For nearly two decades, people have taken them for granted. Compubox numbers are routinely displayed on boxing telecasts, referred to in newspaper stories and repeated around water coolers all over ...

While most of the sports world is obsessed with round numbers, the boxing world’s magic number is 147. St. Olaf’s professor Gordon Marino explains why. Photo: AP ...

Summer used to be a quiet spell at Sheffield City Boxing Club - but this year’s holiday sessions have brought record-breaking numbers through the door. Around 50 children would turn up at their ...