Giovanni “Nino” Benvenuti won the gold medal in the welterweight class at the 1960 Rome Olympics where he edged out the young American light heavyweight Cassius...
Don Stradley’s path to becoming a writer wasn’t typical, but it didn’t stop him from penning several well-received books, mostly on boxing, and authoring lively and...
On Friday, Oct. 8, 1976, Peter Bufala returned home from work just as a new day was dawning. The Las Vegas baccarat dealer pulled his Cadillac...
The triumph of Fernando Martínez last Saturday, October 8th, in the rematch against the veteran former world champion Jerwin Ancajas, gave a sigh of relief to...
There was bad news today on the boxing front. World class ring announcer David Diamante was critically injured in a motorcycle accident. Earlier in the day,...
Nino Benvenuti and Akron, Ohio, were an awkward fit. Benvenuti was something of a Renaissance man, or at least that is how he was portrayed. He...
It isn’t exactly a news flash that most fight fans are mesmerized by power-punchers, maybe even more than usual if a particular knockout artist has demonstrated...
It would be technically incorrect to state that it all began for Marvelous Marvin Hagler during his frequent working visits to Philadelphia in the mid- to...
Book Review by Thomas Hauser — Carlos Monzon was born into extreme poverty in Argentina on August 7, 1942. He was mean, violent, surly, brutal, arrogant,...
For the middleweights, world-conquering monsters arrived early. Of the three divisions I’ve studied so far, middleweight is by far the most dangerous territory. The top 12...