Muhammad Ali considered Marciano "the toughest". Mike Tyson's career is full of light and shade, as one of the most fearsome heavyweight champions, but also with marked ups and downs that led him to ...

In the history of boxing, few names are as revered as Larry Holmes and Rocky Marciano. Despite their very distinct ...

1953: Rocky Marciano, making his first defense of his heavyweight title, scored a first-round knockout at Chicago Stadium over Jersey Joe Walcott, the man Marciano dethroned in a 13th-round KO the ...

BROCKTON — For a "wax museum" school project, 9-year-old Zelly Perez studied hometown hero Rocky Marciano. She even played him in class, complete with an embroidered boxing robe her mom got on ...

LAS VEGAS — After scoring a technical knockout against Conor McGregor on Saturday night, Floyd Mayweather resisted taking jabs at critics who questioned the historical value of his victory at T ...

BROCKTON, Mass. -- It’s at least a 45-minute drive from his home in Plymouth, Mass., to his hometown of Brockton, a city in Boston’s south suburbs. The next birthday will be the 80th for Peter ...

On the night it happened, the title fight between Larry Holmes and Carl “The Truth” Williams was framed as potentially historic because it was one of the final hurdles on the path for Holmes ...