of boxing’s fiercest battles. The most famous was their first meeting, accurately billed as the Fight of the…
Chuck Wepner was the real Rocky Balboa. Charles Wepner was born in New York City on February 26, 1939. After his parents separated, Chuck and…
George Edward Foreman went from a high school dropout to a millionaire. Born in Marshall, Texas, January 10, 1949, he grew up poor in Houston. …
Teofilo Stevenson Lawrence is the first man to win three Olympic gold medals in the same weight division. Born on this date in 1952 in…