Its been fifty years since two of the sport of boxing’s great heavyweight champions did battle. For the first time that is. A match in that many consider the greatest fighter of all time Muhammad Ali actually lost. Frazier winning by unanimous decision. An epic engagement at Madison Square Garden. Proceeded by two more battles […]

What Muhammad Ali told Joe Frazier that set him off — looking back half a century on from their first fight On this day exactly fifty years ago Ali and Frazier shared their first battle. The fight took place at Madison Square Garden, New York on March 8th 1971. Both undefeated at the time. A

Freddie Roach, surely one of the best boxing trainers of all time. Moreover, one of the all round good guys in boxing history. Trainer to Filipino boxing champ Manny ‘PacMan’ Pacquiao and many of the sport’s other great names over the years. The list of champions he’s made and worked with is too long to

Boxing is a crazy game at times. That much is fair to say. Heavyweight boxing in of itself is almost like a different sport all together. The power some of these fellas punch with is hard to put into words. Alas, they are conditioned to prepare and fight accordingly. Surely a belt of a baseball

Highly rated pound for pound rated boxing star Teofimo Lopez returns to action on May 29th against George Kambosos. In some significant news that sees him and Kambosos receive very large pay days for their work. Great to see. Lopez has earned things the hard way over the years with his father and worked his

Often times in sport and life men and women alike develop and bloom later in life. Female boxing champion Jessica McCaskill falls into that cateogry. While some have suggested there’s not enough depth in women’s boxing to get it going again in 2021, numbers respectfully suggest otherwise. It is on life support but McCaskill can