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• Greatest KOs in Boxing History – June 18th, 2011

  Everone loves a knockout. And what's not to love? When one man's fists connect with another man's head and he goes crashing to the canvas, everyone's pulse races a little faster. The knockout can not only change the direction of a fight. It can change the direction of a career, the direction of a life...
  
  

• The Long Weekend – June 30th, 2011

  The reason I have the boxing bug this weekend is that I think we are finally going to get some heavyweight fireworks…
  
  

• Klitschko-Haye: The Last Word – July 3rd, 2011

  After running from Klitschko for the entire 12 rounds, Haye plaintively bared his shoeless foot after the bout, complaining of a broken toe...
  
  

• Greatest Moments in the Ring – July 7th, 2011

  
  
  

• Lions of Winter No. 1: Marvin “The Weasel” Elkind – July 11th, 2011

  "The Weasel" has a list of backseat patrons that have included Ali, Frazier, Dempsey, Louis, Chuvalo, Liston, Marciano, Mancini, Moore, and Pryor…
  
  

• 10 Greatest Upsets in Heavyweight History – April 10th, 2012

  There's nothing like an upset to make one believe. All the questionable decisions that cast doubt on the sport are rendered meaningless when an upset occurs. And when the upset is during a contest between world-class heavyweights, the satisfaction is that much greater. This sampling covers some of the greatest upsets among heavyweights in history and includes Foreman-Frazier, Norton-Ali, Rahman-Lewis, Ali-Foreman, Louis-Schmeling, Clay-Liston, Braddock-Baer, and Tyson-Douglas...
  
  

• Mike Tyson on Past Heavyweight Champs – August 6th, 2011

  Before he was the youngest man in history to be crowned heavyweight champion at age 20 in 1986, Mike Tyson had learned all there was to learn about heavyweight history. Part of his Catskill education took place in the ring, and part of it took place outside the ring, in front of a portable movie screen watching old fights. Cus D'Amato wanted Tyson to know about the great champions of the past--to give his young charge context, to give the teenaged Tyson a reason to believe he could become one of them...
  
  

• The Writer vs. The Fighter – August 10th, 2011

  Moore was light heavyweight champ from 1952-1962 and a cunning ring presence. His record at the time of Plimpton’s challenge was 171-22-9 (123 KOs)…
  
  

• Naming Names in the Fight Game – August 23rd, 2011

  When people say “sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never harm me,” they could not be more wrong…
  
  

• Dan Hill Sings Pacman's Praises – September 7th, 2011

  
  
  

• Is Larry HBO’s Merchant of Menace? – September 21st, 2011

  After Saturday’s fight between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz, Larry Merchant, not for the first time, finds himself in the crosshairs…
  
  

• Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling—A History – September 26th, 2011

  The two bouts between Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling are among the most talked about fights in boxing history. Fought in the shadow of World War II, the two fights and two fighters came to represent the struggle between democracy and fascism. Their first fight was on June 19, 1936, at Yankee Stadium. When it was over, Adolf Hitler cabled Schmeling's wife: "For the wonderful victory of your husband, our greatest German boxer, I must congratulate you with all my heart." Their second fight, scheduled for June 22, 1938, couldn't have been more different. Two weeks before the rematch, Louis was invited to visit President Roosevelt at the White House. Putting his hand on Louis' bicep, Roosevelt told him, "Joe, we need muscles like yours to beat Germany..."
  
  

• Jack the Ripper’s Dead: Sonny Liston – September 27th, 2011

  There always has to be a boogieman to keep us on our toes and fire our humdrum lives with some dangerous excitement...
  
  

• The Medium Is the Message – October 15th, 2011

  One senses Bozella’s awkwardness, his awareness that this is for a good cause, if not completely kosher…
  
  

• The End Game – October 25th, 2011

  If this can happen to our best—whether it be Parkinson’s, early senility, dementia, or Alzheimer’s—what does it mean for the rest…
  
  

• Jack Dempsey: True Greatness – October 26th, 2011

  A fight to Dempsey was a struggle to the death. That is how he saw it. That was the kind of special fire that burned in his blood...
  
  

• Manny Pacquiao? Calm Down, Dear! – November 10th, 2011

  Lord, how we need him. Take away Manny and our battered old sport would be depressingly lacking in vintage talent...
  
  

• Rock Solid: Magnificent Marciano – November 27th, 2011

  Now to the big question: How good a heavyweight puncher was Rocky Marciano? The simple answer is that he was one of the true elite...
  
  

• Roy Jones: Going Down the Highway – December 19th, 2011

  It is hard, if you have any ounce of humanity, to watch a human being, like or dislike, disintegrating in the public domain…
  
  

• Boxing In and Out of the Ring – December 22nd, 2011

  The documentary Boxing In and Out of the Ring examines some of shadier aspects of our beloved sport—namely the games promoters play with fight managers and sanctioning bodies to get their fighters the rankings and big money fights they desire. Using interviews, fight footage, and hidden FBI surveillance cameras, the picture painted isn't a pretty one, but it's something that has been going on long before most of us were even born...
  
  

• Unforgettable Greatness: Tony Canzoneri – January 19th, 2012

  "Sure it was worth it," said Canzoneri, "every drop of blood and every stitch of it. I wouldn’t have it any other way...”
  
