Thirty-five years ago this week, the paths of two wrecking machines crossed when Terry Norris obliterated John Mugabi inside a round to win his first junior middleweight title. Neither was destined to ...

Marvin Hagler, one of the greatest middleweight boxers in history, died March 13 aged 66. The American southpaw won the World Boxing Council world middleweight title against Briton Alan Minter in ...

August 2, 1980, Saturday a 20-year old boy walked into the ring of the Olympic Sports Complex in Moscow, as Uganda’s remaining hope for gold, actually the first since John Akii-Bua’s at Munich ‘72.

THE name John “The Beast†Mugabi is what comes to mind at the mention of Uganda at the 1980 Olympics. After the country’s boycott of the 1976 Montreal games, it took the welterweight’s fists to ...

Last week, BoxingScene.com's Keith Idec broke the news that former champion Jeison "Banana" Rosario (20-2-1) and former title challenger Erickson "The Hammer" Lubin (23-1) had agreed to terms for a ...

Boxing: John Mugabi won the World Boxing Council super welterweight title Saturday in Cergy-Pontoise, France, when champion Rene Jacquot twisted his left ankle in the first round and had to stop. It ...

A look back at the career of John 'The Beast' Mugabi. Mugabi rose from the poverty-stricken country of Uganda to become one of boxing's most exciting knockout artists of the mid-1980s, leading to a ...