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Boxiana 2
Sept. 16, 1981: Leonard vs Hearns
In the summer of 1981, only two boxers mattered in America: WBA welterweight champion Thomas Hearns, and WBC welterweight champion Sugar Ray Leonard. Since the previous fall, when ...
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The Top Twelve 4
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Uncrowned Champions
For most of boxing history, world title belts didn’t grow on trees, as they say, and even title shots were a rare and much sought-after commodity. Competition was ...
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Boxiana 2
Sept. 14, 1923: Dempsey vs Firpo
After more than nine decades it may be difficult to appreciate the impact of the legendary Dempsey vs Firpo fight and how it transformed the public image of ...
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Boxiana 0
Sept. 12, 1992: Chavez vs Camacho (Part Two)
Click here to read part I of the tale of Chavez vs Camacho. With a delirious crowd awaiting the opening bell, JCC walked through a mob from his ...
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Boxiana 0
Sept. 12, 1992: Chavez vs Camacho (Part One)
The ring, like the arena that housed it, was filled to capacity. The final bell had rung and dozens of people climbed through the ropes for the rituals ...
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Boxiana 0
Sept. 12, 1951: Robinson vs Turpin
The first Robinson vs Turpin battle took place in London, England just two months before the second, and it will forever stand as one of the greatest upsets ...
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Boxiana 4
The Fight That Never Was
Back during that awful time when for five long years it seemed Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao would never, ever meet in the ring, pundits and historians mused ...
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Boxiana 15
Sept. 10, 1973: Ali vs Norton II
It had been years since Muhammad Ali worked with such intensity and purpose, years since he had forced his body to undergo the torture necessary to reach supreme ...
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Boxiana 3
Sept. 9, 1983: Pryor vs Arguello II
Do a Google search for Alexis Arguello and you end up with photos and videos about Aaron Pryor. Do one for Aaron Pryor and you end up with ...
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Boxiana 1
Sept. 8, 1950: Pep vs Saddler III
Pep vs Saddler. For die-hard fans of “The Sport Of Kings,” those four syllables conjure up all kinds of recollections and images and important facts from the rich ...
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Fight Reports 1
Fight Report: Ugas vs Ramos
With professional boxing rebounding following months of idleness, the number of intriguing and consequential match-ups is steadily rising. And while not exactly a marquee match (after all, if ...
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Boxiana 7
Sept. 6, 1920: Dempsey, Greb & Langford
It’s now a very rare thing for boxing fans to get genuinely excited about the undercard for a major fight. The preliminaries for big showdowns are often exercises ...
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Boxiana 0
Sept. 6, 1997: Zaragoza vs Morales
It was the classic confrontation: age and experience vs youth and raw talent. Southpaw Daniel Zaragoza was the grizzled veteran, a survivor of 65 professional battles and some 21 ...
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The Top Twelve 0
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Rivalries
The best boxing rivalries are about more than a series of action-packed fights. Great rivalries are stories, absorbing narratives that capture the attention of legions of fans and ...
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Fight City Reviews 2
McIlvanney On Boxing
A.J. Liebling will always be boxing’s literary standard bearer, his masterwork The Sweet Science and other books certain to find appreciative fans through the generations. If there’s a ...
The Fight City
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The Fight City 0
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, ...
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The Fight City 5
Boxing In The Blood
I guess you could say it’s in the blood. Boxing. The fight game. The crazy racket they call pugilism. Because the fact is both of my grandfathers were ...
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The Fight City 9
Tribute To Big Ron
“Ron had a big-time joie de vivre. He loved people, and he loved his boxing. When it came to training, he had a ton of patience. He was ...
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The Fight City 0
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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The Fight City 0
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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The Fight City 0
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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The Fight City 0
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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The Fight City 0
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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The Fight City 0
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 ...
Fight Reports
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Fight Reports 1
Fight Report: Ugas vs Ramos
With professional boxing rebounding following months of idleness, the number of intriguing and consequential match-ups is steadily rising. And while not exactly a marquee match (after all, if ...
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Fight Reports 1
The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 2)
It was a lively weekend in boxing action and we got your podcast recap of all the major results, courtesy of Alden Chodash and Jeffrey Fuss. Topics include: the action-packed ...
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The Weekend That Was Podcast
Let us get you up to date on all the weekend boxing results as Alden Chodash and Jeffrey Fuss recap the major action happening in front of rows ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Stevenson vs Caraballo
Shakur Stevenson, budding star, 2016 Olympic silver medalist, and current WBO featherweight champion, re-opened the boxing landscape last night by dominating and stopping an over-matched Felix Caraballo at ...
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Fight Report: Gonzalez vs Yafai
The Event: The main event, or so we were told, for last night’s solid DAZN card from Texas was a showdown of welterweight contenders, Mikey Garcia and Jessie ...
