Written By: Armando Paz In 1926, there was great anticipation of the sport’s biggest star Jack Dempsey returning to the ring after a three year hiatus. Dempsey was more popular than even Babe Ruth the biggest baseball star at the time. The major question that needed to be answered was who would...
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Written By: Armando Paz It seemed that destiny would eventually bring Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney to the ring for the Heavyweight World Title. Tunney had his eyes on Dempsey as a possible opponent even before he joined the Marines and was stationed in France during World War 1. Dempsey was easily the biggest...
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Written By: Armando Paz In the beginning of 1983 it was the full intention of Benitez to make a run at Marvin Hagler. Hagler was a natural orthodox who fought southpaw and known for his excellent conditioning, impervious chin, and the infamous bald head. At the time, many felt Hagler was not...
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Written By: Armando Paz As Benitez entered the ring to defend his welterweight title against Sugar Ray Leonard he immediately looked for Sugar Ray. When his eyes set in on the American upstart he had an intense stare down that couldn’t be separated even by referee Carlos Padilla. Unfortunately, for Benitez the contender Sugar...
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Written By: Armando Paz While most teenage boys at the age of 15 are thinking about girls, video games, and puberty the pugilist prodigy Wilfred Benitez was knocking out men twice his age. Benitez was born in the Bronx, New York in 1958. His family moved back to Puerto Rico when he was...
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Written By: Armando Paz The illustrious middleweight career of Marvelous Marvin Hagler had many memorable and challenging bouts as his early wars with Eugene “Cyclone” Hart, Willie Monroe Bernie Briscoe, and Vito Antefuermo in the 1970’s but those fights took place as Hagler was either a Contender or Challenger. The 1980’s would see Hagler...
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Written By: Armando Paz If there were adjectives to describe the fighting style of Australian Boxing champion Jeff Fenech there all would be synonymous with aggression as: swarmer, inside fighting, brawler, stalker etc. Fenech in many ways was like the old school fighter he grew up admiring; Roberto Duran. The ideal was simply to take the...
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Written by Elliot Millward 14th November, 1966 is a day that will go down in boxing history as one of the most masterful displays ever by a pugilist. Muhammad Ali was the performer of this powerful yet elegant performance of heavyweight boxing with the victim being Cleveland ‘Big Cat’ Williams, the challenger for Ali’s...
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