Tag: BOXERS

December 8, 1903: Joe Gans, the reigning lightweight (135 pounds) champion of the world, the first black man to win that title, and one of the sport’s greatest practitioners to that time, was shocked. Somehow, an unknown teen had just dominated him in a fifteen-round match in Boston, having hi...

Jack slammed the door and sat against it. He heard his father shouting up the stairs, “You have no future here! You aren’t my son!” Coming out hadn’t gone well. He’d known it wouldn’t. He heard stamping on the stairs. His door shook. The handle rattled up and d...