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Fight Reports 2
Fight Report: Fury vs Wilder II
“As goes the heavyweights, so goes boxing.” It’s an adage that held true for virtually all of the first half of the 20th century, the 60s, 70s, late ...
The Fight City Podcast
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The Fight City Podcast No. 43
Welcome to a new edition of our podcast, with Alden Chodash once again at the helm and offering you an exclusive interview with Joe Smith Jr. who is ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 42
Time for a new edition of our podcast, hosted, as always, by Alden Chodash. On this episode, the focus is on the recently announced Showtime boxing schedule, which ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 41
Time for a new edition of our podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash as he and site contributor Eliott McCormick discuss some of the latest boxing news, ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 40
Welcome to a new episode of our podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, as he and site editor Michael Carbert talk boxing and an array of topics. ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 39
Life goes on, fight freaks! Even with this scary plague they call COVID-19. And if life goes on, then that means Alden Chodash is more than happy to ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 38
New podcast just dropped for all you fight freaks, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, as he and site editor Michael Carbert give you, fresh from the ‘Better ...
Columns
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Columns 11
Happy Birthday To “The Rock”
Today is the birthday of legendary heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano and we’re always going to pay tribute to the one and only “Brockton Blockbuster,” regardless of the fact his famous ...
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Columns 1
Adrien Broner In Perspective: Respect Is Due
He may have proven himself to be a one-man morality tale: the guy who had it all, but then made one too many bad choices and slipped into ...
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Columns 1
Can Wilder Win?
While the whole world, and of course that includes the sports world, is “on pause” due to the deadly pandemic we are all struggling with, the fact remains ...
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Columns 1
Serious Boxers Need Serious Managers
In the movies, they’re almost always unlikable, if not downright treacherous and crooked. Sardonic and cranky, with an ever-present fedora or cigar, their loyalties are hopelessly divided between ...
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Columns 4
Never Bet Against The Gypsy King
There’s an old saying that you should never switch horses midstream. So I should know better. I’m a big Tyson Fury fan, have been for a long time. ...
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Fury vs Wilder II: The Breakdown
It seems strange to know so much about two fighters – their strengths and weaknesses and how their styles mesh –and yet the outcome of a match between ...
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Columns 8
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 9
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, ...
Features
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In Their Own Words
The Sugar Ray Leonard vs Thomas Hearns fight in 1981 was significant for so many reasons. You had two of the best, if not the best, fighters on the planet ...
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15 Kinds Of Fight Fan Heartache
As the world of sports and live entertainment ground to a halt this year, boxing fans endured months without any ring action at all, as some excellent scheduled ...
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Corona Crossroads: Alvarez vs Smith Preview
Fans of Eleider Alvarez will certainly appreciate the irony of the Columbian-Montrealer having his most active year as a pro since 2017 under the shadow of COVID-19. The ...
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Plaster of Torrance (Part Two)
Plaster of Torrance: Unwrapping the Meaning of Antonio Margarito, Part Two. Excerpted from The Bittersweet Science. There are times when boxing matches resemble more a bullfight than they ...
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Plaster Of Torrance (Part One)
Last week we marked the anniversary of the legendary first battle between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito. To pay further tribute to this remarkable fight, we would like ...
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Older Than You Think
Like everyone else during the quarantine, I’ve been desperate for boxing content in the months between live cards. Aside from YouTube rabbit holes, I also dove into books ...
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Fifty Epic Fights: The 1990s
We got some bad news, fellow fight fans: looks like COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere, at least not for quite a while. So, depending on where you reside, you ...
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Fear And Loathing In Zaire
Hunter S. Thompson is undoubtedly an icon of the “counter-culture” movement. He was also undoubtedly a miserable failure as a boxing writer. A motorcycle-racing, gun-loving, Nixon-hating, booze-swilling, narcotic-ingesting ...
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The Super Middleweight Super Six
Since being established by the major sanctioning bodies in the mid-80s, the super middleweight class has produced some classic contests. I was fortunate to grow into an avid ...
Lee Wylie
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The Tao Of Roberto Duran
It’s been almost two decades since the final entry in the records books for the legendary prizefighter they called “Manos de Piedra,” but the standing of Roberto Duran ...
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Nicolino Locche: Portrait Of A Genius
As all admirers of Lee Wylie are no doubt aware, he is an aficionado of the finer points of boxing technique, the often overlooked subtleties and arcane methods ...
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Floyd Mayweather: Best Of A Generation
Three years ago today, it was “The Money Fight,” Conor McGregor vs Floyd Mayweather, the biggest event in boxing; in fact, one of the biggest events in all ...
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Lee Wylie 1
Eddie Futch: Deposing The Greatest
There’s never a bad time to pay tribute to an all-time great trainer and boxing genius, but with tomorrow being the anniversary of the birth of the one-and-only ...
