• 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: Lightweights

Lightweight "Unification" Championship

By admin | Published: November 4, 2007

By David Martinez / Boxing Historian Last month fight fans were treated to, what I call, a very exciting “unification” title fight, and what has been brought to my attention is – many of you missed it. So let me personally take you back to “that” fight, October13, 2007, in Chicago, at the Sears Centre [...]

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MANDO RAMOS: The Youngest Lightweight Champion

By admin | Published: October 29, 2007

By David Martinez / Boxing Historian I first met Armando (Mando) Ramos in the fall of 1969, when I drove to Santa Monica to watch him train at the Surf Rider Hotel in his preparation to defend his Lightweight title against Yoshiaki Numata. What I saw was, not a fighter in serious training. Earlier that [...]

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The Greatest Lightweight

By admin | Published: September 30, 2007

By David Martinez / Boxing Historian Who was the greatest lightweight ever? To answer that question, and I have been asked this many times the same, my answer remains the same – there were actually two of them and in my life time I had the pleasure of able to see one of them – [...]

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