“I’ve lived many lives,” says 84-year-old Tom Hoover. And he has the stories to prove it.

Larry Holmes once predicted what he believes would have happened in a fantasy fight between Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier.

First, the genesis. When four mothers endured the harrowing labour pains in Kentucky, Illinois, South Carolina, and Texas in the same decade, it didn’t cross their minds that they were birthing ...