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Feb. 15, 1982: Leonard vs Finch
It is 1982 and Sugar Ray Leonard is the king of not only the welterweight division, but of the entire sport of boxing. No other fighter is as ...
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Feb. 14, 1951: Robinson vs LaMotta VI
Of all the great rivalries in boxing, that between Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta stands apart. First, these were two all-time greats. Even early in their careers, ...
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Columns 7
The Contrasting Legacies Of Roy & Floyd
When James J. Jeffries, heavyweight champion of the world, retired undefeated in 1905, few were in any doubt that they had just seen the greatest heavyweight fighter of ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Upsets
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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Feb. 11, 1990: Douglas vs Tyson
Thirty years ago today, it happened: Douglas vs Tyson. The biggest upset in boxing history. Every fan knows the narrative. In 1990, the undefeated Mike Tyson appeared indomitable, ...
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Feb. 11, 1949: Pep vs Saddler II
There is a certain mystique to legendary fights of yesteryear, a nostalgia that speaks of a time when ‘The Sweet Science’ was larger than life and ruled supreme. ...
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Columns 8
The Legacy of Douglas vs Tyson
What is the legacy of James “Buster” Douglas’ astonishing knockout of Mike Tyson? Perhaps an impossible question to answer, though we’ve had almost three decades to digest its ...
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Feb. 9, 1974: Monzon vs Napoles
By this time no one questioned the greatness of the man they called “Mantequilla.” Jose Napoles, the former Cuban who emigrated to Mexico after Fidel Castro took over ...
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Boxiana 1
Light Heavyweight Mayhem
The famous middleweight “Murderer’s Row” of the 1940s, which in its prime featured Archie Moore, Ezzard Charles, Charley Burley, Lloyd Marshall and Holman Williams (among others), had something ...
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Feb. 7, 1882: Sullivan vs Ryan
At the dawn of pugilism’s gloved era, championship claims were difficult to prove or sustain absent reliable record-keeping and a means to ensure prizefights could happen without police interference. ...
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Fight City Reviews 2
The Edge of Fat City
Like humanity, the world of boxing consists largely of losers. Perhaps the most self-defeating kind of loser is one who fails to take responsibility for his failures, instead ...
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Feb. 5, 1943: Robinson-LaMotta II
A rivalry is not a rivalry after just one fight. Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta had faced each other for the very first time just four months prior ...
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Fight City Legends: The Toy Bulldog
There’s a character archetype that’s been floating around for decades, if not centuries: the scrappy Irishman who makes up with strength and guts what he lacks in stature, ...
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Feb. 3, 1996: Barrera vs McKinney
It’s 1996 and HBO has decided to start a new series of live boxing, providing fight fans with more excitement and their prizefighters with more exposure. At that time, ...
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Feb. 2, 1980: Sanchez vs Lopez I
Danny “Little Red” Lopez had won the WBC version of the featherweight crown in 1976 and no one begrudged him the title. This was because Lopez, contrary to ...
The Fight City
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Tigers On Parade
The Montreal Casino turned into “The Tiger’s Den” last night as Eye Of The Tiger Management staged another showcase card featuring several younger prospects from their huge stable ...
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Back To The Bell Centre
The last time Eye of the Tiger Management staged a major fight card at Montreal’s Bell Centre, it became a scene of utter chaos. A tense Quebec vs ...
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Otis Grant: Hometown Hero
Otis “Magic” Grant is more than a former world champion boxer, much more than one of Canada’s most successful athletes. As an amateur, he won provincial and national ...
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Will Beterbiev Make Montreal Great Again?
After losing by knockout, Oleksandr Gvozdyk held up his hands in honest submission. The gesture came on his way back to the dressing room when a group of ...
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Big Cats At The Casino, Part Two
Not one, but two, major fight cards went down at the Montreal Casino in recent days as Eye Of The Tiger Management showcased some of the big cats ...
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Big Cats At The Casino, Part One
Not one, but two, major fight cards went down at the Montreal Casino in recent days as Eye Of The Tiger Management showcased some of the big cats ...
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Something For Everyone
A few years ago the city of Montreal had more than just one of the most active combat sports scenes in the world. A few years ago it ...
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The Tale Of Shady & Theo
What draws one to a boxing gym? Some rare individuals, such as Floyd Mayweather Jr., enter its doors almost as toddlers, virtually growing up inside its walls. Others ...
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Kaboom’s Big Chance
There was a time — or so I’ve been told — when top contenders, instead of waiting to see if they could cash in and get a title ...
Fight Reports
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Fight Report: Diaz vs Farmer
“And NEW!” The two words each and every professional fighter dreams of hearing at some point in their career. For Joseph “Jo Jo” Diaz Jr., it took until ...
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Atlantic City Fight Night: Smith Jr. Batters Hart
Atlantic City is not a town that does “slick.” Its charm is in a nostalgia for the 1950s, the Rat Pack era, wise guys and dance crazes, big ...
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Fight Report: Pascal vs Jack
The Event Jean Pascal continues to defy time and common sense and a career trajectory that, until quite recently, had him on his way out at the age ...
