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Tough Little Specimens of the Light Weight Order: The Establishment of Lightweight Prize-Fighting in the United States during the 1850s

Articles / December 26, 2016

Tough Little Specimens of the Light Weight Order: The Establishment of Lightweight Prize-Fighting in the United States during the 1850s by Hunter M. Claypatch Hunter M. Claypatch recently finished an article on lightweight prize-fighting in the United States during the 1850s. The article contains significant, and previously unpublished information, on this early era of lightweight […]

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The Fight That Started the Movies by Samuel Hawley

Articles / November 12, 2016

LIGHTS, CAMERA, AND ACTION! A review of Samuel Hawley’s The Fight That Started the Movies By Roger Zotti Samuel Hawley’s latest book, the aptly titled The Fight that Started the Movies: The World Heavyweight Championship, The Birth of Cinema and the First Feature Length Film, will please boxing fans, history buffs, and lovers of a

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Jose Becerra: The Guadalajara Cobra

Articles / August 7, 2016

Jose Becerra: The Guadalajara Cobra by Dan Cuoco Jose Becerra was born on April 15, 1936 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He was the second oldest of five children (two brothers and two sisters). Jose became interested in boxing through a friend. He started in the Mexican Golden Gloves and had thirty amateur fights, winning all but

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Hank Bath: No Dempsey, but no fairy tale, either By Pete Ehrmann

Articles / September 15, 2015

Hank Bath: No Dempsey, but no fairy tale, either By Pete Ehrmann Archie Moore once famously said of Kearns, “Give him 500 pounds of steel wool and he’ll knit you a stove.” With Bath in tow, Kearns got right to work… “I had to start looking for some more fighters. I found them, too, even

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Don Cogswell

Articles / June 6, 2015

Author of 100+ boxing historical essays. Inducted into the Florida Boxing Hall of Fame (FBHOF) in 2014 as a historian. Co-author of the highly regarded UnCrowned Champions. A follow-up volume is in progress. Areas of expertise include boxing and the military, ethnicity, and race in boxing, and the socio/political role of boxing through the ages.

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Martin Flaherty

Articles / January 26, 2014

“As a young boy his mother bought him weights and a punching bag as a way to encourage good health and growth. By age ten he was considered a fighting savant.”

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Dan Cuoco

Articles / June 30, 2013

Dan Cuoco has been a lifelong friend of boxing, from the time he was a youngster until the present day.

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The Wizard Is Gone

Articles, Final Bell / May 13, 2013

Johnny Bos forgot more about boxing than most of today’s so-called experts ever knew, but his career in the sport he loved had been a Shakespearean tragedy for years.

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Tracy G. Callis

Articles / January 8, 2013

Tracy G. Callis is a boxing historian and the Director of Historical Research for the International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO).

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