Published April 10, 2013
Norman Johnson, the sensational Milwaukee lightweight who won the 1953 and 1954 Golden Gloves at 135 pounds, passed away last Friday about three weeks short of his 78th birthday.
Published April 6, 2013
Far be it from Bob Ranck to suggest that his participation in the 1953 Wisconsin Golden Gloves tournament was responsible for the attendance that is still the high-water mark in the history of the amateur boxing - an event whose 83rd annual run starts April 6 in Racine.
Published Dec. 8, 2012
Fifty-nine years ago this month a Milwaukee heavyweight boxer called "Long John" Hubbard got what was coming to him for putting up what a newspaper called "the best fight of his career." Three months in the House of Correction.
Published May 18, 2012
Win or lose - and of his more than 40 amateur fights, he lost only a handful - Fred Radmer was well known and popular for the all-out effort that was his trademark in the boxing ring. Now 61 and living in West Allis, Radmer is still an indomitable fighter, only since he hung up his boxing gloves more than three decades ago the competition has been even tougher.
Published April 2, 2010
Sixty years ago when Big Dave Ragus knocked out three guys to win the Wisconsin Golden Gloves heavyweight championship, about 16,000 fans crowded the Milwaukee Auditorium for the annual amateur boxing tournament. Plenty has changed since then. When the three-night state Golden Gloves tournament starts next Saturday at Memorial Hall of Racine, they'll be lucky to get a tenth as many customers. There were about 200 boxers entered in 1950; now 60 is a bumper crop.
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