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History buff? Welcome to heaven

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Links to each of the following historical boxing articles can be found right now in "The History Library" at the largest & most-complete boxing site on the Internet, www.ringsideboxingshow.com.

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THE HISTORY LIBRARY
The Onion Picker: Carmen Basilio and boxing in the '50s [Gordon Marino, 1-1-08]
Iran Barkley's tumble from glory to homelessness [New York Post]
Down goes Frazier! 'The Sunshine Showdown' [Christopher James Shelton]
Frankie Carbo keeps a promise, Blinky gets a payoff [Dan Parker]
The man the system could not beat [Martin Kane]
Part I: The University of Eighth Avenue [A.J. Liebling]
Part II: The University of Eighth Avenue [A.J. Liebling]
Black Hamlet of the Heavyweights [Finis Farr]
The Invisible Fighter [Gilbert Rogan]
The bare-knuckle legacy of boxing [Mitchell Rawson]
Junior Jones recalls facing Barrera [Percy Crawford]
Sharkey-Corbett: A battle of unbeatens [Christopher James Shelton]
Carlos Monzon: A glamorous but tragic life [Michael Rosenthal]
Buster Mathis Jr. recalls facing Tyson [Percy Crawford]
Gene Tunney: An erudite champion [George Kimball]
Clever, classy Conn fell late against Joe Louis [Sam Gregory]
Graziano & Zale, vastly different, are forever linked [Sam Gregory]
Tommy Loughran: A stylish light heavyweight king [Sam Gregory}
Marciano Revisited: Part One [Thomas Hauser]
The life and death of Rocky Marciano [John Cameron]
Happy birthday Rocky Marciano [John Cameron]
Lavern Roach vs. Georgie Small, 1950 [Bad Left Hook]
Foreman-Quarry: What a fight it could have been [Jim Amato]
Where are they now? Milton McCrory [Shawn Murphy]
Highlights, lowlights of the past decade [Sports Illustrated]
Angelo Dundee: 'The best I've trained' [Doug Fischer]
James 'Quick' Tillis: Memories of a Near-Miss Kid [Lyle Fitzsimmons]
The original 'Fight of the Century' [Sam Gregory]
'Cinderella Man,' a 10-1 underdog, stuns Baer [Sam Gregory]
Sugar' Ray Leonard: Better amateur or pro? [Ken Hissner]
200 years ago ... without gloves [Christopher James Shelton]
Where are they now? 'Caveman' Lee [Shawn Murphy]
Strange Days: The Johnny Saxton story [Carlos Acevedo]
Ali: The greatest, but also the toughest [Graham Houston]
Documentary relives night Seldon's life changed [David Weinberg]
Greatness eluded Brooklyn's Leon Taylor [Sports Illustrated]
Boston's five greatest boxers [Colin Linneweber]
Tribute to a bare-knuckle legend [Irish Independent]
Unlikely tale of the playwrite and the pugilist [Irish Times]
Boxing's most influential: Nos. 1-50 [Kevin Iole]
Boxing's 100 most influential: Nos. 51-100 [Kevin Iole]
Celebrating Ali [Louisville Courier-Journal]
Ron Lyle: 'You can't do it for the money' [Percy Crawford]
Johnny Owens' death still painful after 30 years [BBC]
Johnny Owen's fatal final fight [Neil Prior]
'Liston and Ali' a worthy read [Thomas Hauser]
Mike Tyson on sex, drugs, spirituality [Sports Illustrated]
Farewell to boxing legend Art Hernandez [Pete Ehrmann]
Dokes still dynamite to Akron fans [Akron Beacon Journal]
Chasing Jack Chase, Part I: The Dead End Kid [Springs Toledo]
Chasing Jack Chase, Part 2: A Candle in the Glove [Springs Toledo]
Chasing Jack Chase, Part III: Unredeemed [Springs Toledo]
Chasing Jack Chase, Part 4: Californ-I-Am [Springs Toledo]
Chasing Jack Chase, Part 5: Fade to Black [Springs Toledo]
Legendary Gleason's Gym goes the distance [Reuters]
The mysterious case of undefeated Terry Marsh [Ken Hissner]
A century later, Joe Gans gets his due [Baltimore Sun]
Rocky Marciano: The Slippery Slugger [Ted Spoon]
Mac Foster was a champ for what he gave us [Fresno Bee]
10 fights fans never got from De La Hoya [Ben Thompson]
Buster Mathis faced the best during golden era [Mike Dunn, 7-11-10]
Johnson vs. Jeffries, the 100th anniversary [Christopher James Shelton]
Johnson-Jeffries: A flashpoint in U.S. race relations [The Ring]
Race relations: 100 years after 'The Fight of the Century' [San Francisco Chronicle]
No single event can compare today to Johnson-Jeffries [New York Daily News]
Tex Rickard brought famous fight to Reno [Reno Gazette-Journal]
The history of boxing's gold medal winners [Ken Hissner, 6-24-10]
Where are they now? Carlos Palomino [The Sweet Science]
Bowe's life since his peak has been full of loss [Washington Post, 7-5-10]
Should have been but never was: Cuevas vs. Palomino [Jim Amato, 6-24-10]
Marvis Frazier: No regrets [William Dettloff]
San Francisco was once boxing's hub [The Ring, 6-18-10]
Mosley-De La Hoya I, a classic encounter [Tom Gray, 6-15-10]
Cosell was often bigger than fighters, themselves [Michael Rosenthal, 6-12-10]
Aaron Pryor finds peace outside the ring [Dayton Daily News]
Holmes & Marciano: Underappreciated vs. beloved [Colin Linneweber, 6-14-10]
Sugar Ray's Montreal memories still good as gold [Dave Spencer, 6-10-10]
Edre Jofre tops all-time bantamweight survey [East Side Boxing, 6-13-10]
