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• From Hell to Eternity: Vinnie Curto Lives – May 19th, 2013

  “Hey lady, hey lady, I’ll go along with this, but look, I just fought ten rounds. You see these stitches? Please don't smack me…”
  
  

• Bearding the Baer – May 5th, 2013

  You remember what I said? "I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early…"
  
  

• Looking Back: Part Two – May 4th, 2013

  A new bravado begins. Muhammad Ali’s sociopolitical defiance is in sync with the times. He begins to transcend boxing…
  
  

• Jerry Quarry: Cut Adrift in Atlanta – April 30th, 2013

  “You know,” said Quarry, “if anybody asks me to come up here and say he’s the greatest fighter around, forget it. There’s no way…”
  
  

• Top Ten Heavyweight Champions – April 2nd, 2013

  Let us set aside the present and recall the days of more gifted and charismatic champions. Here are the ten best heavyweights of all time…
  
  

• Moist Eyes – April 1st, 2013

  In the audience were grizzled ex-boxers, cynical boxing observers, veteran writers, former inductees, and tough muscular guys with tattoos and lots of jewelry…
  
  

• Another Knockout by Archie Moore – March 27th, 2013

  Slowly the door opened to reveal the distinguished brown face, highlighted by a graying mustache and goatee, of Archie Moore…
  
  

• George Foreman vs. Ken Norton – March 26th, 2013

  On March 26, 1974 at El Poliedro in Caracas, Venezuela, heavyweight champion George Foreman, from Marshall, Texas, defended his WBC/WBA titles against Ken Norton, from Jacksonville, Illinois. Big George was undefeated at 19-0 coming in. Norton was 30-2. The fight was scheduled for 15 rounds...
  
  

• Gluttony Is No Sin – March 24th, 2013

  LaMotta’s jaw was something of an open challenge, but similar to a fairground game the chance of cracking it was anywhere between slim and none...
  
  

• The 100 Greatest Fighters of All Time Part Three: 80-71 – March 12th, 2013

  Should conservatism in matchmaking become the norm, much of the oxygen that allows greatness to burn is sucked from the room...
  
  

• The Brutal Separation of Man and Boy – March 10th, 2013

  At least the beaten Marvis remained standing, and there was definitely a sliver of pride in that when facing a prime Larry Holmes...
  
  

• 10 Greatest Upsets in Heavyweight History – February 24th, 2013

  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…
  
  

• Open Letter to Dan Rafael – February 20th, 2013

  
  
  

• Time in a Hurry—Foreman Was Never Better – January 17th, 2013

  Something special was taking place. All those fantasy dream fights of who would have won, Frazier or Marciano, Frazier or Dempsey, were being shunted aside...
  
  

• Wild West Hero: Ron Lyle – December 29th, 2012

  He decided to channel his energy into boxing. He made his mind up about something else too. He would win the heavyweight championship of the world…
  
  

• The 15 Greatest Composite Punchers of All Time – December 26th, 2012

  A great fighter is so much more than a collection of physical attributes, even if they are lucky enough to possess an absolutely extraordinary one...
  
  

• Larry Holmes vs. Ken Norton – December 24th, 2012

  Complaining about the current state of the heavyweight division is like beating a dead horse. It may be satisfying on some level, but that old gray mare ain't what she used to be. Larry Holmes fought Ken Norton at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for the WBC heavyweight title on June 9, 1978. Holmes had beaten…
  
  

• George Foreman vs. Ron Lyle – December 22nd, 2012

  Although it was a long time ago, January 24, 1976, to be exact, when George Foreman fought Ron Lyle at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for the vacant NABF heavyweight title, these two giants punched their way into the record books. It wasn't the number of punches thrown or anything so prosaic which made…
  
  

• Dick Tiger vs. Henry Hank: A Golden Era of Middleweight Boxers – December 17th, 2012

  For Tiger, the bout with Hank proved to be the final eliminator before challenging and defeating Gene Fullmer for the world middleweight championship...
  
