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Fight City Legends: The Old Master
Born in Baltimore in 1874, the great Joe Gans got his start in boxing the way many black fighters of his time did, in absurd, exploitative spectacles called ...
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Fight Reports 0
The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 13)
Trust us to get a brand new recap podcast up for you as host Alden Chodash and Josh Brewer discuss Canelo vs Saunders. Plus, Alden is then joined ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Canelo vs Saunders
The Event ‘Pressure makes diamonds’ isn’t quite the whole story. Whether in a lab, or hundreds of miles below the earth’s surface, when temperatures of thousands of degrees ...
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Boxiana 0
May 8, 1982: Mancini vs Frias
By this time all of America knew the Ray Mancini story; precious few knew the tale of Arturo Frias. While “Boom Boom” Mancini was something out of a ...
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Boxiana 1
May 7, 2005: Castillo vs Corrales I
The point of this article is simple: to pay homage to a truly great fight. As simple as that. Nothing more. And nothing less. Let’s forget that Jose ...
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Teep To The Pods (No. 2)
The man they call “Teep,” aka Teep To The Junk, aka Julius OldSchoolius, that being our resident renowned raconteur on all things Bellator and MMA, returns for a ...
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Lee Wylie 1
The Genius Of Sugar Ray Robinson
This past Monday was a boxing anniversary with a difference, one that, were life not on hold due to COVID-19, would have been reason for numerous gatherings and ...
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Canelo vs Saunders: High Pressure
Have you ever tried to squeeze all of the toothpaste out of the tube? I mean really tried. And I mean every last sticky particle of paste. No? ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Mexican Boxers
A while back your preferred independent combat sports website had a special week on Mexican pugilists called “Mexican Style” and part of it was a spirited debate regarding ...
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Boxiana 5
May 5, 1973: Jofre vs Legra
Boxing comebacks are usually a bad idea. Boxing comebacks involving former world champions over the age of 35 are, George Foreman notwithstanding, almost always a terrible idea. But ...
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Boxiana 0
May 4, 1980: Randolph vs Cardona
It was Leo Randolph’s turn. His compatriots from the 1976 Olympic Games who, like him, had won gold medals and received the plaudits of the American public, had ...
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Fight Reports 0
The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 12)
Time for a new podcast to put the most recent boxing action in perspective as host Alden Chodash is joined by site contributors Jeffrey Fuss and Hunter Breckenridge ...
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Boxiana 0
Dempsey’s Long Goodbye (Part 2)
This is the second of two articles detailing Jack Dempsey’s comeback tour. For Part One, click here. Dempsey took a brief break from the first leg of the ...
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Boxiana 0
Dempsey’s Long Goodbye (Part 1)
The comeback trail is a well-trodden path for professional boxers. Ex-champions, contenders, and club fighters alike are all tempted to return to the ring for one last payday. ...
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May 1, 1957: Robinson vs Fullmer II
May 1st, 1957. Chicago Stadium. The rematch between young, tough Gene Fullmer, and the living legend, Sugar Ray Robinson. Pre-fight predictions were mixed, but most thought time was ...
The Fight City
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Training In The Shadows
It has been over a year since the calamity that is COVID-19 upended our lives and shook the world. Every corner of the globe has been affected by ...
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Eye Of The Tiger Marches Forward
As a new year begins, professional boxing struggles to stay alive amidst a raging pandemic that shows few signs of abating anytime soon. However, many of the game’s ...
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One Night In Montreal
With boxing still profoundly affected by the ongoing pandemic, we will continue to periodically revisit some of our past feature articles. Today, we look back to when our ...
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The Fight City 0
Otis Grant: Winning On The Road
On December 13, 1997, Otis Grant won a unanimous decision over Ryan Rhodes to earn the WBO middleweight title. We sat down with Otis to get his recollections ...
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The High Card: Yves Ulysse Dominates “G-Time”
Despite nurturing an impressive stable of both local and transplanted boxers in recent years, Eye of the Tiger Management and Camille Estephan have been firm in their stance ...
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Four Aces From Eye Of The Tiger
Recent years have demonstrated, with great success, the viability of the tournament format for professional boxing. The World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) has so far staged five elimination ...
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The Fight City 0
Wins For Lemieux, Lexson and “The Lion”
With COVID-19 ravaging the province of Quebec unlike anywhere else in Canada, the local boxing scene, which boasts a strong stable of world class talent, was one of ...
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The Fight City 0
Triple Threat
Quebec fight fans, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for, the return of real professional boxing. And while you will not see the punches fly in person, ...
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Quarantine Blues: Boxing Fights For Survival
Last week the government of Quebec announced it was considering prohibiting the resumption of boxing events until an effective vaccine for COVID-19 is found. The province’s two biggest promoters, ...
Fight Reports
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The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 13)
Trust us to get a brand new recap podcast up for you as host Alden Chodash and Josh Brewer discuss Canelo vs Saunders. Plus, Alden is then joined ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Canelo vs Saunders
The Event ‘Pressure makes diamonds’ isn’t quite the whole story. Whether in a lab, or hundreds of miles below the earth’s surface, when temperatures of thousands of degrees ...
