Willie Pep is my favorite all-time, old-school fighter. Two-hundred and twenty-nine wins against 11 losses and one draw, won and regained the featherweight title, competed in three decades and ...

In 1946, boxing history may or may not have been made. It was a featherweight bout between Guglielmo Papaleo, better known as Willie Pep, and Jackie Graves. The fight lasted for 8 rounds (out of ...

“The Featherweight,” a new movie about prizefighter Willie Pep, is finally bobbing and weaving its way into a Connecticut theater near you starting Friday. The movie is not just about a ...

In Willie Pep's later years, he was known to carry a folded newspaper article in his wallet. The article was about his 1946 fight with Jackie Graves, the one in which Pep allegedly won a round ...

Ahead of the release for a new movie featuring legendary Connecticut boxer Willie Pep, the filmmakers held a special screening for Hartford residents Wednesday. The biopic is titled "The ...

What if they don’t like me?’ She was going on and on. Well, Willie stood there for 45 minutes and gave her the pep talk of a lifetime.” Hope and Faith can, indeed, go a long way as the rest ...

There’s a story that Willie Pep, the protagonist of Robert Kolodny’s feature debut The Featherweight, likes to tell. It’s about a match with a kid, who, so awed by the boxing champion ...

The post-salad days of real-life Connecticut boxer Willie Pep are dramatized with impressive vérité verisimilitude in Robert Kolodny's Venice-premiered debut feature. So convincingly ...

Tuckman Media is releasing Appian Way Production’s The Featherweight about two-time World Featherweight boxing champion Willie Pep and has set a September theatrical release date. The pic ...

A movie about featherweight boxing champion and Connecticut native Willie Pep will debut in theaters across the state on Friday, Sept. 20. The film, “The Featherweight,” is set in mid-1960s ...