Thirty-two times, a world heavyweight title rivalry has involved at least two chapters. Sometimes a rematch was essential; ...

Riddick Bowe ended Evander Holyfield’s reign as heavyweight champion when he outpointed him in November 1992 in Las Vegas. It was a highly-competitive contest, leading to a rematch being arranged for ...

Many of my columns rise out of some curious discovery I make in the pages of old issues of The. I’m not an expert on these topics and often some reader out there will know more about them than I do.

Gene Tunney was more than just a champion. He was a master of strategy, a fierce competitor, and one of boxing’s smartest minds. From fighting in World War I to defeating Jack Dempsey twice, Tunney ...

While Dempsey made his reputation as a ferocious brawler, Tunney was the thinking man’s fighter, preferring to focus on avoiding knockouts rather than delivering them.

The Long Count: Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney and the boxing controversy that defined an era It was the biggest boxing match the world had ever seen. It ended in one of the sport’s greatest ...

Greb would later say, “I have boxed Dempsey and Tunney. You never know how good Tunney is until you box him.” Gene was a masterful boxer and a commanding puncher.

Age 36, weight 190, onetime heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey last week climbed into a Chicago ring opposite Harry Krakow ("Kingfish Levinsky"), 21-year-old Maxwell Street fish peddler, ...

Gene Tunney, anticlimactically absent, sent a message of homage to “the noblest Roman of them all.” In turn, Dempsey thought that Tunney was a fine fellow and a great champion, “regardless ...