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Fight Reports 0
The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 12)
Time for a new podcast to put the most recent boxing action in perspective as host Alden Chodash is joined by site contributors Jeffrey Fuss and Hunter Breckenridge ...
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The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 11)
After a jam-packed weekend of boxing action, we have the in-depth recap podcast you need with host Alden Chodash being joined by none other than former world champ ...
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Fight Report: Estrada vs Gonzalez II
The Event Saturday night in Dallas, Texas, some five thousand fight freaks defied a global pandemic to witness a super flyweight rematch between two of the most enthralling ...
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The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 10)
Time for your boxing recap podcast to put all the weekend’s major fights in perspective as Alden Chodash is joined by Adam Abramowitz to assess Oscar Valdez’s huge ...
The Fight City Podcast
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The Fight City Podcast No. 50
Time for a new edition of our podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, who is joined by author and site contributor Glen Sharp as they recap the first ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 49
Yesterday was a remarkable day in boxing history, for reasons both good and regrettable, so what better time to offer fight fans a new edition of our podcast, ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 48
Brand new podcast for you, fight fans, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, and it’s a special edition marking the 50th anniversary of quite possibly the biggest prizefight ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 47
Brand new edition of our podcast is now available for your listening pleasure fight fans, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, as he and site contributor Jeffery Fuss discuss ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 46
Time for a new podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, and it’s a jam-packed edition with Adam Abramowitz of Saturday Night Boxing joining Alden to talk the ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 45
Time for a new edition of our podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash as we reflect on Saturday’s big upset. Loma vs Lopez proved to be one ...
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The Sting Of The Scorpion
Regardless of anyone’s opinions of the state of boxing in the 21st century, there’s no denying that with some seventeen different weight divisions, four major sanctioning bodies, and ...
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Nothing Left To Prove
Most great boxers do not go gently into the good night of retirement, but instead rage and fight against the dying of the light. And while, having long ...
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The Only Decision To Make
It remains unforgettable: Roberto Duran, arguably the greatest boxer, pound-for-pound, on the planet, stops fighting, turns his back on his opponent, and tells the referee: “No mas.” Sugar ...
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No More Bullshit
Back in 1969, Norman Mailer, writer, gadfly, fight fan, and best-selling author, put himself forward as a candidate for mayor of New York City. It was a mad, ...
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“My Brain Is Okay!”
A few weeks ago I saw Errol Spence in a video from his training camp for Saturday’s showdown with Danny Garcia, Spence’s first fight in over fourteen months. ...
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More Than Just One Punch
It was on this day in 1994 that the “impossible dream” was fulfilled. At age 45, former heavyweight champion George Foreman became the oldest man to win the ...
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Davis vs Santa Cruz: The Tall Order
I really like Leo Santa Cruz, not just as a boxer, a four-division champion at that, but as a man. Nicknamed “El Terremoto,” Santa Cruz is a very ...
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Right Fight, Wrong Time: Hagler vs Leonard In 1983
Back in 1987, Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvelous Marvin Hagler threw down in a highly-advertised middleweight championship fight in Las Vegas, a glorious spectacle which captured the attention ...
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Ali vs Shavers: The Greatest’s Finest Hour
No matter how dismal the fight scene may be at a given time, fans can always cherish and take comfort from the sport’s glorious history. The past is ...
Features
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Fifty Epic Fights: The 1990s
It’s been more than a year since our world was devastated by the deadly COVID-19 virus and we’re still far from getting back to normal. In fact, depending ...
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Teep To The Pods (No. 2)
The man they call “Teep,” aka Teep To The Junk, aka Julius OldSchoolius, that being our resident renowned raconteur on all things Bellator and MMA, returns for a ...
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Canelo vs Saunders: High Pressure
Have you ever tried to squeeze all of the toothpaste out of the tube? I mean really tried. And I mean every last sticky particle of paste. No? ...
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Eighty Fights From The 80’s (Part Two)
We know you’ve barely started sampling all the great battles we listed yesterday in Part One of this list, but we promised, and so we deliver: here’s the ...
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Eighty Fights From The 80’s (Part One)
The 1980s were a monumental decade in politics, pop music and, of course, in boxing. Indeed, the eighties stand out for the sheer volume of exciting battles, not ...
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Teep To The Pods (No. 1)
While The Fight City is chiefly a boxing site, we have never been averse to offering coverage of mixed martial arts and today’s post represents a new step ...
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Herring vs Frampton: In The Eyes Of The Jackal
In her 1986 treatise, On Boxing, renowned author Joyce Carol Oates writes that “the boxer meets an opponent who is a dream-distortion of himself in the sense that ...
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The Loneliest Warriors
When Szilvia Szabados landed in Detroit shortly before midnight on March 6, 2017, she knew she was walking into hostile territory. The Hungarian challenger flew nineteen hours from ...
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Glory Does Stay
“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.” — James ...
