heavyweight history

Who is the Heavyweight Champion of the World? from JohnBKelly 1481 days old

When Lennox Lewis walked away from boxing as undefeated World Heavyweight Champion he did himself a great favour and left the heavyweight division in ...

Hasim Rahman – the one shot champ from JohnBKelly 1496 days old

Hasim Rahman is one of those boxing stories that just don’t occur that often. In other sports they are as rare as honest politicians or ninety ...

Lennox Lewis – the Quiet Champ from JohnBKelly 1503 days old

The spectre of the 6’5” 235lb Lennox Lewis dominated the Heavyweight division from 1993 to 2003. Lennox was the challenger no champ fancied ...

Michael Moorer - was he really Champ? from JohnBKelly 1513 days old

Michael Moorer is one of the those fighters whose career seems to have progressed fairly successfully without ever capturing the public's imagination. ...

Leon Spinks - the Accidental Champ from JohnBKelly 1549 days old

Leon Spinks came along at just the right time. He would never have beaten any other heavyweight champ but the 36 year old Ali. A man who had simply ...

Joe Frazier - the Philly Fighter from JohnBKelly 1551 days old

Smoking Joe Frazier was the antithesis of Ali where Ali was tall graceful and articulate; Joe was short (5'11"), squat(200lbs) and quiet. Ali talked ...

Ingemar Johansson - the Viking Champ from JohnBKelly 1556 days old

Ingemar Johansson the man who was disqualified in the 1952 Olympic Heavyweight final for running away from his opponent Ed Sanders became Europe's ...

Rocky Marciano - the Brockton Blockbuster from JohnBKelly 1562 days old

Much has been written about Rocky Marciano the only world heavyweight champion to never lose a professional contest. When Rocky hung up his gloves ...

Jersey Joe Walcott - the showman from JohnBKelly 1563 days old

Jersey Joe Walcott was one of the craftiest boxers ever to win a world title. Walcott have a wider range of punches and sidesteps than even the great ...

Max Baer - the Clown from JohnBKelly 1569 days old

Max Baer the kid from California with the big smile was a real sporting celebrity in the hungry thirties. He was a prototype of the seventies heavyweights ...