Golden Age 1915-1945

Greb fought an almost unbelievable schedule, sometimes monthly, against all sizes from welterweights to heavyweights, and held the...

Born in Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, Langford stood about 5 feet 7 yet knocked out heavyweights and beat the best men from lightwe...

Dempsey demolished giant Jess Willard in Toledo in 1919 to win the title and became the roaring twenties personified, drawing the ...

The Fighting Marine was the thinking boxer of his age, a skilled boxer who studied his rivals like a scholar. He outboxed Dempsey ...

Schmeling won the vacant title in 1930 on a disqualification against Jack Sharkey and defended it before losing the rematch. In 19...

Hammering Henry is the only man to hold three world championships in different weight classes at the same time. In ten months acro...

Before a record crowd of over 100,000 at Soldier Field, Gene Tunney defended the heavyweight title against Jack Dempsey. Tunney wa...

Max Schmeling studied film, spotted Joe Louis dropping his left after jabbing, and bet on himself heavily at long odds. At Yankee ...

With the world on the brink of war, Joe Louis erased 1936, dropping Max Schmeling three times and knocking him out in two minutes ...

Light heavyweight champion Billy Conn gave away 30 pounds and outboxed Joe Louis through 12 rounds at the Polo Grounds in June 194...

Leonard grew up on the Lower East Side of New York and won the world lightweight championship from Freddie Welsh in 1917. He held ...

Walker won the world welterweight title in 1922 and the middleweight title in 1926, then went looking for bigger men. He fought a ...

Ross won the lightweight and junior welterweight titles from Tony Canzoneri in 1933, then fought a celebrated three fight series w...