Ted Spoon

What The Fist Did For The Glove

Without the fist, the glove would be nothing. The past and present gloved scene you know and love is a result of what came before in the form of bare fisted fighting. You may not consider the latter relevant, but quite the opposite is true.

Jersey Joe & Jack Blackburn: Separated at Birth

Whether it’s a book, or television program, history continues to tell us that ‘Jersey’ Joe Walcott eventually completed his quest for gold just after Joe Louis sealed his place among the Heavyweight giants. Their finest triumphs have been well archiv...

Wiping up The Spilt Milk

KABOOM! reverberated around the Mandalay Bay arena when Lennox Lewis’ right hand flattened the then former undisputed Heavyweight champion, Hasim Rahman. The bills feature attraction had a lot of critics divided, but for me, the outcome was as expect...

There's No Smoke Without Frazier, Part 2

Dubbed “The Fight of the Century”, this was actually the third time such a title had been attached to a major boxing event, but this one promised to be everything the Johnson/Jeffries and Dempsey/Carpentier mismatches were not. Being televised to mil...

There’s No Smoke Without Frazier, Part 1

If you consider the self proclaimed greatest, Muhammad Ali #1 among all Heavyweight Champions, then where do you place Joe Frazier? I’m talking about the man who left hooked that ‘0’ off his record and drove him to the very brink of physical and ment...