Roy Jones Jr.

November 22, 2017 0

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

August 9, 2017 0

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

June 12, 2017 0

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…

Sugar Ray Leonard

May 17, 2017 0

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…

Ray Robinson

April 12, 2017 0

Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest fighter – in any weight class – in boxing history. A dominant force in the ring for two decades,…

Fight of the Century

March 8, 2017 0

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…

Joe Louis

January 25, 2017 0

“Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.” – Joe Louis Joe Louis is the best heavyweight boxer of all time.  He was world champion from…

Chuck Wepner

December 16, 2016 0

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 Foreman

October 26, 2016 0

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

May 29, 2016 0

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…