By Angelo Prospero Jr. The most revered of all the lightweight champions was Benny Leonard, born Benjamin Leiner, and known as "The Ghetto Jewel." He held the lightweight championship majestically…

TALES ABOUT LIGHTWEIGHTS Part Two -- Eye-Talians and Eye-Poppers By Angelo Prospero Jr. Frankie Ryff and Orlando Zulueta put on a furious fight that won "Fight of the Year" honors…

By Angelo Prospero Jr. Wallace "Bud" Smith was one of a handful of lightweights who died tragically. Others were Bummy Davis, Orlando Zueleta and Teo Cruz. Smith died in a…

By Michael J. Brodhead After the great days of the Comstock discoveries and before the early twentieth-century mineral strikes in the Tonopah-Goldfield area, Nevada experienced several years of severe economic…

By George D. Blair THE MAN FROM MINNESOTA It is doubtful if any community of comparable area and population anywhere in the world the size of St. Paul in the…

By Robert Carson He used to attend all the fights in and around the Kansas City area. A familiar figure with two cauliflower ears, and a nose bent from the…

By George D. Blair The former champ lunged at his young opponent. He threw a looping right which once had been straight as an arrow and just as true as…

By Murray Gaby (Note: This is part one of a two-part story that was originally published in 1980) Take a look at the boxing gyms in this country and you…

By Murray Gaby (Note: This is part two of a two-part story that was originally published in 1980) Heir apparent to Stillman's a as the world's most famous gym is…

By Tom Donelson The most important prizefight in boxing's history would take place on Boxing's biggest stage - Madison Square Garden. It was Ali-Frazier I and in Frazier's corner was…

immy Slattery - Tons of Talent, Short on Will By Angelo Prospero Jr. As a youngster, I often heard my dad expounding the abilities of Jimmy Slattery, Buffalo's outstanding light…

By Robert Carson Bill Owens and Al Walker won't go down in the Boxing Hall of Fame, but in the late 1920's these two black gladiators were cutting quite a…

By L.L. Roberts The bull-necked Croatian-Canadian from Toronto's rough waterfront district was possibly the toughest of all iron men and at his peak was likely the best Caucasian boxer fighting…

By L.L. Roberts Tom Sharkey was born and raised in Ireland of the 1880's. Already a hard lad, a stint in the U.S. Navy toughened him still further, and prepared…

By Guy Louis Rocha and Eric N. Moody MARVIN HART VS. JACK ROOT A century ago, Reno, Nevada had the distinction of hosting a world's championship boxing contest - the…