Jimmy Bivins, a hard-luck heavyweight who was a top boxing contender of the 1940s and 1950s and whose later years were shadowed by neglect, died July 4 at a nursing home in Cleveland. He was 92. A ...

Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 24, 1950: Welterweight boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson is interviewed after arriving by train in Frankfurt for his Christmas night fight against Hans Stretz. At right are ...

When people discuss the problems with modern boxing matchmaking, the most common complaint is that the best fighters aren’t matched up against one another as regularly as they should be. In the ...