I have always been intrigued with boxing trivia. This actually began back when I was a young kid in 1961. I would pick the minds of the older generation and ask questions about their era to educate myself. It’s now my pleasure to bring the boxing trivia format to my website www.dmboxing.com for everyone to enjoy. On a quarterly basis I post five (5) multiple choice questions – in March, June, September, and December – with the correct answers to follow by end of each posting month for your viewing.

David Martinez / Boxing Historian

1 – A former boxer that used the name Marty O’Brien, is the father of who?

a) Perry Como

b) Jackie Gleason

c) Ernest Borgnine 

d) Frank Sinatra — CORRECT ANSWER

2 – What great boxer fought these two brothers, Javier and Armando Muniz?

a) Thomas Hearns

b) Roberto Duran

c) Sugar Ray Leonard — CORRECT ANSWER

d) Wilfred Benitez

3 – In 1970, Carlos Monzon won the middleweight championship from who?

a) Nino Benvenuti — CORRECT ANSWER

b) Emile Griffith

c) Denny Moyer 

d) Jean-Claude Bouttier

4 – Evander Holyfield suffered his first knock down in his professional career by who?

a) Henry Tillman

b) Michael Dokes

c) Riddick Bowe

d) Bert Cooper — CORRECT ANSWER

5 – In the 1953 movie The Joe Louis Story, who played the role of Louis?

a) Sidney Poitier

b) James Edwards 

c) Coley Wallace – CORRECT ANSWER

d) James Earl Jones