6,343円 Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter. However, not everyone in the region was a fan. Counterpunch examines how the sport’s meteoric rise in popularity in the West ran concurrently with a growing backlash among Progressive Era social reformers who saw ...

453円 Charles Sonny Liston was an ex-con who entered boxing in 1953 after serving a term in prison in Missouri. He learned to fight on the streets of St. Louis. The first two years of the 1960s decade were eventful for Sonny, not just because of speculation of a possible title shot with heavyweight cha...

340円 Juste Fontaine was once a gym sweeper in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Around 1943 former welterweight champion Fritzie Zivic took him under his wing and taught him to box in a Pittsburgh gym. Fontaine was a hard puncher who fought his way to a sixth place ranking among world lightweights. Juste ran into...

340円 Doll Raffert like Juste Fontaine was a lightweight boxer from Milwaukee. Both entered the ring around 1943 and each enjoyed a measure of success in their careers. Doll and Juste fought three times with Rafferty winning two of the fights and Fontaine winning the bout fought in Pittsburgh. Both Raf...

450円 William Sailor Freedman was a lightweight boxer who came to Philadelphia from Brooklyn as a runaway youth. He worked as a newsboy before he became an employee of gambler Max Hoff. In later years he resumed his connections with organized crime associates like Hoff. Hoff was a rum runner during the...

449円 Jack McVey was a scientific type of boxer who fought in the welterweight and middleweight classifications of boxing from 1920-1936. He made good use of both his left and right hands and was an excellent defensive fighter. Originally from Georgia McVey fought out of Harlem in venues from New York ...

448円 Cesar Brion was a heavyweight from Cordoba, Argentina, a former worker in the diplomatic office. He came to the United States, like many other young prospects, hoping to have a shot at meeting the winner of the Ezzard Charles-Jersey Joe Walcott 1949 fight. There were others who came from Europe a...

446円 William Landon Gorilla Jones was a middleweight champion in 1932, winning an elimination tournament in Milwaukee a year after Mickey Walker gave the title up. Jones beat Italian boxer Oddone Piazza for the title. Jones conceded the title a year later in France following a unification bout that he...

1,779円 They called him 'Hands of Stone'. In his own words, and for the first time, Roberto Duran tells his unbelievable story in I Am Duran: The Autobiography of Robert Duran. From the mean streets of Panama to the bright lights of Las Vegas, blazing a trail through the golden decade of boxing, Duran, i...

451円 Continuing the Don't Be An Idiot When You Spar series, Don't Be An Idiot When You Spar 3: Your First Muay Thai Fight is about the physical and mental preparations one must go through to get ready for a fighter's first Muay Thai fight. About the Don't Be An Idiot When You Spar series: If two peopl...

3,443円 Scott LeDoux’s face read like a roadmap of boxing’s last golden eraーeye thumbed by Larry Holmes, brow gashed by Mike Tyson, ears stung by none other than Muhammad Ali. “George Foreman hit me so hard,” LeDoux said, “my ancestors in France felt it.” The only man to step into the ring with eleven h...

2,317円 Today Bill Richmond is largely unknown to the wider public, but he was one of the most significant sportsmen in history and one of the most prominent celebrities of Georgian times. Born into slavery in Staten Island, Richmond won his freedom as a young boy and carved a new life for himself in Eng...