• 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. […]

Category Archives: Heavyweights

“World Colored Heavyweight Championship”

By David Martinez | Published: November 21, 2012

By David Martinez / Boxing Historian   Let me bring you a feature story that you will probably not read any where regarding, all together, the five best black heavyweights at the turn of the 20th century. I got the idea when I over heard some mutual friends talking about the best black baseball players [...]

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A Night of Heavyweights and Chavez Shows Improvement

By admin | Published: June 20, 2012

By Tom Donelson  (Member Boxing Writers Assc.) On NBC, it was a night of heavyweight beginning with Bryant Jennings facing Steve Collins. Collins came into the fight with only one knock out in his last fourteen victories after winning his first eleven fights by knockout.   The first round was a feeling out round as neither [...]

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Best Punchers ~ The Heavyweights

By David Martinez | Published: June 8, 2012

Here is my list of the 15 best punchers in the heavyweight division from the start of the Marquis of Queensberry era, (i.e.) 1892 to the present. A formula that I am using to help illustrate this for each boxer is to show their percentage of knockouts which is calculated by the number of wins [...]

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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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BOOK REVIEW ~ By Jim Amato / Senior Boxing Writer

By admin | Published: November 22, 2011
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Hard Luck: The Triumph And Tragedy Of “Irish” Jerry Quarry AUTHORS – Steve Springer and Blake Chavez FOREWORD by George Foreman I have always been a big fan of Jerry Quarry. He was a mainstay in the talent laden heavyweight division during the late 1960s and into the 70′s. His multitude of fans shared in [...]

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JOE FRAZIER / R.I.P.

By admin | Published: November 12, 2011
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 By David Martinez / Boxing Historian This past week boxing lost a great champion, Joe Frazier, who passed away after a brief battle with liver cancer at the age of 67.I will always remember Joe, and I am so blessed to have lived in his boxing era and to have witnessed his fights. He was [...]

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MIKE WEAVER : AN UNLIKELY CHAMPION

By admin | Published: October 16, 2011
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By Jim Amato / Senior Boxing Writer If I was to tell you there was once a heavyweight who lost his first professional fight by knockout. Also this heavyweight would actually lose half of his first dozen fights. If I told you he would go on to win a piece of the heavyweight crown and [...]

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Butch Lewis and the Spinks Brothers

By admin | Published: August 26, 2011
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Leon Spinks and David Martinez ( photo taken: October 15, 2004  ) By Tom Donelson ( Member of the Boxing Writers Association and International Boxing Research Organization ) Butch Lewis was a colorful promoter who learned his trade under Bob Arum and even promoted some of Ali’s fight with Arum but he was the man behind the Spinks [...]

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Klitschko wins the big one!

By admin | Published: July 5, 2011
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By Tom Donelson ( Member of Boxing Writers Association and International Boxing Research Organization )   It was suppose to be the big heavyweight fight of the past decade and the big test for Wladimir Klitschko over the past seven years. Instead, the fight ended with a whimper with little action and only in the [...]

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