Jimmy Ellis vs Floyd Patterson 9/14/1968

Rick Farris writes: "Patterson-Ellis This fight was televised live in the U.S. and Floyd's decision loss, preventing him from regaing the title an unprecidented third time, remains the worst decision I have ever seen in a heavyweight title fight. For U.S. TV reasons, the bout was held in the dark early morning hours, outdoors while snowing. I still recall both boxers entering the ring wearing ski pants. -Rick

John Bardelli writes: Rick ... Patterson beat a good fighter in Jimmy Ellis ... beat him coming and going. Beat him bad. Ellis hit Patterson with some wicked right hands and Patterson's jaw took all that Ellis had to offer and Patterson gave five times what Ellis delivered. I felt so bad for Patterson after this fight .... it made me sick! This was a low point in boxing history ... a black eye for the sport! Here is the fight in seven parts ... it bears looking at. Patterson was a real credit to life ... let alone boxing.

Joe Louis vs Billy Conn I

Just to follow up a bit on the previous photo of Joe Louis and Billy Conn II, the following videos are of their first fight from June 18, 1941 at the Polo Grounds in New York.

Conn, the consummate boxer was outboxing the harder hitting Louis and was winning the fight. It seemed a foregone conclusion until.... As my father stated so simply "Conn got a little too cute and Louis knocked him out". Louis was a finisher, one of the best. He proved it that night. Louis knocked out Conn in the thirteenth round.

The bottom video shows highlights of the fight up to the eleventh round and show Conn at his best. The top video shows the knockout and has commentary by Bert Sugar. Both are worth a look.

Exclusive Interview With "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler

This interview is from ESPN. Marvin Hagler reflects on his November 10, 1983 title fight with Roberto Duran. Hagler was defending his middleweight title. Roberto Duran was and is my favorite fighter. Hagler is also one of my favorites and this was probably the only time I was looking for Hagler to lose. This was a great technical fight won by Hagler. I also posted a video of the fight in it's entirty. The 1980's was a great era for boxing, especially the middleweights, which, in addition to Hagler and Duran (Duran was actually a lightweight), included Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns, former champions Vito Antuofermo and Alan Minter, and to a lesser degree but still hard fighting guys like John "The Beast' Mugabi, Mustafa Hamsho and Juan Roldan. It was a great time to be a boxing fan.

Sugar Ray Robinson vs Rocky Castellani

Sugar Ray Robinson vs Rocky Castellani 

 June 22, 1955 Part I & II

You'll have to deal with the language barrier.

Alex Ramos

Outside The Lines: Still Standing - George Chuvalo

Howievision: USA Boxing Needs Changes