A legendary multi-weight world champion once claimed that he was the greatest fighter of all time ahead of Sugar Ray Robinson ...
Nobody ever described Jake LaMotta as well as he once described himself. Or, actually, maybe describe is the wrong word. It’s more like he was confessing. Or possibly he was explaining something that ...
In Valatie, where he lived for two decades, Joey Archer wasn’t recognized as the boxer who sent Sugar Ray Robinson into retirement or the man who fought twice for the world middleweight title at ...
Sugar Ray Leonard believes there is just one fighter in boxing history that was capable of defeating him during his prime ...
It had not even been 15 years since the greatest night of his professional life – perhaps the greatest night in the life of any professional boxer that Britain had ever produced. But those glory days ...
Poster from a boxing match between Sugar Ray Robinson and Ralph Dupas. The poster is white with orange and black text and features black and white images of Sugar Ray ...
Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 24, 1950: Welterweight boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson is interviewed after arriving by train in Frankfurt for his Christmas night fight against Hans Stretz. At right are ...
In the book “How To Be The Greatest Like Muhammad Ali,” writer and sports commentator Steve Dawson listed five fighters whom he thought could lay legitimate claim to rivaling the heavyweight legend ...
The Pound-for-Pound rankings determine who is the best fighter regardless of weight class, although the term was born decades before the official rankings. Terence Crawford could go top with a win ...
Max Kellerman was the voice of boxing analysis for over two decades and made his return to the commentary desk for the fight between Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez. His perspective carries ...
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