  

• Angelo Dundee: Making Boxing Fun Again – February 2nd, 2012

  Dundee was a man of great compassion and integrity who made his living in a business known for its bullies, thieves and hypocrites…
  
  

• When Fans Go “Oooh and Aaah” – February 3rd, 2012

  Sometimes cuties are flashy or stylish, but more often than not, their calling card is reliance on a crafty persona…
  
  

• Return to Sender – February 7th, 2012

  
  
  

• Every Punch Was Aimed at Hitler – February 7th, 2012

  Back in Washington President Roosevelt smiled, said he felt “snappy” and made a pitcher of martinis for his invited guests…
  
  

• The Journey of the African-American Boxer – February 8th, 2012

  Decades before baseball admitted Jackie Robinson into its lily white ranks, boxing was making strides to give African-American fighters a fair shake. But then as now, racial overtones influenced who fought who. Icons like John L. Sullivan and Jack Dempsey, even Jack Johnson, drew the color line when it came to fighting their black brothers. Part of it was cultural. Part of it was habit. Part of it was fear of losing to the better man...
  
  

• Baer vs. Louis: “Fate Takes a Hand” – February 14th, 2012

  “Dynamite puncher,” recalled Jimmy Braddock about Max Baer. “If he hit you right, he’d knock you out in the third row…”
  
  

• Vitali Klitschko: One Big Enigma – February 16th, 2012

  Vitali Klitschko is a mystery man—and he’s about to cause more headaches for boxing critics and historians than he ever has with his powerful jab...
  
  

• Pocket Battleship: Sam Langford – February 16th, 2012

  Boxing can be a cruelly deceptive sport. It can paint pretty pictures and then deface them at the drop of a hat...
  
  

• Last Man Standing – February 19th, 2012

  We must never forget that a boxing match is ultimately about determining who can impose his will on another by using only his wits and his fists…
  
  

• Let the Roses Bloom – February 20th, 2012

  Boxing has suffered so many black eyes over the years that it looks less like a sport than a panda. Boxing, whose aim is questionable...
  
  

• Klitschko vs. Mormeck Preview – March 3rd, 2012

  Robert Ecksel, Editor-in-Chief of Boxing.com, speaks with Rick Strom of TYT Sports about this afternoon's heavyweight contest between Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KOs) and Jean-Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KOs) at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany. Many are expecting the bout to be nothing less than Godzilla vs. Bambi, and they might be right. But upsets occur, titles change hands, little men sometimes beat big men. Whether 5'11" Mormeck has what it takes to slow the Klitschko juggernaut is open to debate. If Wladimir has anything to say about, and his fists will do the talking, it will not happen...
  
  

• Sometimes a Great Notion: Billy Conn – March 7th, 2012

  When Billy hung ‘em up after 77 fights against some of the toughest guys on the block, that mischievous matinee idol face was still intact...
  
  

• Galento vs. Louis/1939: “I’ll Moider da Bum” – March 8th, 2012

  For one moment in his tumultuous life he had Joe Louis at his feet. That is a feeling “Two Ton” Tony never forgot…
  
  

• Postcard From Panama: Duran’s Place – March 19th, 2012

  One hundred and nineteen of those battles and still here, still a pistol, and in great shape this GRAND CHAMPION DURAN…
  
  

• Johansson vs. Patterson: “The Hammer of Thor” – March 20th, 2012

  "Ingemar looks good physically…so does Errol Flynn—and Errol couldn’t fight his way out of a roomful of gorgeous blondes...”
  
  

• First Round KOs – March 21st, 2012

  Here's a look at some of the most significant early KOs ever to grace the sometimes graceless heavyweight division…
  
  

• The Vintage Years of Ezzard Charles – March 22nd, 2012

  The young Cobra beat many an illustrious opponent with his precise and educated punching, yet Lady Luck seemed to bite him back just as often...
  
  

• Klitschko/Schmeling: “The German Connection” – March 29th, 2012

  “Max Schmeling was my idol,” said Vitali, “and one of the greatest human beings I will ever meet in my life…”
  
  

• The Big Bombers: Shavers & Co. – April 2nd, 2012

  Like a big shark casting its shadow, you simply never knew what Shavers was going to do next. Would he simply bump you or take a big bite?
  
  

• Cinderella Men: Mike Weaver – April 9th, 2012

  In the last minute of the last round, Mike Weaver landed a punch of which Joe Louis or Rocky Marciano would have been proud…
  
  

• The Great Comeback: Floyd Patterson – April 11th, 2012

  Patterson was a deeply sensitive man, the kind of rare soul who rarely uttered a derogatory word about others...
  
  

• Mayweather vs. Cotto: Oscar’s Blueprint – May 4th, 2012

  The jab is to modern boxing what world peace is to Miss Universe; to whit, you need to put it out there if you want to impress the judges...
  
  

• Runaway Train: The Prime George Foreman – May 9th, 2012

  Those opponents who saw any light at the end of the tunnel were usually staring at Foreman’s oncoming train...
  
  

• Joe Louis vs. Buddy Baer 1941: “Baer Hugs” – May 9th, 2012

  Max Schmeling had won the vacant heavyweight title against Jack Sharkey in 1930 on a foul. Why not Buddy Baer?