A Boxing Memory: Pat Cowdell When I remember Pat Cowdell, I think largely of three fights. That almighty struggle with the brilliant Mexican Salvador Sanchez in 1981 for the WBC featherweight championship of the world. The mind also flickers back to two nights when Cowdell didn’t see out the opening three minutes. The big punching … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Pat Cowdell →

A Boxing Memory: Edwin Rosario A life cut short. A career cut short. It is a story we hear far too often in boxing. Edwin Rosario was only 34 when his life ended in 1997, just a few months after his final fight. Rosario was a two-weight world champion, winning titles at lightweight and super-lightweight, … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Edwin Rosario →

A Boxing Memory: Mike Tyson vs. Peter McNeeley It does seem somewhat bizarre that a fight that turned out to be every bit as one-sided as most imagined it would be, still touched a million PPV buys. Harry Mullan ringside for Boxing News wrote, “The affair was a disgrace, an embarrassing pantomime masquerading as a … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Mike Tyson vs. Peter McNeeley →

1982: Boxing’s Five Weeks of Chaos By Cain Bradley 1982 was the year of Thriller and ET. The Spanish World Cup took place, and Bjorn Borg retired. Boxing was emerging from the dark state it had ended the 70s in. The MLB experienced strikes to begin the 80s, and the NFL also missed time due … Continue reading 1982: Boxing’s Five Weeks of Chaos →

A Boxing Memory: Mike Tyson vs. Marvis Frazier 'Please go check on him. I'm sorry it happened like this,' Mike Tyson said to Joe Frazier, showing the passion that was missing just a few seconds earlier. Tyson had just bludgeoned Frazier's son Marvis to a crushing defeat in just thirty seconds. Joe Frazier, in a … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Mike Tyson vs. Marvis Frazier →

Muhammad Ali: The Twilight YearsMuhammad Ali carried on way past the point of no return. We can debate when he should have called time on his quite remarkable career. Arguably, it could have been after his 'Rumble in the Jungle' with George Foreman in 1974. More than arguably, it should have been after his near-death … Continue reading Muhammad Ali: The Twilight Years →

A Boxing Memory: Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman Down goes Frazier. Down goes Frazier. Down goes Frazier. Those immortal words from Howard Cosell. It was an iconic moment. A changing of the heavyweight guard. It was a clash of two undefeated former Olympic champions. Joe Frazier was the reigning heavyweight champion of the world. Unbeaten … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman →

A Boxing Memory: Frank Bruno vs. James ‘Bonecrusher’ Smith It was 1984, and the long dark winter months were fading away as hopes rose that we finally had a heavyweight to end a near century of abject misery and failure on the world stage. Frank Bruno was our great new hope. In truth, our best … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Frank Bruno vs. James ‘Bonecrusher’ Smith →

A Boxing Memory: Lloyd Honeyghan It was a seismic upset. Donald Curry, the undefeated and undisputed welterweight champion of the world, was seemingly on another level to his brash but unheralded British challenger. There was little interest in the fight. Even the British press largely stayed at home. Curry was heading towards supposed immortality. His … Continue reading A Boxing Memory: Lloyd Honeyghan →