Dream Fight: Thomas Hearns vs. Bob Fitzsimmons

Dream Fight: Thomas Hea...

Thomas Hearns vs. Bob Fitzsimmons Middleweight Bob Fitzsimmons Bob Fitzsimmons defeated Jim Corbett for the Heavyweight Championship of the World on March 16, 1897.  Fitzsimmons was possibly the hardest punching Middleweight Champion of All-Time.  Finally, at the advanced at of...
Dream Fight: Thomas Hearns vs. Mike McCallum

Dream Fight: Thomas Hea...

By Greg “Stats” Gorecky. This fight came about after intense negotiations.  These two fighters were once stablemates at the famed Kronk Gym in Detroit Michigan.  After getting very little recognition McCallum asked Emanuel Steward if he could fight Thomas Hearns, and Steward...
Mike Gibbons – The Saint Paul Phantom

Mike Gibbons – Th...

By Jim Galiano. Mike Gibbons was one of the best Middleweight fighters to never hold a world title.  Mike started his career in 1908.  His brother Tommy followed two years later.  Mike Gibbons fought in possibly the toughest era in the history of the Middleweight division.  His...
What Made Them – Great Heavyweight Champions

What Made Them – Grea...

By Jersey-Jim. Looking back on the last hundred years of boxing history, the sport has left us with a impressive roll-call of great Heavyweight Champions. Names like… Joe Louis Muhammad Ali Rocky Marciano Mike Tyson Jack Dempsey …these are just a few of the names that surface...