He was the boxing fanatic who punched well above his weight to become one of the undisputed champions of Irish sport and a multi-millionaire business giant to boot. Barney Eastwood who died yesterday ...

He was born in the Lower East Side of New York ,December 23 1909, Barnet David Rasofsky. Barnet would grow up in Chicago, dreaming of being a Talmudic Scholar and Hebrew teacher. Those dreams would ...

If Barney Ross hadn’t existed, Clifford Odets would have needed to invent him. Ross, born Dov-Ber Rasofsky, was the child of pious Eastern European Jewish immigrants who had settled in Chicago. His ...

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Royston Barney-Smith said that he "needed to step up to another gear" for Saturday's win against Danny Quartermaine. "Sugar Boy Roy" outclassed his opponent at the O2 Arena on the way to a unanimous ...

It’s going on half a century since I met my first sporting legend—and I’ll never forget the day. As a young reporter with the London Jewish Chronicle, I was sent to interview Barney Ross, arguably the ...

Boxing promoter and bookmaker Barney Eastwood has died at the age of 87. Eastwood, from Holywood, Co Down, died on Monday at the Ulster Hospital on the outskirts of Belfast after a period of illness.

BRITISH boxing great Lloyd Honeyghan rates Southampton's Matthew Barney as "an outstanding talent". Honeyghan is promoting Barney's Southern Area title defence at Elephant & Castle on Sunday against ...

There was definite tension in the air when British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion Carl Froch and his mandatory challenger Matthew Barney came head to head for the first time on Thursday ...