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.
By David Martinez / Boxing Historian Let me bring you a feature story that you will probably not read anywhere regarding, all together, the five best black heavyweights at the turn of the 20th century. I got the idea when I overheard some mutual friends talking about the best black baseball players that never got [...]
Rusty Rubin is a veteran boxing writer Been a strange holiday for this old guy and a lot of questions I have to answer. First, while I did not vote for the induction of Mike Tyson for the International Hall of Fame (not without a designation that he performed under the influence of performance enhancing [...]
By Jim Amato / Senior Boxing Writer There are certain boxers from my past that in retrospect would be champions today. One such boxer was tough enough to be nicknamed ” Bad “. He was Bennie Briscoe from Philadelphia and brother you better bet he was just that, ” Bad “. He was probably the most feared [...]
By David Martinez / Boxing Historian I have rated many fighters in many different divisions, eras, and ethnic groups. One of my first ranking features that I posted on this Web site (see Archives / August 2007 or Rankings on menu to view) was my view of the top ten heavyweights of all time (i.e.) [...]
For those of you that are on the west coast – this Saturday June 21 will be the next big boxing venue of interest, which is, the annual California Boxing Hall of Fame induction ceremonies 2008. The event will be held in the Los Angeles area at the Sportsmen’s Lodge, 12833 Ventura Blvd, Studio City, [...]
California Boxing Hall of Fame Joe Louis, who had more successful title defenses (25) than any other heavyweight champion, heads up a list of twenty five inductees who will be enshrined into the California Boxing Hall of Fame for the year 2008.
Induction Ceremonies 2007 By Ray Cerda Photos By George Garcia On Saturday, September 22nd, with a standing room only crowd, over 500 people crowded into the Sportsman Lodge in Studio City, California to pay tribute to the 2007 class of inductees into the California Boxing Hall of Fame. The class was packed with a very [...]
On June 4, 2007, I received a letter from the California Boxing Hall of Fame, President Don Fraser, that I would be inducted into the hall of fame on September 22 – the class of 2007. I am truly honored, and I consider it very special when you are recognized by your own peers for [...]