In boxing, the granite-jawed Tex Cobb is best remembered for his bloody one-sided battle against Larry Holmes, a fight so ugly it made Howard Cosell vow on air to quit announcing boxing if the fight ...

Three primetime matches in November of 1982 led to death and injury. They may have also destroyed boxing as we once knew it. Thirty-five years ago, this month, professional boxing was rolling.

Remember the November 1982 heavyweight title bout between champion Larry Holmes and highly overmatched Randall “Tex” Cobb? It was a bloody, one-sided, 15-round fight won by Holmes that was a huge ...

“What the hell is this guy going to do to me? Hit me? You think I got all this scar tissue running into parked cars?” – Randall “Tex” Cobb before his 1982 bout with Larry Holmes. The year is 1982 and ...

Tex Cobb, the human punching bag who made a living by absorbing the blows of more skilled heavyweights, was once asked how long he would go on fighting. “As long as they’ve got the money,” he said, “I ...

California Democrat voters, for over twenty years, have inflicted unimaginable damage on the once great Golden State. Consider the gravity of the problem. Years ago, then-boxing heavyweight champion ...

In 1982, Howard Cosell turned his back on boxing. Today, the sport of boxing will welcome Cosell back as it opens the doors to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota to the biggest ...

The court vacated the verdict on the grounds of insufficient evidence and remanded it to the lower court for a judgment in favor of the magazine. Floyd Abrams, the well-known First Amendment attorney, ...

An appellate court overturned a federal jury’s libel award to a former professional boxer who said the magazine defamed him by writing that he helped fix a fight and used cocaine after the match. A ...

Remember the November 1982 heavyweight title bout between champion Larry Holmes and highly overmatched Randall “Tex” Cobb? It was a bloody, one-sided, 15-round fight won by Holmes that was a huge ...