The names Sugar Shane Mosley and Oscar De La Hoya will be forever linked in boxing. Their story began when the two squared off as amateurs. The favored Mosley was twelve, Oscar a year younger. Mosley won handily that evening, a harbinger of things to come.  

“Irish” John Duddy obliterated Shelby Pudwill in one round on the eve of St. Patty’s Day at Madison Square Garden, sending a sell-out crowd into a frenzy, and boosting his stock, with the tongue-twisting title of WBC Continental Americas Middleweight Champion.  

Sam McVey was one of the great black heavyweights of the nineteen 00\'s and teens, which included Jack Johnson, Joe Jeannette, Sam Langford, and Harry Wills.