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Lee Wylie 0
Superman: The Genius Of Jones Jr.
Twenty-two years ago, everyone knew that Roy Jones Jr. was “Superman.” Yes, he had suffered a disqualification defeat to Montell Griffin the year before, but that did nothing ...
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Lee Wylie 1
Roberto Duran: Scientific Street Fighting
A few days ago the coronavirus pandemic registered a direct and major hit on the boxing world when it was announced that none other than the legendary “Manos ...
boxiana
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Boxiana 8
Marciano vs Charles II
On this day back in 1954, Rocky Marciano and Ezzard Charles clashed at Yankee Stadium to contest, for the second time in just three months, the heavyweight championship ...
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Boxiana 2
Sept. 16, 1981: Leonard vs Hearns
In the summer of 1981, only two boxers mattered in America: WBA welterweight champion Thomas Hearns, and WBC welterweight champion Sugar Ray Leonard. Since the previous fall, when ...
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Boxiana 2
Sept. 14, 1923: Dempsey vs Firpo
After more than nine decades it may be difficult to appreciate the impact of the legendary Dempsey vs Firpo fight and how it transformed the public image of ...
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Boxiana 0
Sept. 12, 1992: Chavez vs Camacho (Part Two)
Click here to read part I of the tale of Chavez vs Camacho. With a delirious crowd awaiting the opening bell, JCC walked through a mob from his ...
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Boxiana 0
Sept. 12, 1992: Chavez vs Camacho (Part One)
The ring, like the arena that housed it, was filled to capacity. The final bell had rung and dozens of people climbed through the ropes for the rituals ...
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Boxiana 0
Sept. 12, 1951: Robinson vs Turpin
The first Robinson vs Turpin battle took place in London, England just two months before the second, and it will forever stand as one of the greatest upsets ...
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Boxiana 4
The Fight That Never Was
Back during that awful time when for five long years it seemed Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao would never, ever meet in the ring, pundits and historians mused ...
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Boxiana 15
Sept. 10, 1973: Ali vs Norton II
It had been years since Muhammad Ali worked with such intensity and purpose, years since he had forced his body to undergo the torture necessary to reach supreme ...
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Boxiana 3
Sept. 9, 1983: Pryor vs Arguello II
Do a Google search for Alexis Arguello and you end up with photos and videos about Aaron Pryor. Do one for Aaron Pryor and you end up with ...
Fight City Reviews
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Fight City Reviews 2
McIlvanney On Boxing
A.J. Liebling will always be boxing’s literary standard bearer, his masterwork The Sweet Science and other books certain to find appreciative fans through the generations. If there’s a ...
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Fight City Reviews 3
Sun Kil Moon: “Salvador Sanchez”
In Salvador Sanchez, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek walks amongst men who died much too soon. Such deaths are tragic by definition, but in the case of the men depicted ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Fist of the Reich
Max Schmeling was the first German-born world heavyweight champion and the only boxer to defeat Joe Louis in “The Brown Bomber’s” prime. A sporting hero to the German people, he risked ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Reading The Fights
At first glance, Reading the Fights is a compendium of insightful essays which alternate between examining the responses boxing evokes and bringing to life stories of its past, thus providing ...
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Fight City Reviews 5
The Mysterious Champion
Few champions have ever inspired as much public ambivalence, mistrust, and scorn as Sonny Liston. The frequently violent events of a life spent underneath the bright lights of ...
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Fight City Reviews 2
Off The Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story
I loved it. I loved it. I loved luring a guy into throwing a punch, then landing my own right hand and hurting him and dropping him. I ...
The Top Twelve
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The Top Twelve 4
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Uncrowned Champions
For most of boxing history, world title belts didn’t grow on trees, as they say, and even title shots were a rare and much sought-after commodity. Competition was ...
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The Top Twelve 0
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Rivalries
The best boxing rivalries are about more than a series of action-packed fights. Great rivalries are stories, absorbing narratives that capture the attention of legions of fans and ...
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Top 12 All-Time “Dirtiest” Champs
A comprehensive roster of boxers who dabbled in the darker arts of ring-craft would rival a catalogue of the soldiers who ringed the walls of Troy, or a ...
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The Top Twelve 2
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Mexico vs Puerto Rico Fights
The phrase “hot Latin blood,” coined to describe the alleged fiery temperament of Spanish speakers on the planet, goes back well into the 19th century. So maybe it ...
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The Top Twelve 3
Top 12 All-Time Most Cerebral Boxers
It takes more than strength, punching power and great conditioning to become a champion prizefighter. Mastery of footwork, angles, feinting, defense and the ability to adapt to an ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Catchers
On this day way back in 1922, the man they would come to call “The Bronx Bull” was born. Jake LaMotta would go on to not only become ...