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Fireworks At MSG: Crawford And Teofimo
Despite this being his first ever title shot and the most dangerous test of his young career, 22-year-old Teofimo Lopez wore the same demeanor into the ring as ...
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Fight Report: Ulysse vs Barroso
The Event Heading into last night’s fight card in Costa Mesa, California, Montreal’s Yves Ulysse Jr. (18-2) was the A-side against Ismael Barroso (22-3-2), the grizzled Venezuelan veteran ...
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Fight Report: Inoue vs Donaire
The Event The finale of the second season of the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) saw two of the biggest names at bantamweight square off for division supremacy, ...
The Fight City Podcast
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The Fight City Podcast No. 36
Welcome back to a new edition of our podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash! This episode he and site founder and editor Michael Carbert discuss a range of ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 35
Time for a new podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, who is joined by site founder and editor Michael Carbert to discuss, among other things, the possible ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 34
Brand new podcast dropping for all you fight freaks, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, just in time for the big heavyweight rematch between Andy Ruiz Jr. and ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 33
Welcome back to a new edition of our podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash! This week he and site founder and editor Michael Carbert discuss the big ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 32
Time for a new edition of our podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash! This week he and site editor Michael Carbert recap the great battle that was ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 31
Definitely time for a new podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash who is again joined by site founder and editor Michael Carbert as they recap Beterbiev vs ...
Columns
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Columns 7
The Contrasting Legacies Of Roy & Floyd
When James J. Jeffries, heavyweight champion of the world, retired undefeated in 1905, few were in any doubt that they had just seen the greatest heavyweight fighter of ...
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Columns 8
The Legacy of Douglas vs Tyson
What is the legacy of James “Buster” Douglas’ astonishing knockout of Mike Tyson? Perhaps an impossible question to answer, though we’ve had almost three decades to digest its ...
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Overfed Turkey Or Sleek Bird Of Prey?
What a difference two years can make. Back in 2017, the WBC belt-holder Deontay Wilder had just fought Gerald Washington, the latest in his long line of scrubs, ...
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The Crawford Question
When a fighter who many consider to be, pound-for-pound, the best in the world defends his title at Madison Square Garden, it should be a big deal. But ...
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Andy Ruiz Jr: Another One-Hit Wonder?
For those who appreciate what we might call boxing fairy tales, February 11th, 1990 holds a special place in the calendar of pugilistic memories. It was on that ...
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“The Bronze Bomber” Will Need To Be Better Come February
Wilder vs Ortiz II is done and dusted and now I for one cannot wait for February. Because, barring something unforeseen, that’s when we’ll witness probably the best ...
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Foreman vs Moorer: 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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The Canelo Situation
For a while now I’ve been wondering what’s going on with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. First, for many months he’s been insisting a third match with his arch-rival, Gennadiy ...
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The Courage Of Patrick Day
Patrick Day died yesterday. He was only 27-years-old and, according to all accounts, was an exceptional young man. He died because he loved to compete in the ring, ...
Features
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The Fight City Picks
Their first battle in December of 2018 was an entertaining and surprisingly dramatic tilt with an unforgettable final round, but the draw verdict at the end left many ...
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Hardy vs Vincent: ‘A Sellable Thing’
Dressed in black spandex and sporting her long blond hair in pig tails, Heather Hardy stepped into the ring at the BB King Club and Grill in mid-town ...
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McCluskey’s Dozen: Thirty Years Of Talent
Talent is an almost indefinable quality. You can spot it in a prodigious young athlete, but at the same time it’s difficult to define precisely what it is. ...
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Top 12 Fights We Want To See In 2020
No one can dispute the fact that 2019 was a strong year for boxing with some excellent fights we’ll remember for a long time to come. Match-ups such ...
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2019 Fighter Of The Year
Fighter of the Year Nominees Vasyl Lomachenko Naoya Inoue Saul “Canelo” Alvarez Josh Taylor Manny Pacquiao Jean Pascal Winner: Naoya Inoue Welcome to the Two Fight Club! Sadly, ...
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2019 Fight Of The Year
Fight of the Year Nominations: Julian Williams W12 Jarrett Hurd David Lemieux W10 Max Bursak Gennady Golovkin W12 Sergiy Derevyanchenko Errol Spence W12 Shawn Porter Yuki Beppu TKO10 ...
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2019 Knockout Of The Year
Knockout of the Year Nominations: Nonito Donaire KO6 Stephon Young Ryan Rozicki KO2 Khetag Pliev Oscar Escandon KO1 Jhack Tepora Teofimo Lopez TKO2 Richard Commey Deontay Wilder KO7 ...
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2019 Performance Of The Year
Performance of the Year Nominees: Sergey Kovalev (vs Eleider Alvarez) Nonito Donaire (vs Naoya Inoue) Naoya Inoue (vs Nonito Donaire) Manny Pacquiao (vs Keith Thurman) Canelo Alvarez (vs ...
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2019 Upset Of The Year
Upset of the Year Nominees: Andy Ruiz Jr. TKO7 Anthony Joshua Andrew Cancio KO4 Alberto Machado Julian Williams W12 Jarrett Hurd Oscar Escandon KO1 Jhack Tepora Jean Pascal ...
