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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, […]

    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

  Archie Moore fought for the heavyweight championship of the world for the second time on November 30, 1956, at Chicago Stadium in Chicago. It was for the vacant title left open when Rocky Marciano announced his retirement on April 27 of that same year. Floyd Patterson was his opponent, and he stopped Archie in

Archie returned to ring after the loss to Marciano on February 20, 1956 with a first round knockout of Howard King in San Francisco. In just one week. Moore knocked out Bob Dunlap at the San Diego Arena. In less than three weeks, he was in Hollywood, California, and won a ten round decision over

    At now 38 years of age, Archie Moore went into 1952 seeking a world championship fight. His first bout of the year was a rematch win over Harold Johnson in ten rounds on January 29. He then decisioned Jimmy Slade on February 27, and knocked out Bob Dunlap in six rounds three months

Archie Moore was born Archibald Lee Wright on December 13, 1913 in Benoit, Mississippi. A troubled youth led to a three-year stay at a reform school, but was released for good behavior after twenty-two months. In 1933, he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, where he began training to become a boxer. His early career is

  After losing to Gene Fullmer for the second time in a row on March 4, 1961, most of the boxing world was urging Ray to retire. Robinson had no choice but to continue on, simply because he was broke. When Ray did return to the ring on September 25, 1961 in Detroit against a

 Ray Robinson traveled to the Boston Garden on January 22, 1960 to defend his middleweight crown against a local boxer named Paul Pender. The bout was an evenly matched fight, which saw Pender win a split-decision 15 round victory. Looking back, I don’t know why they would give the nod to an unknown, and take

   After Ray regained the middleweight title from Gene Fullmer on May 1, 1957, he traveled to Yankee Stadium four months later to take on the challenge of Carmen Basilio. Basilio won a close, split 15 round decision in Ring Magazine’s ‘Fight of the Year.’ Six months later, Sugar Ray avenged the loss at Chicago

  After going to Europe to tap dance in revues, Sugar Ray returned to the ring on January 5, 1955 against Joe Rindone at Olympia Stadium in Detroit, Michigan. Ray won with a sixth round knockout in the first fight on his comeback quest to regain the middleweight crown. Ray suffered a huge setback when