Lee Wylie
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Remembering Joe Louis
The great Joe Louis was born on this day in 1914 and no serious fight fan needs to be reminded as to why he will always be a ...
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Lee Wylie 1
The Genius Of Sugar Ray Robinson
This past Monday was a boxing anniversary with a difference, one that, were life not on hold due to COVID-19, would have been reason for numerous gatherings and ...
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Lee Wylie 1
The Artful Aggression Of Mantequilla
When the great Jose Napoles died in 2019, the boxing world paused and mourned a truly great boxer. No matter where you might rank him among the all-time ...
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Lee Wylie 0
Even Better Than You Think
The sudden death of Marvelous Marvin Hagler has shocked the sports world and triggered a wave of grief and remembrance for a champion taken from us far too ...
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Lee Wylie 4
Joe Louis: Mechanical Wonder
“I could have struggled up once more, but when I get executed, people are going to have to pay more than twenty-five dollars a seat to watch it.” ...
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Wylie On Pep: Subtle Sophistication
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of one of the most extraordinary performances in the entire history of pugilism, that being Willie Pep’s remarkable rematch win over the great Sandy ...
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Jeffries vs Corbett
The first Jeffries vs Corbett clash took place in Coney Island, New York over a century ago but the storylines highlighted by that historic battle are ones we ...
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Boxiana 1
Fight City Legends: The Old Master
Born in Baltimore in 1874, the great Joe Gans got his start in boxing the way many black fighters of his time did, in absurd, exploitative spectacles called ...
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Boxiana 0
May 8, 1982: Mancini vs Frias
By this time all of America knew the Ray Mancini story; precious few knew the tale of Arturo Frias. While “Boom Boom” Mancini was something out of a ...
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Boxiana 1
May 7, 2005: Castillo vs Corrales I
The point of this article is simple: to pay homage to a truly great fight. As simple as that. Nothing more. And nothing less. Let’s forget that Jose ...
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Boxiana 5
May 5, 1973: Jofre vs Legra
Boxing comebacks are usually a bad idea. Boxing comebacks involving former world champions over the age of 35 are, George Foreman notwithstanding, almost always a terrible idea. But ...
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Boxiana 0
May 4, 1980: Randolph vs Cardona
It was Leo Randolph’s turn. His compatriots from the 1976 Olympic Games who, like him, had won gold medals and received the plaudits of the American public, had ...
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Boxiana 0
Dempsey’s Long Goodbye (Part 2)
This is the second of two articles detailing Jack Dempsey’s comeback tour. For Part One, click here. Dempsey took a brief break from the first leg of the ...
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Boxiana 0
Dempsey’s Long Goodbye (Part 1)
The comeback trail is a well-trodden path for professional boxers. Ex-champions, contenders, and club fighters alike are all tempted to return to the ring for one last payday. ...
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Boxiana 7
May 1, 1957: Robinson vs Fullmer II
May 1st, 1957. Chicago Stadium. The rematch between young, tough Gene Fullmer, and the living legend, Sugar Ray Robinson. Pre-fight predictions were mixed, but most thought time was ...
Fight City Reviews
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Gravity
In recent years women’s boxing has taken huge strides forward, its participants commanding more attention than ever before. Had the pandemic not hit, the Tokyo Olympics would have ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Requiem Revisited
A little while back writers Andrew Rihn and David Curcio launched a new series here on boxing movies, with these astute aficionados of both cinema and prizefighting offering ...
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A Requiem For Iron Mike
“The only thing we knew was violence in Brownsville, even with people we love.” — ...
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Fight City Reviews 1
When We Were Kings
With the death earlier this month of filmmaker Leon Gast, many fight fans are fondly recalling his most celebrated creation, a much-loved documentary which somehow seems as fresh ...
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Fight City Reviews 3
The Nightmares Of Emile Griffith
Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story explores the ramifications of one of the most infamous moments in the history of professional boxing. On March 24, 1962, at ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
In Sunshine Or In Shadow
The generational sectarian violence in Ireland, or “The Troubles” as they are often called, is something I have always known about but, as an American, I have never ...
The Top Twelve
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Mexican Boxers
A while back your preferred independent combat sports website had a special week on Mexican pugilists called “Mexican Style” and part of it was a spirited debate regarding ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Chins
A pugilist’s last line of defense is the durability of his mandible and of course no one doubts that a key qualification for ring greatness is sheer toughness, ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Upsets In Boxing History
How does one measure an upset? Simple: by the number of chins on the floor at the end of the fight. And the power of the shockwaves felt ...
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Top 12 All-Time Most Controversial Fights
No sport has courted as much scandal and public outrage as boxing. From dives and fixed fights, to outrageous decisions, not to mention the shady stuff behind closed ...
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Top 12 Greatest All-Mexican Fights
The expectations were high this past Saturday when Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez answered the bell in Las Vegas and with good reason. Few countries can match Mexico ...
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The Top 12 All-Time Cockiest Boxers
There’s confident, and then there’s cocky, the former being expected of any prizefighter with the guts to step into the ring, but the latter taking confidence and turning ...
