Everyone was wrong about Million Dollar Baby, it was an absolute dogshit movie, I hope everyone's having a great Monday 🥊

If more boxing fans were either curious enough about it or capable of even understanding, they'd see that a large portion of the sport's "behind the scenes" history is just a big game of telephone and a lot of it was complete bullshit.

Often I wonder if the time spent researching and essentially trying to teach others about what I've learned when it comes to boxing history is even worth the effort. The percentage of people simply wandering up like a fucking idiot and going "NUH UH" at everything I say just gets higher and higher.

one janitor or bus driver does more good work for humanity in a single day than every rich asshole collectively does in their entire lives

Catholics walking around with ashes on their foreheads all day is the exact same identical twin equal energy as hitting the club while still wearing your boxing media credential (which I have done). Fight me.

Muhammad Ali was reclassified from 1-Y to 1-A by the local draft board #OnThisDay in 1966. The draft status, Ali's response and the fallout all went down in history. Here I talk briefly about Ali and a perceived duty as it relates to other heavyweight champions.

It's a boxing history podcast and the title is self-explanatory. Are there other boxing history shows and podcasts? Sure. They're edited to fuck, but sure. We brush our teeth with this stuff. 📺 youtu.be/zPEAquDXpgg 🔊 knucklesandgloves.com

We keep losing fighters who made history. It's inevitable. We don't like it, but we'll do our best to eulogize some of them. 📺 youtu.be/a9HocEhaqDc 🔊 knucklesandgloves.com

This is the ideal boxing poster. You may not like it, but this is what peak boxing poster art looks like.

The great Muhammad Ali scored a bloody stoppage of Henry Cooper while defending the heavyweight championship with a 6th round TKO at Arsenal Football Stadium in London, England #OnThisDay in 1966.

Usually I don't even like boxing movies, because they rarely nail the tone, and the movies that actually do go for a somber or realistic approach make stupid crap up rather than draw from actual insane and ludicrously absurd history stories. "The Great White Hype" is a rare boxing flick I love 👇

I knew I was missing one of my KO Magazine issues. He should've asked first.

Starting to get what scientists are referring to as “boxing magazine lung”

Ernie Terrell, 1960s WBA heavyweight champion who was also a Golden Gloves champion and brother of singer Jean Terrell, was born in Belzoni, Mississippi #OnThisDay in 1935.

you know i keep that mf thang on me

No April Fool's joke here. Here's the new haul (many are duplicates) 🥊

"Big" George Foreman, former heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medalist, has passed away at the age of 76, according to news from his family. Rest well, George Foreman 👑

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to the fighting women who have inspired countless others inside the ring and out 🥊

I grow older, I collect more boxing magazines, but one truth remains: Don't ask for my attention if you don't ACTUALLY want it 😘😉

Happy 71st Birthday to Alfonso Zamora, hard-hitting 1970s bantamweight champion and 1972 Olympic silver medalist, who was born Alfonso Zamora Quiróz in Ciudad de México, México #OnThisDay in 1954.

Jackie Fields, 1920s and 30s two-time welterweight champion and 1924 Olympic gold medalist, was born Jacob Finkelstein in Chicago, Illinois #OnThisDay in 1908.

Really cool opportunity to contribute toward getting a really excellent boxing documentary into some U.S. and U.K. film festivals! That gravelly voice doing narrating is me, sure. But I've gotten a look at the doc and it's objectively awesome. ➡️ www.indiegogo.com/projects/blo...

Really cool opportunity to contribute toward getting a really excellent boxing documentary into some U.S. and U.K. film festivals! That gravelly voice doing narrating is me, sure. But I've gotten a look at the doc and it's objectively awesome. ➡️ www.indiegogo.com/projects/blo...

King "Sugar" Ray Robinson and his championship belts 👑

"Big" George Foreman sure loved his luxury cars.

Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and other stars gather for the Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Special in 1990. Other celebrities included Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Richard Pryor, Clint Eastwood, Dionne Warwick and Magic Johnson.

Thank goodness for Corey Erdman bringing these people back to earth with his commentating. Claressa is having an easy time countering and they just keep taking about Perkins’ power

That was hilarious. Lacy was trying to get back into the ring and Moore grabbed him back

Boxing media people going after the Black fighter but not the white one who did the exact same thing is really weird* *unless you view boxing media as a collection of stupidass racist meatballs, in which case it was incredibly predictable

As expected, venerable members of the boxing community dedicating hours to discrediting Jackie Tonawanda's hall of fame entrance years after her death on the basis of her being "a fraud" for a fudged record have nothing to say about Cat Davis, the white hall of fame lady who... fudged her record.

🗣 "[Sugar Ray Robinson] is the greatest I've ever seen in action. They will never get another one like him in the ring in 100 years. He had class all around." - Joe Louis

Benvidez threw after the bell first and Morrell responded. Stupidass deduction from the referee, it's that simple.

Cuba's first ever world champion Kid Chocolate and his predecessor Black Bill, who had the same trainer and manager, and who "The Keed" looked up to for several years 🇨🇺

Last few rounds, Benavidez's pressure and relentlessness is obviously getting to Morrell, who looks like he's finally succumbing to exhaustion from this kind of fight

Commentating is a bit too Benavidez-leaning imo. Morrell is doing very well in some of these sequences but you wouldn't really know it

🗣 "[Henry Armstrong] was a unique individual, one of the greatest fighters I ever saw. He fought three minutes every round. I saw him in most of his championship fights. He could be classed with the greatest fighters of all time." - Great boxing trainer Ray Arcel

"El Flaco Explosivo" Alexis Argüello poses with actor and director Clint Eastwood.

🗣 "I am a pioneer, you see. Those who come after me will get a lot more out of this. As far as money goes, I don't think I get what I deserve. I don't even know how much I'll get. I won't get what I deserve until society takes us seriously." - "Lady Tyger" Marian Trimiar

Trainer Emanuel Steward watches as heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis trains to face wily contender Andrew Golota in 1997.

Billy Bird, London welterweight who fought more than 350 times between 1920 and 1948, scoring 139 knockouts, which is currently thought to be the all-time record.

Floyd Patterson and George Chuvalo fought a savage "Fight of the Year" where Patterson took a close 12 round unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden in New York #OnThisDay in 1965.

Bob Foster climbed off the deck to make his first defense of the light heavyweight championship with a wild 1st round TKO of Frankie DePaula at Madison Square Garden in New York #OnThisDay in 1969.

Paul Pender put and end to the championship days of 38-year-old "Sugar" Ray Robinson with a 15 round split decision at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts #OnThisDay in 1960.

Mike Tyson defended the unified heavyweight title with a 4th round TKO of 38-year-old former champ Larry Holmes at the Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey #OnThisDay in 1988.

"Big" George Foreman scored a huge upset to win the heavyweight championship with a shocking 2nd round TKO of "Smokin'" Joe Frazier at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica #OnThisDay in 1973.

Happy 61st Birthday to Nigel Benn, aka "The Dark Destroyer," hard-swinging two-division WBO champion in the 1990s, who was born in Ilford, England #OnThisDay in 1964.

Rocky Marciano and Harry Matthews pose after signing to face one another in 1952, with the winner taking on heavyweight champion Jersey Joe Walcott. Marciano would flatten Matthews in two rounds, then score an all-time brutal knockout of Walcott to become the king of the heavyweights.

"Big" George Foreman was ranked 9th on a list of "Greatest Punchers of All Time" back in 2003. Where would you rank him? And how would Foreman do against today's heavyweights?

Had to update the collection recently. See anyone you recognize? 🥊

Rocky Graziano, heavy-swinging 1940s middleweight champion, was born Thomas Rocco Barbella in New York City, New York #OnThisDay in 1919.