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BROCKTON, Mass. -- It’s at least a 45-minute drive from his home in Plymouth, Mass., to his hometown of Brockton, a city in Boston’s south suburbs.
I n the late 1970S, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy and House Speaker Tip O’Neill were two of the most powerful people in national ...
The 27-year-old will be presented with a Briscoe Award by Philly Boxing History – run by John DiSanto – as the Philadelphia ...
Luke G. Williams ponders some mythical match-ups involving the Ukrainian, with expert insights from Usyk cornerman Russ Anber ...
Training in Brockton, Massachusetts, McBride followed in the footsteps of Rocky Marciano.
The University of Salford convened a Journalism and the Courts Symposium last week and it revealed a profession under pressure, with court reporting facing unprecedented challenges from social media ...
Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali (when his name was Cassius Clay), Jack Dempsey, Floyd Patterson, Joe Louis, George Foreman: All of them and more trained there.
Meredith accepted the role for a salary of $20,000, and the Main Street Gym was an obvious choice for Stallone, Chartoff, coproducer Irwin Winkler, and director John Avildsen as an essential location ...
During an in-ring interview after the fight, when Showtime’s Jim Gray asked Mayweather about improving to 50-0, he sidestepped the question before eventually saying, “Rocky Marciano is a legend.
"His full story's never been told," hard-hitting Brockton author Dave Wedge said of Marvelous Marvin Hagler. What Wedge ...
June 17 1954 — Rocky Marciano scores a 15-round unanimous decision over Ezzard Charles at New York to retain the world heavyweight title. 1960 — Ted Williams hit his 500th HR.