Boxing News by Ben Hoskin
-
The Aldgate Sphinx: Ted “Kid” Lewis – April 11th, 2013
Nat Fleischer and Charley Rose ranked him as the fourth best welterweight of all time and Bert Sugar had him as the thirty-third best boxer in history…
-
Legacy: Triumph and Tragedy of Randy Turpin – January 29th, 2013
Without his tour de force, this magnificent country may well have been deprived of some of the world’s most transcendent athletes…
-
No Joke: Jack Kid Berg – December 3rd, 2012
Names like Benny Leonard, Barney Ross, Ted Kid Lewis and Abe Attell are just a fraction of the all-time greats who happened to be Jewish…
-
The Sorrow and the Pity: Benny Lynch – October 23rd, 2012
Benny’s two final bouts were pathetic. Both times he failed to make weight and the last was lost in a fog of deluded whiskey…