Lee Wylie
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Terence Crawford: The Complete Boxer
In the not so distant past, when a gifted, young pugilist established himself as a top talent, he and boxing fans could look forward to a series of ...
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Salvador Sanchez: Counterpunch
“I’m convinced that Salvador Sanchez was the best Mexican fighter of all time. Even better than Julio Cesar Chavez.” — Wilfredo Gomez “The greatest Mexican fighter of all-time ...
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Muhammad Ali: The Fighter
1. What tactics or skills were most crucial to the boxing success of Muhammad Ali? Distance and Timing: By leaning forward at the waist, Ali could, almost at ...
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Sun Tzu, Musashi, & The Pound-For-Pound Five
It’s a never-ending debate among hardcore boxing fans: just who are, pound-for-pound, the very best ring warriors active today. Various criteria are at play and the answers are ...
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Henry Armstrong: Calculated Chaos
When Henry Armstrong invaded the featherweight division and assumed its pinnacle before going on to seize the crowns of the lightweight and welterweight divisions, professional boxing operated quite ...
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Happy Birthday To The Old Master
Joe Gans was one of boxing’s first true masters. He pioneered many now common boxing techniques and his crafty ways and unmatched ring intelligence earned him the nickname ...
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Feb. 18, 1989: Whitaker vs Haugen
Looking back it’s difficult not to feel some measure of regret for Pernell Whitaker, which is absurd given that the man won six world titles in four divisions ...
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Frazier vs Ellis
Following Muhammad Ali’s refusal to be drafted into the U.S. Army in June 1967 and his being relieved of both his title and his license to box, the matter ...
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Feb. 15, 1982: Leonard vs Finch
It is 1982 and Sugar Ray Leonard is the king of not only the welterweight division, but of the entire sport of boxing. No other fighter is as ...
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Boxiana 1
Feb. 14, 1951: Robinson vs LaMotta VI
Of all the great rivalries in boxing, that between Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta stands apart. First, these were two all-time greats. Even early in their careers, ...
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Boxiana 0
Feb. 11, 1990: Douglas vs Tyson
Thirty years ago today, it happened: Douglas vs Tyson. The biggest upset in boxing history. Every fan knows the narrative. In 1990, the undefeated Mike Tyson appeared indomitable, ...
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Boxiana 0
Feb. 11, 1949: Pep vs Saddler II
There is a certain mystique to legendary fights of yesteryear, a nostalgia that speaks of a time when ‘The Sweet Science’ was larger than life and ruled supreme. ...
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Boxiana 0
Feb. 9, 1974: Monzon vs Napoles
By this time no one questioned the greatness of the man they called “Mantequilla.” Jose Napoles, the former Cuban who emigrated to Mexico after Fidel Castro took over ...
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Boxiana 1
Light Heavyweight Mayhem
The famous middleweight “Murderer’s Row” of the 1940s, which in its prime featured Archie Moore, Ezzard Charles, Charley Burley, Lloyd Marshall and Holman Williams (among others), had something ...
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Boxiana 6
Feb. 7, 1882: Sullivan vs Ryan
At the dawn of pugilism’s gloved era, championship claims were difficult to prove or sustain absent reliable record-keeping and a means to ensure prizefights could happen without police interference. ...
Fight City Reviews
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Fight City Reviews 2
The Edge of Fat City
Like humanity, the world of boxing consists largely of losers. Perhaps the most self-defeating kind of loser is one who fails to take responsibility for his failures, instead ...
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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 never understood. I live in Philadelphia ...
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Cut Time
In Cut Time: An Education at the Fights, Carlo Rotella expounds deeply on a thesis boxing fans have heard before; namely, that the fight game serves as a ...
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Fight City Reviews 3
The Blood Feud
HBO’s 2008 film Thrilla In Manila is a sports documentary with an agenda; not necessarily a bad thing, but when a bias obscures and twists the truth, as happens here, ...
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Fight City Reviews 3
A Requiem for Iron Mike
“The only thing we knew was violence in Brownsville, even with people we love.” — ...
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Gravity
In recent years women’s boxing has taken huge strides forward, its participants commanding more attention than ever before. Tokyo 2020 will the third Olympic Games to feature a ...
The Top Twelve
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Upsets
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 All-Time Best Scottish Boxers
Happy Robbie Burns Day, fight fans! But instead of reciting “To A Haggis” and breaking out the bagpipes, we’ll settle for Scotsman Shaun Brown’s ranking of the all-time ...
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Top 12 Greatest Muhammad Ali Performances
Today is the birthday of Muhammad Ali so what better time to once again pay tribute to the boxing legacy of “The Greatest.” When he died in June of 2016, ...
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Top 12 Reasons Why Muhammad Ali Is Forever The Greatest
Today is the anniversary of the birth of the amazing athlete who changed boxing forever and, as we must each year, we take time to celebrate his life ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Lightweights
We continue our periodic series ranking the all-time best boxers in the original eight weight classes by today casting our discerning eye on the lightweights. For simplicity’s sake, ...
