by Fox Doucette It’s Social Media Week here at Historical Fight Night—your columnist has had the pleasure of interacting with two of the four combatants in this week’s edition. James “Quick” Tillis, fighting the late Scott LeDoux in the co-feature, is a longtime Facebook friend, and Carlos Palomino, who takes on the Upstate Onion Farmer Carmen Basilio in the … [Read more...]
RIP Scott LeDoux (1949-2011), Popular Heavyweight Loses Battle with ALS
Former world heavyweight title challenger, Scott LeDoux, lost his battle with Lou Gehrig's Disease Thursday. The 62-year-old veteran fighter passed away in his home, surrounded by friends and family, after a three-year battle with the disease. In a career that spanned ten years, LeDoux shared the ring with George Foreman, Duane Bobick, Leon Spinks, Ken Norton,Ron Lyle, Mike … [Read more...]
Revisiting The Ring Magazine Scandal
Off in an apartment in Queens, New York, 27-year old underground boxing writer, Malcolm "Flash" Gordon, realized he was on to something bigger than big. Known as a "sewer mongrel" and "beatnik pothead with body odor to boot" by those boxing scoundrels he outed in his writings, Gordon was a fixture on the New York City boxing circuit. Standing out in front of Madison … [Read more...]