r/boxing #Part--2

Masahiko "Fighting" Harada and Mike Tyson

Sandy Saddler and George Foreman

Muhammad Ali with a young fan

Muhammad Ali messing with Sonny Liston

Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali and Sammy Davis Jr.

Thomas Hearns and Mark Breland

Tyson Fury as a young amateur

MMA champion Fedor Emelianenko, Kostya Tszyu and Mike Tyson

Ken Buchanan and Emile Griffith training together in Central Park

Vicente Saldivar loses at the 1960 Olympics against Ernst Chervet. As a pro, Saldivar became a two time featherweight champion and entered the IBHOF in 1999.

Aaron Pryor stops Jose Fernandez

Jack Dempsey training with Rocky Marciano

Cleveland Williams and Bob Satterfield. Two of the biggest punchers of their era.

Roy Jones Jr. during a Nike photoshoot

Michael "Second to" Nunn in 1989. Middleweight champ, super middleweight and IBHOF member (2025).

"Fast" Eddie Hopson: Super featherweight champion.

Nigel Benn goes down against Anthony Logan. Benn got up and stopped Logan in the second round.

Nigel Benn prepares for Gerald McClellan

Muhammad Ali speaks to a 21-year-old Vietnam veteran attempting to commit suicide.

The Boston Tar Baby: Sam Langford

Sam Langford and bareknuckle heavyweight champion, Jem Mace

Sugar Ray Robinson outside his restaurant

Sylvester Stallone, Alexis Argüello and Wilfredo Gómez

"Sailor" Tom Sharkey: “There was hardly a week that I was not in a fight”

Joe Goosen: "The Ruelas brothers never worn shoes until they came to this country"

Antonio Tarver, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Zab Judah

Sonny Liston and George Foreman training

Frank Sinatra taking pictures for LIFE magazine during the Fight of the Century: Ali vs Frazier I

Elizabeth Taylor watching a fight between Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson

Troy Dorsey (left) with brothers Brian and Rodney. Dorsey became world champion in boxing, kickboxing and karate.

Marcos "El Chino" Maidana and Lucas Matthysse during their amateur days

Sandy Saddler greets Argentinian first lady, Eva Perón, while Archie Moore greets president, Juan Domingo Perón

Rudolph Valentino doing the makeup of his stunt double, Gene Tunney, on the set of “Son of the Sheik.” (1926)

Gene Tunney with Nobel Prize in Literature winner George Bernard Shaw.

Barney Ross comes home from serving as a Marine in the Pacific during WWII.

The Galaxy Twins: Khaosai and Khaokor

Andre Ward reacts the crowd gathered in his honor at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland

Muhammad Ali, Ike Williams, Kid Gavilan, Willie Pep, Jake LaMotta, Carmen Basilio, Archie Moore and Bob Foster on stage during the 1990 Boxing Hall of Fame Induction

Joe Louis and Jesse Owens

Muhammad Ali and Nicolino "El Intocable" Locche

"I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20" Jeff Fenech and trainer John Lewis

"Violent" Elmer Ray: "Battle royales being a fight game in which 10 men would be put into the ring and have an "all-against-all" throw-down until only one was left. Ray won 61"

Battling Siki: First African champion

Yoel Judah and his sons (Zab Judah bottom right)

Andy Cruz punches Robeisy Ramírez during an amateur fight. Three Olympic golds between them.

Harry Houdini cannot escape the hold of Benny Leonard and Jack Dempsey

80.000 fans watching the fight between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier

Bantamweight champion Raúl "Ratón" Macías, actress Verónica Loyo and Mexican superstar Pedro Infante

55.000 fans watching the fight between Raúl "Ratón" Macías and Olympic gold medalist, Nate Brooks

Miguel Canto "El Maestro", 15 title defenses at flyweight

Bekzat Sattarkhanov and Yermakhan Ibraimov are greeted in Kazakhstan after winning gold at the 2000 Olympics. Bekzat passed away that same year during new year's eve, he was 20.

Alexei Lezin: The only man with wins over Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko

Mark Breland sends Rodney Bowen through the ropes in final of the 1983 N.Y. Golden Gloves

Pascual Pérez drops Eddie Williams at the 1948 Olympics. Pascual won gold. As a pro he defended his flyweight title 9 times and entered the IBHOF in 1995.

Joe Louis with the Chicago Golden Gloves at light-heavyweight in 1939.

Joe Frazier walking down the street with the gloves he used to knockout Bob Foster.

"Baby Jake" Matlala and Nelson Mandela

Erik "Terrible" Morales: One of my last amateur fights

Eligio Sardiñas: Kid Chocolate

Óscar "Ringo" Bonavena and Nicolino "El Intocable" Locche

Carlos Monzón badly hurt against Bennie Briscoe

Virgil Hill (light-heavyweight and cruiserweight champ) vs Michael Nunn (middleweight and super-middlweight champ) at the Olympic trials

Khalid Rahilou (WBA light-welterweight champ) defeats kickboxing/muay thai legend, Ramon "Diamond" Dekkers for the World Kickboxing Association full contact title.

Wilfred Benítez (far right) during an amateur tournament. World title challenger Orlando Hernández (next to Benítez) says Benítez had to use a fake ID to compete

Mike Weaver: I was sparring with Ken (Norton) back in 1972, and he used to say “Here comes Hercules!” or “Hercules unleashed!”

