It’s probably a safe bet that if you’re not a pretty strong boxing fan, the name Ingemar Johansson will escape you. He’s mostly forgotten today, but nearly 60 years ago he was more than a sports star.

Mike Tyson, of Brooklyn, New York, is a former heavyweight lineal champion known as "The Baddest Man on the Planet." Tyson, the youngest man to ever win a heavyweight title, retired in 2005, but has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For much of his career, boxing great Muhammad Ali was convinced that his brain wouldn’t be affected by the thousands of powerful, ...

Oleksandr Usyk is set to earn a reported $132M in his bout with British fighter Daniel Dubois, one of the largest purses in boxing history. Photos from Usyk's childhood and career chart his rise from ...

Perhaps nobody embodies the famous boxing idiom coined by Muhammad Ali of “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” than Pernell Whitaker. Able to float across the canvas and evade punches with ...

Seniesa "Super Bad" Estrada, of Los Angeles, is a former undisputed strawweight world champion. In 2020, Estrada scored a seven-second KO of Miranda Adkins, a feat that still remains the quickest KO ...

Ryan Garcia, of Victorville, California, now living in Los Angeles, is a former WBC interim lightweight champion and one of the best young talents in boxing. Garcia is also one of the most popular ...

Jaime Munguia is a former junior middleweight champion with 44 victories and 2 losses.

Edgar Berlanga, of Brooklyn, New York, is a super middleweight challenger. After a successful amateur career with more than 160 fights, Berlanga started his professional career in April 2016, and by ...

Tyson Fury is a former heavyweight lineal champion and the former WBC heavyweight champion.