My List of the Top 10 Boxing Referees
This is my list of the top 10 boxing referees of all-time.
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This is my list of the top 10 boxing referees of all-time.
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My list of my favorite All-Time Boxing Comebacks.
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Here is a list of my All-Time Favorite Boxing Announcing Teams.
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After the nightmare of the fix with the second Ali bout, Sonny Liston went into hiding for awhile. He took 14 months off from boxing, before traveling to Stockholm to fight a guy named Gerhard Zech on July 1, 1966. Sonny finished Zech in the seventh, and was back in the win column. A month
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After losing to Cassius Clay on February 25, 1965, it was not long after that a rematch was planned. Clay also changed his name to Muhammad Ali in the interim, and announced he was officially a Muslim, and a follower of Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. This did not endear him
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After Sonny easily disposed of Floyd Patterson in one round in September of 1962, a rematch was set for the following summer in Las Vegas. The July 22, 1963 bout would be held at the spanking new Las Vegas Convention Center, where many other big fights would be held as well. As far as
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Sonny Liston began the 1960’s in the ring on February 23 in Miami Beach against Howard King. Sonny put King on the canvas to end the 7th round, and the fight. Just a month later, Liston knocked out the tough veteran Cleveland Williams in Houston, Texas in two rounds. Only another month later saw Sonny
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Charles L. ‘Sonny’ Liston has no official birthday. It was estimated to be in the mid to late-twenties, but was recognized as 1930. He grew up in Arkansas, where youngest sister said that she was born in 1926, and had proof of it. That made Sonny’s birthdate more like 1925. He moved to St. Louis
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For many years, every sport had a Hall of Fame, except for boxing. I grew up in south Jersey, and had the privilege to visit the Halls of the three major sports, being baseball, football and basketball. I have been to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York four times,
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After his classic battle with Yvon Durelle on December 10, 1958, Archie Moore returned to the heavyweight division on March 9, 1959 in Odessa, Texas. It took Archie only three rounds to stop a professional wrestler named Sterling Davis. Five months later, he dropped back down to light heavyweight, and traveled back to
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