And in this corner...

It being Boxing Day, we leap into the ring at Madison Square Garden, and bring you greetings from Stanley Ketchel, Jake LaMotta, Tony Zale, Sugar Ray Robinson, Archie Moore, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Billy Conn, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson, Gentleman Jim Corbett, Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston, George Foreman, Evander Holyfield, George Chuvalo, Jimmy McLarnin, Max Baer, Georges Carpentier, Max Schmeling, Primo Carnera, Rocky Graziano, Emile Griffith, Rocky Marciano, Ken Norton, Ingemar Johannson, Willie Pep, Jack Sharkey, John L. Sullivan, Jess Willard, Budd Schulberg, George Plimpton, Rocky Balboa, Joe Palooka, A.J. Liebling, the Marquis of Queensberry and Don King to all aficionados of what Liebling called "the sweet science."