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Boxing fans might remember Michael Spinks best for lasting only 91 seconds against Mike Tyson in 1988, Spinks’ last fight. They might forget that he was the best light heavyweight of his era...

Junior middleweight Demetrius Hopkins fought Joshua Snyder on the Broner-DeMarco undercard on Saturday, and RING photo-guru Naoki Fukuda captured an image that's, well... a little scary.

This is Hall of Famer Carmen Basilio before and after he lost his middleweight title to Sugar Ray Robinson on March 25, 1958, in Chicago...

Sugar Ray Robinson was only 21 when this photo was taken on May 28, 1942, the day he fought Marty Servo at Madison Square Garden in New York City...

Here, we see the demise of Billy Conn in his first fight against Joe Louis in 1941. Conn was winning until he became overly aggressive and was stopped in the 13th round...

Roland LaStarza, a top heavyweight in the late 1940s and '50s, gave Rocky Marciano all he could handle in a split-decision loss in 1950. The rematch three years later in New York ended more emphatically...

The name John L. Sullivan probably is familiar to the average sports fan. The face? Maybe not. Here is a young and very dapper version of the great John L., most likely in the mid-1880s...

Mike Tyson was a monster at his best, as he proved against then-unbeaten former heavyweight champ Michael Spinks in Atlantic City, N.J., in 1988...

Jimmy McLarnin and Tony Canzoneri had a two-fight welterweight series in 1936, Canzoneri winning the first by a unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden in New York...

RingTV.com's ongoing feature -- FROM THE ARCHIVE -- in which we pull rare and unusual photos from the magazine's vast collection and post them on the Web site.

Junior welterweights Lucas Matthysse and Olusegun Ajose hit the scales for their Showtime-televised title matchup on Saturday.