Tag: Sketches

By Eric Bottjer ROCKY RAMON, 74, Texas welterweight and early Sugar Ray Leonard pro opponent, died in November. Ramon was ...

By Eric Bottjer ANTHONY NELLEMS, 52, Indiana welterweight, died in February. Nellems won one of six fights in 1993, fighting ...

By Eric Bottjer RICHARD FABIAN, 70, Florida boxing man, passed in Tampa in August. Richard, a 2022 Florida Boxing Hall ...

By Eric Bottjer JAMES COOK, 66, London super-middleweight, died in June from bladder cancer. Cook, a native of Jamaica, was ...

By Eric Bottjer NINO BENVENUTI, 87, Italian boxing legend and former two-time middleweight champion, passed in May in Rome. The ...

By Eric Bottjer KENNY ADAMS, 84, famed trainer, passed in April of cancer in hospice in his adopted hometown of ...