Tag Archives: hall of fame

“World Colored Heavyweight Championship”

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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 [...]

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In Rusty’s Corner (Opinion on Stallone/Tyson)

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 [...]

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