Mike Casey
37 articles · Boxing.com
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Majestic Mike Gibbons: Master of the Feint
By Mike Casey
Just three years into his career, Gibbons caught the sometimes highly critical eye of a very significant spectator, Gentleman Jim Corbett? In his serene prime, when he could box with the sublime…
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Joe Frazier: Truly Alive at 205
By Mike Casey
Frazier is the guy who plays havoc with the minds of traditionalists and revisionists alike whenever they shuffle their all-time rankings? When the news was confirmed from the horse?s mouth that Smokin?…
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Temple of Mystery: The Mind of Freudian Floyd
By Mike Casey
Why was Patterson so quiet? Why was he so private? Where was the dynamism of Jack Dempsey, the color of Rocky Marciano? In June 1952, after failing to wrest the light heavyweight…
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Kid Lavigne: Grisly Souvenirs of a Bloody Career
By Mike Casey
The Kid spoke most humorously about the grisly souvenirs he collected and their deceptively positive effect on his well-being? When it comes to the great fights of all time, Ad Wolgast and…
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Gennady Golovkin Captures Boxing.com Fighter of the Year Award
By Mike Casey
Golovkin was the clear favorite of our readers and writers as he romped away from Roman Gonzalez, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Viktor Postol? Born in Kazakhstan and fighting out of Los Angeles,…
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Perpetual Motion: The Slashing Fists of Vicente Saldivar
By Mike Casey
A miniature powerhouse of a man with the upper body of a welterweight, Saldivar imposed his presence on opponents from the outset? Who can beat Vicente Saldivar? That was the question being…
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Gosh, Josh, You Were Pretty Good!
By Mike Casey
There is something about Adonis-like fighters that always makes us wonder if they will shatter like marble when seriously struck? Is Anthony Joshua another Frank Bruno? No, young Anthony would appear to…
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Strange Fruit on the Middleweight Tree
By Mike Casey
We shake our heads at such dreadful tragedies, gripped by a na?ve belief that such men are somehow ageless and invincible and will outlive us all? The middleweight division of boxing has…
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Sheriff Foster: The King with the Killer Punch
By Mike Casey
Life has finally shot the sheriff, but I don?t doubt that he will rest in peace and be fondly remembered? He was the deputy sheriff of the Albuquerque Police Department in New…
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Doug Jones: The Man Who Nearly Beat Cassius Clay
By Mike Casey
The determined and business-like Jones was very much his own man. He was never in awe of Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali or anyone else? Had it been playing on his mind for…
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How to Box in Cuba: The Methods and the Masters
By Mike Casey
When you examine the Cuban mentality you begin to quickly understand what makes Cuban fighters so exceptional? Before the revolution of 1959 when Fidel Castro swept to power, the beautiful island of…
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Philadelphia Jack: Quaker, Faker and Maestro
By Mike Casey
Arch faker or misunderstood genius? In Jack?s case, the answer would appear to be a tantalizing and befuddling combination of both! Our perception of famous people can sometimes be cruel and misplaced,…
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Roy Jones Jr.?s Greatness: Where Does He Rate?
By Mike Casey
Phenomenon or just a fast guy who got away with it in the time that was granted to him? Like beauty, it is in the eye of the beholder? Some years ago,…
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A Barrel of Talent: Duilio Loi
By Mike Casey
Duilio was an infernally difficult man to beat and lost just three of his 126 professional fights. Typically, he reversed all three defeats? Duilio Loi was built like a barrel and looked…
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Raging Meteor: Frank ?The Animal? Fletcher
By Mike Casey
How he soared through the ranks! It was all crash-bang-wallop, blood and guts, thrills and spills? Like a meteor nearing the end of its violent life, Philadelphia middleweight contender Frank ?The Animal?…
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Deep Waters: When Thad Went Thud
By Mike Casey
Jerry Quarry was a 7 to 5 underdog when he squared off with Thad Spencer on February 3, 1968 in Oakland? In the spring of 1966, everything was going right for heavyweight…
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Benny Leonard: Golden Talent from a Golden Age
By Mike Casey
Along with the great care and precision that Benny brought to his ringcraft was the essential nerve of the gambler? In his excellent book, The Arc of Boxing, my fellow historian Mike…
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Fearless: The Incredible Owen Moran
By Mike Casey
There was a special aura about the laconic youngster, whose cyclonic style of fighting was tempered by wonderfully subtle cleverness? The face stares out of the picture taken long ago, like that…
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Sonny, George and the Indelible Ali Stain
By Mike Casey
What must it be like when everyone tells you you?re unbeatable? Sonny and George heard that praise so many times that they came to believe it? A curious form of amnesia seems…
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Sailor Jack Sharkey: Don?t Give Up the Ship
By Mike Casey
Travelling back more than a hundred years to Tom?s time, we find that everything was of a more simplistic and brutal nature? ?The bigger they were, the better I liked it,? Sailor…