However, Holloway has fought at lightweight before, where he failed to win the interim title against Dustin Poirier in their ...

Max Holloway is feeling rejuvenated and energized ahead of his lightweight return at UFC 318. In the highly anticipated main event, Holloway will be taking on Dustin Poirier in a trilogy bout, which ...

1913 — James Rowe, who had won back-to-back Belmont Stake races in 1872-73 as a jockey, sets the record for the most number of Belmont Stakes wins by a trainer, eight, when he sends Prince Eugene to ...

1935 — Jim Braddock scores a 15-round unanimous decision over Max Baer in New York to win the world heavyweight title. 1953 — Ben Hogan wins the U.S. Open for the fourth time, with a six ...

Despite quitting boxing during The Great Depression to work as a longshoreman, and with his right hand seriously busted, Braddock would eventually return to the ring and in 1935 beat Max Baer for ...

The boxer who had dumped him on to the ring apron was 25-year-old Buddy Baer, baby brother of onetime Champion Max Baer.

His 72 wins by KO/TKO put him ahead of George Foreman, Joe Louis and Max Baer. Not that anyone believes that, of course. Not really.

However, old-timers, followers of the sweet science, and viewers of the film Cinderella Man (2005) all know that Max Sr. was boxing's heavyweight champion of the world for all of 364 days, from ...

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Klitschko held the World Boxing Organization title from 1999 to 2000, the Ring magazine title from 2004 to 2005, and the World Boxing Council title twice between 2004 and 2013.

Back Story Born Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. on December 4, 1937, in Oakland, California, Max Baer, Jr.’s parents were champion boxer Max Baer and Mary Ellen Sullivan.