• Bob Foster and the light heavyweight division

    By David Martinez / Boxing Historian
    I consider myself truly blessed to have seen over the past fifty years all the boxing greats. I have written various articles ranking different boxers in their primes, but I feel compelled to write now about a division in boxing that hardly anyone ever talks about – light heavyweight. […]

  • DM Boxing Tour Video DM Boxing Tour Video

    I would like to share my collection of fifty years of boxing as dmboxing.com approaches its fifth year this month. It’s been a pleasure to be able to provide you with boxing information and I would like to thank you for making this website one of your choices in boxing.

  • Greatest Boxer “Pound for Pound”… Ever

                                  By David Martinez / Boxing Historian I have been asked many times “who is the greatest boxer of all time in any weight division at the height of his career” and that answer is the easiest for me to come up with – Sugar Ray Robinson. I could go on and on about his career but I will go on record to say that at his pinnacle years he was clearly the best. I was fortunate to meet him at a local amateur boxing show in 1986 where I was a referee for the kids. […]

Monthly Archives: January 2012

FIGHT CALENDAR for February 2012

By David Martinez | Published: January 28, 2012

  ( stay posted every month to  David Martinez Boxing  for your complete boxing schedule ) WEDNESDAY / February 1, 2012   Location: Georgetown, Guyana Hector Camacho vs. Andrew Lewis (Junior Middleweights)  FRIDAY / February 3, 2012 / ESPN2 Location: Las Vegas Edison Miranda vs. Isaac Chilemba (Light Heavyweights) Hylon Williams vs. Rances Barthelemy (Lightweights) [...]

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BOOK REVIEW

By admin | Published: January 25, 2012
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By Jim Amato / Senior Boxing Writer   I just read a book about a man who may be the best boxer to come out of my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. As an accomplished amateur he knocked out future world light heavyweight champion Joey Maxim. As a professional fighter he defeated some of the best [...]

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How High Should We Rate Riddick Bowe?

By admin | Published: January 19, 2012
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By Jim Amato / Senior Boxing Writer Hopefully the one time heavyweight champion of the world Riddick Bowe will never fight again. His post career problems have been well documented. The question now is, where does Bowe rank among the great heavyweights of all time? How would he have fared against Louis, Marciano, Frazier or [...]

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Happy Birthday ~ ALI

By admin | Published: January 16, 2012
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In rememberence of Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday this week, January 17, I am bringing back one of my favorite features on THE GREATEST that was part of a series I did for for this Web site. Here now, for your enjoyment, is that story. Happy Birthday Champ! Muhammad Ali   By David Martinez / Boxing HistorianThis is the last of [...]

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CARLOS ORTIZ vs. ESTEBAN DE JESUS

By admin | Published: January 14, 2012

By Jim Amato / Senior Boxing Writer How do they keep turning out such great fighters ? Jose Torres, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfred Benitez, Felix Trinidad and now Miguel Cotto. Puerto Rico has put their stamp on the fistic map! In the forty five years I’ve followed the great sport of boxing I’ve seen two lightweights that [...]

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FROM THE DESK OF: David Martinez / Boxing Historian

By admin | Published: January 10, 2012
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( Winter 2012 Edition ) On a quarterly basis, I always write to thank and acknowledge the people that make this website the success that it is. My producer is John Boitnott, the main person who is simply my right hand man with his professional expertise regarding this website. Other key people are: Bob Quackenbush [...]

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WEBSITE T-SHIRT

By admin | Published: January 7, 2012

Happy New Year and be sure to start off 2012 with your official  dmboxing.com  t-shirt. This product is blue short sleeve with website logo on back and small boxer imagine logo on front, with all sizes available: small (S), medium (M), large (L), extra large (XL), and double extra large (2XX). To purchase this attractive product, just send [...]

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FIGHT CALENDAR for January 2012

By admin | Published: January 6, 2012

( stay posted every month to  David Martinez Boxing  for your complete boxing schedule ) FRIDAY / January 6, 2012 (ESPN2) Location: Key West, Florida Dyah Davis vs. Alfonso Lopez (Super Middleweights) Steve Martinez vs. Denis Douglin (Junior Middleweights) FRIDAY / January 6,  2012 (Showtime) Location: Indio, CA Luis Ramos vs. Reymundo Beltran (Lightweights) Michael [...]

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“THE BEST OF 2011″

By admin | Published: January 2, 2012

My personal top choices in boxing for the year 2011 in the major categories By David Martinez / Boxing Historian FIGHTER OF THE YEAR: Andre Ward With two impressive one sided wins against Arthur Abraham ( May 14) and Carl Froch (Dec 17), Ward wins the coveted Super-Six Super Middleweight tournament. He stays undefeated (25-0) [...]

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