Standing up straight with thin gloves on their hands two boxers strutted around a ring, cuffed each other in the face, in the belly, over the heart. One was Battling Nelson, lightweight champion of ...

Did Ad Wolgast take it in the shorts at the Milwaukee Auditorium 100 years ago this month? That's the question - literally and figuratively - that still hangs over one of the most famous events in ...

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Even at 61, the broken-nosed, greying little battler was more than a match for most men. It took two husky hospital attendants to handle him when they decided to get him under control. He got a ...