Fight

Before 10,000 at the Olympic Club, bank clerk James J. Corbett knocked out the great John L. Sullivan in the 21st round of the fir...

Unbeaten champion James Jeffries came off a six year retirement as the great white hope to face Jack Johnson, who had taken the ti...

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...

Middleweight champion Tony Zale and challenger Rocky Graziano traded bombs at Yankee Stadium in September 1946 in one of the great...

In Chicago on February 14 1951, Sugar Ray Robinson finally took the middleweight crown from Jake LaMotta in their sixth meeting. H...

Champion Jersey Joe Walcott, 37 years old and cagey, dropped Rocky Marciano in round one and led on the cards through 12. In the 1...

After Ingemar Johansson knocked him out in 1959 and Patterson returned the favor in 1960, the rubber match in Miami Beach settled ...

Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog who had screamed predictions for weeks, made good against the fearsome Sonny Liston on February 25 19...

In a tiny hockey rink before barely 2,400 spectators, Muhammad Ali leaned away and tagged Sonny Liston with a right hand so short ...

Two undefeated champions, Muhammad Ali 31-0 back from exile and Joe Frazier 26-0, met at Madison Square Garden with half the world...

George Foreman, a 3-1 underdog against unbeaten champion Joe Frazier, hurt him almost immediately and put him down three times in ...

Staged at 4 AM before 60,000 in Zaire with a music festival attached, the Rumble saw Muhammad Ali lean back on the ropes and let G...

In morning heat at the Araneta Coliseum, Muhammad Ali called it the closest thing to dying. Ali punished Joe Frazier early, Frazie...

Welterweight champion Sugar Ray Leonard boxed to order against Roberto Duran, who goaded him into a fight instead. Before 46,000 a...

Five months after Montreal, Sugar Ray Leonard refused to fight Duran fight, boxing, mocking, winding him up with a bolo punch. In ...

The Showdown at Caesars Palace unified the welterweight title. Thomas Hearns boxed beautifully, built a lead on the cards and hurt...

Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns spent eight minutes trying to take each other head off. Round one is routinely called the greatest...

Sugar Ray Leonard had fought once in five years, coming off retina surgery, and moved up to challenge the middleweight king Marvin...

Meldrick Taylor boxed brilliantly and led on two scorecards against Julio Cesar Chavez entering the final round. A Chavez right ha...

At the Tokyo Dome on February 11 1990, James Buster Douglas, written off by every bookmaker, survived a round eight knockdown, ros...

Big Daddy Bowe took the undisputed championship from Evander Holyfield at Madison Square Garden in November 1992 by unanimous deci...

Seven months after Evander Holyfield upset Mike Tyson, the rematch at the MGM Grand on June 28 1997 ended in infamy. Tyson, frustr...

Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward, two honest pros, made a trilogy of pure war. In the first fight Ward was hurt badly in round five, dr...

Oscar De La Hoya, boxing biggest draw, met unbeaten Floyd Mayweather at 154 pounds on May 5 2007. Mayweather split the guard early...

After six years of negotiations, Floyd Mayweather finally met Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand. Mayweather controlled range with th...

In the World Boxing Super Series final in Saitama, Naoya Inoue and Nonito Donaire traded the fight of 2019. Donaire, 36, cracked I...

Gennady Golovkin stalked, Canelo Alvarez countered, and for 12 rounds at T-Mobile Arena in September 2017 they made a middleweight...

Anthony Joshua, the 2012 Olympic champion, defended the heavyweight title against the returning 41 year old Wladimir Klitschko on ...

Fourteen months after their disputed draw, Tyson Fury abandoned boxing for brawl, decking Deontay Wilder in the third and fifth ro...

The trilogy fight at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas exceeded both earlier meetings. Deontay Wilder dropped Tyson Fury twice in round ...

Errol Spence and Terence Crawford finally met in Las Vegas to decide the undisputed welterweight championship. Crawford dropped Sp...

Oleksandr Usyk boxed through a swollen face, dropped Tyson Fury hard in round nine, and won a split decision in Riyadh to become t...

Alexis Arguello moved up seeking to become the first four division world champion, and Aaron Pryor met him in Miami at a furious p...

The two Mexican rivals met in Las Vegas to unify the WBC and WBO super bantamweight titles and fought at a fierce pace for twelve ...

After a brawl at the announcement press conference in New York, the fight was staged at the Pyramid in Memphis and became one of t...

Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo met in Las Vegas to unify lightweight titles and fought nine brutal rounds at close range. I...