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Sonny Liston reached the highest position in boxing without receiving what normally came with it. Heavyweight champions were celebrated, admired, and treated as national figures. L...
The heavyweight champion stopped Floyd Patterson in one round for the second straight fight, strengthening ... continue Sonny Liston Crushes Floyd Patterson Again In Historic Milli...
Liston stopped Patterson in the first round on July 22, 1963, before the controversial rematch helped change future heavyweight title contracts. Sonny Liston stopped Floyd Patterso...
Cassius Clay had just won the heavyweight championship, but celebrating wasn’t his primary focus. The 22-year-old wanted to settle a score with the reporters who spent weeks tellin...
Long before Cassius Clay shocked Sonny Liston to capture the world title, many in boxing believed Doug Jones might expose the technical flaws that would prevent the young contender...
The ultimate prize in all of sports: the heavyweight championship. Professional boxing’s highly coveted mark of greatness is so grand a conquest that, today at least, winning even...
Cassius Clay successfully defended the WBC, NYSAC, and The Ring heavyweight titles by knocking out British challenger Brian London in the third round before approximately 13,000 fa...
A son of a former world heavyweight champion will look to continue his father’s legacy after putting pen to paper on a new promotional deal. The heavyweight division has been home...
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and are without doubt the most iconic heavyweight fighters of all time, but if the pair were to meet in their primes, four-division world champion believes he knows who would come...
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Muhammad Ali recorded the final knockout of his career against Richard Dunn on May 24, 1976, stopping the British challenger in the fifth round at Munich’s Olympiahalle. What looke...
Praised as one of the most intelligent fighters, Shakur Stevenson is fast-becoming a candidate for the position as pound-for-pound number one. Although, when it came to naming his...
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considers to be one of the most “skilful” heavyweights of all time, only to come off second best in a compelling fantasy showdown. The 39-year-old seems on the verge of retirement...
Billy Joe Saunders has compared Moses Itauma to Muhammad Ali, although the two heavyweights share almost none of the same fighting characteristics. Ali threw combinations, circled...
Joe Louis expected another successful heavyweight title defense on June 28, 1939, but Tony Galento gave him four violent rounds that became part of boxing history. The 25-year-old...
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Former WBC cruiserweight champion has revealed what he believes to have been the greatest win in the history of boxing. Boxing has played host to some of sport’s most iconic moment...
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Despite his controversial defeat to Floyd Mayweather in 2011, Victor Ortiz believes one other opponent posed a greater threat than the self-proclaimed ‘Best Ever’. Having just deth...
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has weighed in on the hardest hitting heavyweight of all time debate, naming a formidable puncher who ended his career with a 92% knockout-to-win ratio. When it comes to discussing...
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