Nicolas Cazale, France's entry in this year's Shooting Star lineup, is set to play the lead in a biopic about Victor "Young" Perez, the 1920s boxing champ who died in the Holocaust. By Charles Masters ...

In the annals of boxing’s greatest heavyweight champions, two names often enter the conversation: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. They each had Irish backgrounds, were ring-savvy, had real punching ...

Family and friends want to rekindle interest in a Sheffield Lake boxer who, while never the heavyweight champ, sparred with the best fighters of his era. Oct. 10 was Johnny Risko Day in Sheffield Lake ...

At a 1931 dinner-dance, guests dined at tables decorated with pink and yellow roses as they watched heavyweights pummel each other in a boxing ring centering the festivities. That seemed odd to at ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Silver colored medal attached to the ...

1. Tom Molineaux: From Slave to American Heavyweight Champion / Bill Calogero -- 2. George Godfrey: First Colored Heavyweight Campion / Tony Triem -- 3. Peter Jackson: Heavyweight Champion of ...

(This is the third of a series of articles which will be published by the Crimson written by University coaches on the problems and various aspects of their respective sports.) The most convincing ...