  

• Thirty Years Ago Today: Tex Cobb Meets Larry Holmes – November 26th, 2012

  Although the fight looked like a train wreck and Cosell was calling for it to be stopped, Tex told me wasn't hurt at all…
  
  

• Muhammad Ali vs. Ken Norton III – September 28th, 2012

  On September 28, 1976, WBC/WBA heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali fought Ken Norton for the third at last time at Yankee Stadium. They fought twice in 1973. The first fight was a split decision that went to Norton. The second was a split decision win for Ali. Going into the rubber match, Muhammad was…
  
  

• Mayweather Sr. to Train Victor Ortiz – September 22nd, 2012

  “I won’t train anyone against my son. I know what Victor needs to do to beat my son but I’m not gonna train him against my flesh and blood…”
  
  

• Quarrymen: The Not-So-Sweet Science – August 20th, 2012

  Boxing, it seemed, was the only Quarry family business. The patriarch, Jack, who was 81 when I spoke with him in his nursing home, wouldn’t have had it any other way…
  
  

• Ken Norton Hospitalized – August 11th, 2012

  
  
  

• The Little Old Man – July 19th, 2012

  Owing to an amusing resemblance with Congolese figurehead Patrice Lumumba, Estaba’s alias became his surname...
  
  

• The Memory Bank: Part Twelve – July 7th, 2012

  Being a serious boxing fan means accumulating a memory bank of great fights. For me, it also means Juan “Kid” Meza vs. Jaime Garza…
  
  

• Josesito Downgrades Victor Ortiz – June 23rd, 2012

  The questions that have dogged Ortiz since he quit against Maidana, and since his love-in tactics against Mayweather, may have finally been answered…
  
  

• Context Makes Fights: Mayweather-Pacquiao – May 24th, 2012

  Let’s examine this hypothetical matchup and discuss the pitfalls to using classical boxing logic to predict the outcome…
  
  

• Ken Norton, Thanks Now and Then – May 23rd, 2012

  “I won the first fight and the third,” Norton tells me. “With Muhammad it was a mental thing. You had to beat him in and out of the ring…”
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• In Praise of a Prizefighting Leatherneck – April 15th, 2012

  There are many famous boxers who were also Marines. Gene Tunney, Ken Norton, and Carmen Basilio come immediately to mind…
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• A Literal and Literary Boxing Journeyman – April 4th, 2012

  “People who think they’d have nothing in common with someone like me,” says Bozic, “and then all of a sudden, I’m reciting Emily Dickenson…”
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Manny Steward on Maravilla – March 18th, 2012

  
  
  

• When Harry Met Ali (Documentary) – March 9th, 2012

  There are no shortage of documentaries on Muhammad Ali. Some are good, some are not so good, and some are better than most. The documentary "When Harry Met Ali" is better than most and is narrated by British boxing writer Harry Carpenter, who followed Ali from his earliest days to the end of his remarkable…
  
  

• Mills Lane: Let's Get It On! – March 8th, 2012

  Lane knew he had moved to a new level of celebrity after the fight when he sold his bloodstained shirt to a collector…
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• Manny Steward on Pacquiao-Marquez III – November 12th, 2011

  Amid blinding strobes and deafening music, the Vegas equivalent of darkness and silence, I asked Steward about Pacquiao-Marquez…
  
  

• Pacquiao vs. Marquez: One Last Time – November 7th, 2011

  Fighters sometimes smile because they know how fickle life can be, how fickle fans can be, how alone they really are, in the ring and in the universe...
  
  

• Big Daddy: Should He Be Inducted into the Hall? – November 2nd, 2011

  Bowe slaughtered highly touted trash-talking Jorge Luis Gonzalez. He did this like a butcher works on fresh meat…
  
  

• "Champions Forever": Ali-Frazier-Foreman-Norton-Holmes – October 19th, 2011

  This 1989 documentary takes a good hard look at the last Golden Age of Heavyweights. It was an era when even the second and third tier heavyweights might be champions today, and this film focuses on the crème de la crème of boxing’s marquee division: Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ken…
  
  

• Big George on Bernard Hopkins – October 15th, 2011

  
  
  

• Pacquiao-Marquez on the Hudson – September 6th, 2011

  “If you look back in history at the great trilogies,” said Harold Lederman, “the third fight’s always as good as the first two…”
  
  

• Jerry Quarry: The Enemy Within – August 28th, 2011

  The feints were absent, the counterpunching was not sharp, and the punches were wild. Something was amiss…
  
  

• Scott LeDoux (Jan. 7, 1949 – Aug. 11, 2011) – August 12th, 2011

  LeDoux was a rough, tough, 6’2”, 220 lb. road warrior out of Minnesota who fought the very best during the golden age of heavyweights in the 70s...
  
  

• Ten-Count for Scott LeDoux – August 11th, 2011

  
  
  

• Bronson, Haye, and Tyson Fury – June 23rd, 2011

  We shall see if Haye is a little big man. Does he have The Great Spirit? Will he attack or slowly be worn down?
  
  

• The Mexicans—It's in the Blood – June 10th, 2011

  Olivares, a true champion, always so accomodating and always so gracious at these Hall of Fame events, sits with a relaxed smile on his face...