Larry Holmes: "Alive and enjoying it" [Colin Linneweber, 6-8-10]
Brooklyn College: Boxing Mecca [Wall Street Journal, 6-8-10]
The 10 greatest KOs in boxing history [Colin Linneweber, 6-19-10]
Joe Frazier still smokin' on his 66th birthday [Robin Leach, 1-18-10]
Kilbane vs. Kilbane: Boxing bout stirred fighting spirit in Canton [Gary Brown, 1-18-10]
McGuigan recalls his 1985 win over Eusebio Pedroza [saddoboxing.com, 6-19-10]
Mercante Jr. walks in dad's huge footsteps [Robert Mladnich, 1-18-10]
Murphy Griffin, Mancini's trainer, dies at 88 [Fox Sports, 1-22-10]
The Third God of War: Henry Armstrong [Springs Toledo, 2-8-10]
Holmes, Frazier recall facing Ali [Luaine Lee, 2-9-10]
Upset specials: Douglas over Tyson is tops [Kevin Iole, 2-10-10]
Ten boxers praise old foe Ali [Bill Brownstein, 2-12-10]
Buster Douglas exposed the Tyson lie [Kevin Mitchell, 2-12-10]
Frazier-Ellis was a must-win for 'Smokin' Joe' [Frank Lotierzo, 2-16-10]
Where have the great heavyweights gone? [Bill Gallo, 2-11-10]
Philadelphia trainer Al ennell dies [John F. Morrison, 2-22-10]
Ex-champ Paul Banke battles on after AIDS [Jerry Crowe, 3-1-10]
Jerry Quarry knew his punches, poetry [Herb Benham, 3-19-10]
Harry Carpenter, voice of BBC boxing, dies at 84 [BBC, 3-22-10]
'Facing Ali' a film that gets it right [Stanley Crouch, 4-5-10]
Lorraine Chargrin earned her place in boxing [Jim Jenkins, 4-8-10]
The best ever? Sugar Ray Robinson [Rick Brown, 4-8-10]
Mercante counts as one of all-time greatest [Bill Gallo, 4-13-10]
Life deals nasty blows to George Chuvalo [Jack Knox, 4-17-10]
Heavyweight history, Part One, with Emanuel Steward [Geoffrey Ciani, 4-22-10]
Heavyweight history, Part Two, with Emanuel Steward [Geoffrey Ciani, 4-22-10]
Heavyweight history, Part Three, with Emanuel Steward [Geoffrey Ciani, 4-22-10]
Muhammad Ali had no quarrel with Viet Cong [USA Today, 4-28-10]
Spider Kelly was a Derry hero [Derry Journal, 5-11-10]
How greatness eluded heavyweight Greg Page [Pavel Yakoviev, 5-12-10]
Pain for Love: A tribute to Diego Corrales [13thround.com, 5-7-10]
Interview with Goody Petronelli, Hagler's trainer [Pavel Yakovlev, 5-29-10]
Where are they now? Johnny Bumphus [Shawn Murphy, 5-25-10]
Lionel Rose can't speak, but he can laugh and cry [Ron Reed, 6-8-10]
Ali-Norton, through Ed Schuyler's eyes [Lee Groves, 6-5-10]
When ballpark fights ruled boxing [Don Stradley, 6-1-10]
Jim Watt vs. Howard Davis, 30 years later [William Dettloff, 6-6-10]
Where are they now? Paul Vaden [The Sweet Science]
Hall of Fame Friday: Ezzard Charles [The Ring, 6-21-10]
Hall of Fame Friday: Joey Giardello [The Ring, 6-27-10]
Five greatest Boston boxers of all time [Colin Linneweber, 6-24-10]
Leon Spinks: 'I just want to be Leon!' [Ken Hissner, 6-21-10]
Sugar Ray Leonard: The Great Illusionist [East Side Boxing, 6-24-10]
The best of all time A to Z: Armstrong [The Ring]
The best of alltime A to Z: Burley [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Charles [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Duran [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Elorde [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Foreman [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Hagler [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Ibeabuchi [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Ketchel [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Louis [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Moore [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Napoles [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Olivares [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Pep [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Qawi [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Robinson [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Saddler [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Tunney [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Uzcudun [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Villa [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Walker [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Xeque [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Yarosz [The Ring]
The best of all time A to Z: Zale [The Ring]
Ezzard
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Could this become a sticky?
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I think they are under 'Timeless Boxing Articles'.

What a great website that looks, thanks for posting. Think I might be spending a bit of time there!
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good site, I've just read two articles on Carlos Monzon and one on Hagler vs Hearns, all good reads, thanks for sharing the link. :TU:
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Thank's for the link - brilliant site.
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Thanks, I even posted the link of this on my facebook wall for everyone to get a chance to look at this amazing site :box:
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