Kenny Norton

Panamá Al Brown: First Latin American champion

Jack Dempsey and Harry Greb (+10.000 aura)

Marvin Hagler is a happy fighter after winning the 165 pound title at the 85th National AAU Championships.

David Reid wins Olympic gold in Atlanta with a final round stoppage against Alfredo Duvergel. He was behind on the scorecard 16-6.

Jaron Ennis (34-0, super welterweight champ), Shakur Stevenson (22-0, three division champ, Olympic silver) and Darmani Rock (17-1) during an amateur tournament.

"The Candyman" Kenny Gould walks towards the ring at the 1988 Seoul Olympics

Olympic champion Vyacheslav Lemeshev hanging out at the park

Cuban legend: Ángel Herrera Vera, double Olympic champion

Muhammad Ali and triple Olympic champion Teófilo Stevenson in La Habana. The Fight of the Century never happened despite offers of up to 5 million for Stevenson to turn pro

Prince Naseem Hamed and Herol "Bomber" Graham

Lionel Rose: Undisputed bantamweight champion. First Indigenous Australian to win a world title and first Indigenous Australian to be named Australian of the Year.

Galinho de Ouro: Éder Jofre and Pelé

"Mi Vida Loca" Johnny Tapia

Randall "Tex" Cobb

Aaron Pryor and Thomas Hearns during their amateur fight

Mike Tyson watches Edwin Rosario KO Juan Nazario

Mike Tyson and Matthew Saad Muhammad

Bruce Lee during an amateur tournament in Hong Kong

World amateur champion, Kelcie Banks, lays flat on his back after being upset in his Olympic debut by Regilio Tuur

Manny Pacquiao during his amateur days

Award-winning songwriter Rubén Blades and Salvador Sánchez

Marco Antonio Barrera and Julio César Chávez

Albert Selimov from Dagestan, Russia, defeats Vasyl Lomachenko (396-1)

Emile Griffith after training

Super-flyweight champion Jiro Watanabe with his karate gear. There's claims that he was a better karateka than boxer.

Fredia Gibbs: The Most Dangerous Woman in the World

Julian "The Hawk" Jackson and his trainer Fermin Corneiro

Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth

Naoya Inoue as an amateur

Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin

Riddick Bowe and Michael Bentt stand with trainer George Washington after winning the N.Y. Golden Gloves.

Harry Mallin. The only double Olympic champion who never lost a fight. He had over 300 wins.

1960 U.S. Olympic gold medalists: Muhammad Ali, Eddie Crook Jr. and Wilbert McClure.

Triple Olympic gold medalist Félix Savón loses by knockout to Juan Carlos Delis in Cuba.

Max Schmeling and Joe Louis

Lennox Lewis: "My mum was my first coach in life and Arnie Boehm was my first coach in boxing".

Lennox Lewis training for the 1988 Olympics.

Nino Benvenuti and waterpolo champion Giancarlo Guerrini at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

Jack Johnson looks at middleweight champion Stanley Ketchel. They agreed to go light until Ketchel dropped Johnson in the 12th. "I thought I killed him." Johnson would later say.

Old Timers gather to honor Jim Jeffries. Front row: Tommy Ryan, Ad Wolgast, Jeffries, Billy Papke, Al McCoy.

Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali

Howard Davis Jr. and Sugar Ray Leonard show their gold medals from the 1976 Olympics.

"No man is a hero in his own hometown," says the old saw. Judge for yourself as Olympic boxing champion Howard Davis, wearing his Olympic gold medal, is mobbed by youngsters.

Country singer Waylon Jennings and Muhammad Ali (holding Shooter Jennings).

Muhammad Ali in the training camp of Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson.

Floyd Pattersson and Ingemar Johansson pictured jogging together in Stockholm in 1981.

1. Marcel Cerdan with his mistress, France's greatest singer Édith Piaf. 2. Cerdan visits Sugar Ray Robinson in August, 1949. 3. Ray attends Cerdan's funeral two months later.

Muhammad Ali in camp while Stepin Fetchit, Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis watch

1984 U.S. Olympians: Tyrell Biggs, Meldrick Taylor, Mark Breland, Pernell Whitaker and Evander Holyfield

Rocky Graziano watching Rocky Marciano train

The Barbados Demon: Joe Walcott

Teófimo López during an amateur fight

Mr. T, former bodyguard of Michael "Second to" Nunn

Mr. T in the corner of Johnny "Mi Vida Loca" Tapia

Thomas Hearns shadowboxing

Konstantin Tszyu

Jorge Linares says Edwin Valero was a problematic person since they were young

Terence Crawford squares up against the statue of Joe Gans

Ezzard Charles and Floyd Patterson

Stanley Ketchel "The Michigan Assassin"

Bob Foster knocks out Mike Quarry

David Haye visits the gym of a young Daniel Dubois

Future U.S. Olympians: Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Zahir Raheem

Jack Dempsey signs the contract to fight #1 contender Harry Willis. Promoters ended up cancelling the fight due the risk of "The Black Panther" becoming champion.

Welterweight champion Johnny "Honey Boy" Bratton

"I never hated a guy in the ring as much as Graziano. I just couldn't stand the thought of a club fighter like him, a brawler, taking the title from me". Tony Zale