Final Bell

Final Bell 2024

Willie Limond – The ex-British and Commonwealth light-welterweight champion died on April 15, 2024, at age 45. He was born ...

Final Bell 2023

Shoji Tsujimoto - The 75-year-old former Japanese welterweight champ passed away on December 23, 2023. Having scored an excellent amateur ...

RIP Ernie “Big E” Brown

Ernest Darick Brown of Zion, Illinois, passed away on Tuesday, December 12, 2023, at the age of 67. Ernie "Big ...

RIP Dwaine Simpson

Dwaine Simpson January 26, 1935 – August 3, 2023 ********* IBRO's Dwaine Simpson, who ran the Miami Dade County Parks ...

RIP Michael Hunnicutt

Michael Hunnicutt passed away unexpectedly on February 23, 2023, at the age of 68. Michael was a brilliant boxing analyst ...

The Final Bell Rang for Chicago Boxing Historian J.J. Johnston
on November 4, 2022

By Doug Cavanaugh (With comments by Dan Cuoco, DS Cogswell, and Mike Silver)I received word that the Final Bell rang ...

RIP Luckett Davis

Luckett Davis October 16, 1932 – December 1, 2022 Luckett Vanderford Davis, age 90, passed away December 1, 2022. He ...

My Memories of GorDoom: Stephen Gordon by Thomas Gerbasi

My Memories of GorDoom: Stephen Gordon By Thomas Gerbasi It may have been a few weeks into knowing Stephen Gordon ...

Gino Arilotta November 7, 1930 – October 7, 2022

Gino Arilotta November 7, 1930 – October 7, 2022 Gino Arilotta of the IBRO passed away on October 7, 2022, ...

Rest in Peace Eder Jofre

Rest in Peace Eder Jofre, Former Bantamweight and Featherweight Champion and Hall of Fame Inductee By Chris Smith Eder Jofre, ...

Gaspar Ortega Passes at Age 86

Gaspar Ortega (October 31, 1935 – December 13, 2021) By Henry Hascup Gaspar Ortega passed away In Naples, Florida, on ...

Steve Lott (1950 – 2021)

Steven Lott  (January 17, 1950-November 6, 2021) Las Vegas Boxing Hall of Fame founder and board of director and boxing ...

A Snapshot of Hall of Fame Boxer Tony DeMarco Who Has Passed Away at Age 89

By Arne K. Lang (Courtesy of The Sweet Science, October 11, 2021) The Sweet Science Former world welterweight champion Tony ...

RIP Ron Ross

RON ROSS 1932-2020 Ron Ross succumbed to the coronavirus on March 23, 2020, at a hospital in Boca Raton, Florida ...

Pete Ehrmann 1950-2019

Pete Ehrmann Pete Ehrmann 1950-2019 by Bill Schutte I am very sorry to have to pass along the news that ...

Billy Joiner May 6, 1938 – June 8, 2019

BILLY JOINER MAY 6, 1938 – JUNE 8, 2019 by Steve Canton Former amateur standout and pro heavyweight contender Billy ...

RIP Harold Lederman

Harold Lederman June 26, 1940 - May 11, 2019   The IBRO lost a valuable member with the passing of Harold ...

RIP Joey Giambra

Former Great Middleweight Contender Passes At The Age Of 87 By Bobby Franklin To realize what a master boxer Joey ...

RIP Stefan Redl

Stefan Redl Passes at age 84 Former 1950s-1960s welterweight Stefan Redl died on February 4, 2018 at the age of ...

RIP Ellsworth (Spider) Webb

Former 1950s and 1960s middleweight contender Ellsworth (Spider) Webb passed away in Tulsa, Oklahoma on November 23, 2017 at the ...

Herb Weissblum

HERBERT WEISSBLUM - Of Whidbey Island, Washington, formerly of Winchester, Massachusetts died unexpectedly on December 26, 2017 at the age ...

Terry Downes B.E.M. – Man and Fighter

Terry Downes B.E.M. - Man and Fighter By Derek O'Dell Where to place Terry Downes in the array of British ...

RIP Jake LaMotta

Jake LaMotta - the former middleweight champion whose life in and out of the ring was depicted in the film ...

Muhammad Ali the Fighter: Speed, Stamina and Psychological Warfare

Muhammad Ali the Fighter: Speed, Stamina and Psychological Warfare The champ was despised and beloved but was a warrior for ...

The Wizard Is Gone

(Long-time boxing matchmaker, promoter, booking agent Johnny Bos passed away last weekend in Florida at the age of 61.  J ...

Ten-Count for Johnny Bos

Ten-Count for Johnny Bos By Robert Ecksel on May 12, 2013 "Boxing is a brutal form of entertainment because nobody ...

Karel de Vries Passed Away April 10, 2012

Karel de Vries December 27, 1922 – April 10, 2012   IBRO Boxing Historian and famed Marine photographer J. Karel ...

Laurence Fielding

Laurence Franklin Fielding, 84, of Falmouth, Virginia passed away on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. He was born August 26, 1924 ...

Paul Zabala

With a heavy heart, I inform you that Paul Zabala passed away on August 21, 2008. Paul joined IBRO in ...