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As junior welterweight champ Teófimo López gears up to defend against Shakur Stevenson, both fighters stand poised to add to the division's long history.
On this episode of the Knuckles and Gloves podcast, boxing historian Patrick Connor and fellow historian Aris Pina team up to go through the strange and unique history of the 140-pound division.
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Over the decades, various boxing publications have had articles or pieces that featured young, up-and-coming fighters. Often those fighters ended up becoming world champions and famous contenders, but sometimes they didn't at all.
On this episode of the Knuckles and Gloves podcast, boxing historian Patrick Connor and fellow historian Aris Pina team up to comb through a number of "New Faces" features from boxing magazines past. Some names you'll recognize, some you may not.
Every year, writers, pundits and a smattering of fans get together to vote inductees into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York. As usual, the only boxing history podcast with two IBHOF voters had to weigh in on the ballot, their picks and the inductees.
On this episode of the Knuckles and Gloves podcast, boxing historians Patrick Connor and Aris Pina welcome fellow historian and IBHOF voter Cliff Rold to the show for a chat about "GGG" Golovkin, Antonio Tarver, Nigel Benn and much more.
Boxing history and true crime overlap so much than a Venn Diagram of the two would look like a circle. Unfortunately boxing history is also filled with cases of fighters who just got unlucky or got hit by tragic fate.
Al Migliorato, 1970s and 80s heavyweight, was one such fighter.
On this episode of the Knuckles and Gloves podcast, boxing historian Patrick Connor and fellow historian Aris Pina remember the career, life and sad exit of Migliorato.