Gene Fulmer had no business beating the pound-for-pound greatest of all time, yet his unorthodox reverse cross guard turned ...

If boxing brothers Gene, Jay and Don Fullmer could see the brand-new Fullmer Legacy Center, Larry Fullmer thinks they’d be proud — and that he’s a little crazy. After bouncing around over the years ...

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SALT LAKE CITY — Gene Fullmer, a former middleweight boxing champion and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame whose 55 career victories included two wins over Sugar Ray Robinson, has died, ...

He was the classic pug, a jug-eared middleweight with a flat, stolid face, the thick torso and bulging shoulders of a heavyweight. Even so, Utah’s Gene Fullmer, 28, was no better than an 8-5 underdog ...

“Are you really a cannibal?” the reporter asked. “Yes,” replied Dick Tiger, white teeth gleaming wickedly in his walnut-colored face. “I ate up the governor of Nigeria because he was making the ...