• Peter Jackson

    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: History

What Next For Boxing?

By admin | Published: May 11, 2013

By Tom Donelson / Member Boxing Writers Association   Boxing is one of those sports that seem forever on its death bed only to rise again and certainly 2012 was a good year and so far 2013 have seen some classic bouts with a whole new generation of fighters making their marks.  The question is [...]

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“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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Boxing and Ohio

By admin | Published: October 22, 2012

                           By Jim Amato                    Senior Boxing Writer             The history of great boxers to come out of the fine state of Ohio is rich and glorious. Many came well before my time. Jimmy Bivins and Johnny Risko. Joey Maxim, Paul Pirrone and the great Ezzard Charles. Need I go on?             In my time that stretches [...]

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DM Boxing Classifieds

By David Martinez | Published: September 27, 2012

FOR SALE: My friend, Joey Olmos, the former Chief Inspector of the California State Athletic Commission, is selling boxing statues. The statues are of various boxers and highlighted by a statue of John L. Sullivan (4′ tall / 150 pounds). These are unique items from his collection for the avid collector. If interested, and on [...]

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Peter Jackson

By David Martinez | Published: August 24, 2012

                                 By David Martinez / Boxing Historian I agree with most boxing historians before me, that had Peter Jackson been born white, he would have been heavyweight champion in the John L. Sullivan era. In the late 1800′s Jackson never received a world title bout because of Sullivan’s refusal to fight black fighters, so racial [...]

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The Olympic Auditorium: A Look Back at a Grand Venue (Part 2 of 2)

By admin | Published: August 16, 2012

by Bob Quackenbush / dmboxing.com   Though boxing was the sport that put the Olympic Auditorium on the map, legions of young fans in the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s remember this place as the hallowed ground of Championship Wrestling.  Throughout the 1930’s, matches were held there regularly; but with the growth of television, later wrestlers [...]

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The Olympic Auditorium: A Look Back at a Grand Venue (Part 1 of 2)

By admin | Published: August 8, 2012

by Bob Quackenbush / dmboxing.com In the world of championship boxing, the arenas which host the bouts quite often become nearly as famous as the warriors which graced their canvas stages.  Those which come to mind are legendary venues such as Madison Square Garden in New York City, Cobo Arena in Detroit, the Blue Horizon [...]

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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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Chacon vs. Lopez ~ Anniversary

By David Martinez | Published: May 18, 2012

The date was May 24, 1974 when Bobby “Schoolboy”  Chacon and Danny “Little Red” Lopez met in the ring for a long awaited and most anticipated bout between two Southern California rising stars. I was there that night ringside and sitting next to me was HBO Real Sports host Bryant Gumbel – who at that time was a [...]

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Eddie Perkins ~ R.I.P.

By David Martinez | Published: May 15, 2012

In the fifty years I have been connected to boxing, I have been blessed to have met some wonderful people in the sport and Eddie Perkins is one of those wonderful people. Eddie passed away on the evening of May 10, 2012 at his home surrounded by family; he was 75. I had the esteemed [...]

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