NEWBURGH, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- He's gone from adversity to being an inspirational figure. An upstate man, imprisoned for years for a crime he didn't commit, won his professional boxing debut, at age 52 ...

Nobody has ever bought a jersey with the name Dewey Rader Bozella on it. There are no sneakers embossed with a DRB logo. Few people in the world of sports have ever heard of Dewey Rader Bozella. But a ...

Imagine spending 26 years in prison for a crime you did not commit. It could happen to anyone. When you think about it in simple terms, there is no difference between any of us and 52-year-old Dewey ...

LOS ANGELES – Dewey Bozella, the 52-year-old boxer who spent 26 years in Sing Sing prison after being wrongly convicted of murder, made his first – and last – professional fight a successful one ...

(CBS) - It has been two years since Dewey Bozella was exonerated of murder. Now the 52-year-old Bozella, who spent 26 years of his life in prison for a crime he didn't commit, will make his ...

“I would rather die in prison than admit to something I didn’t do.” For 26 years, Dewey Bozella stayed true to those words while wrongfully imprisoned in Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, ...

It stares out from the record books unremarkably, like so many of the more than 15,000 professional boxing matches that took place in 2011: But the above bout, held last Oct. 15 at the Staples Center ...

At the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday night two Hopkins took to the ring yet neither emerged victorious. Dewey Bozella made his professional debut at the age of 52 in a four-round bout ...

LOS ANGELES -- Dewey Bozella landed a hard right cross on his opponent's jaw at the final bell, and the 52-year-old boxer raised his arms in victory. After 26 years behind bars for a murder he didn't ...

LOS ANGELES – Dewey Bozella had been in jail for 26 years. Freedom, and all it meant, hit him six months later. Everyone has his Damascus Road. Bozella had a Chinese restaurant in the Poughkeepsie ...

It was more than three hours before the main event at Staples Center, and Dewey Bozella may have already produced the best moment. The sole spotlight was to be on Bernard Hopkins, who was to defend ...