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Joshua vs Usyk: The Fight City Picks
A long, long time ago, back before anyone had ever heard of something called “COVID-19,” we published a list of the fights we really wanted to see in ...
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Boxiana 8
Sept. 23, 1952: Marciano vs Walcott I
After a record breaking reign atop the big man division, the great Joe Louis finally retired in 1948, and in the years immediately following, boxing struggled to find ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 51
It’s been a while since Alden Chodash took the helm for a full-fledged edition of our podcast, that is, one which ranges over a number of topics and ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
The Long Count
More than nine decades have passed since the rematch between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey took place on a brisk September evening at Chicago’s Soldier Field in 1927, ...
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Boxiana 1
Sept. 21, 1985: Holmes vs Spinks I
In March of 1985, heavyweight champion Larry Holmes scored a tenth round stoppage of undefeated contender David Bey and then immediately announced that he was done. As in, ...
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Top 12 All-Time Most Significant Fights
There are of course many high-profile clashes in boxing history which have brought out big crowds and made a serious splash, but then there are the truly monumental ...
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Boxiana 4
Sept. 19, 1980: Pintor vs Owen
For those who had never seen Johnny Owen perform, the impossibly thin and impossibly pale man who made his way to the ring in the Olympic Auditorium in ...
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Lee Wylie 3
Wylie On Pep: Subtle Sophistication
Today is the anniversary of the birth of one of boxing’s singular champions, the greatest featherweight of all-time and a true original, Willie Pep. And while he passed ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Gentleman Jim Speaks
Originally published in 1925, The Roar of the Crowd is an entertaining first-person account of the pugilistic glories of heavyweight champion ‘Gentleman Jim’ Corbett, considered by some to ...
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Boxiana 6
Sept. 17, 1954: Marciano vs Charles
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 3
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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Canelo vs Golovkin II: The Last Word
It was three years ago today that boxing finally got the rematch it needed: Golovkin vs Canelo II. The word ‘finally’ here is a loaded one, with various ...
fight reports
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Usyk vs Joshua
Back in 1985, Michael Spinks, the undisputed champion of the 175 pound division, challenged long-time heavyweight king Larry Holmes. It was an intriguing match-up for sure, but at ...
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Fight Reports 0
The Weekend That Was (No. 18)
Saturday night’s main event may go down as one of the most significant fights of recent years, if indeed it marks the final act in a truly legendary ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Pacquiao vs Ugas
The well had to run dry sooner or later. Finally, for Manny Pacquiao, it did. The Filipino great made all the right noises and looked the part in ...
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The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 17)
Some significant match-ups and some significant results played out this past weekend, so once again, our own Alden Chodash has your concise recap of the weekend’s major action ...
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Fight Report: Charlo vs Castano
Undisputed champions are a rarity in boxing, and the feat is only getting harder to accomplish with the proliferation of titles. After Bernard Hopkins became the first man ...
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The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 16)
This past weekend saw some top fighters in action and some truly important fights, so naturally our own Alden Chodash has your concise recap podcast to make sure ...
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Robinson vs Basilio
The great Sugar Ray Robinson had retired from boxing, had been singing and tap-dancing for three years. He didn’t have much success, so he came back to the ...
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Boxiana 8
Sept. 23, 1952: Marciano vs Walcott I
After a record breaking reign atop the big man division, the great Joe Louis finally retired in 1948, and in the years immediately following, boxing struggled to find ...
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Boxiana 1
Sept. 21, 1985: Holmes vs Spinks I
In March of 1985, heavyweight champion Larry Holmes scored a tenth round stoppage of undefeated contender David Bey and then immediately announced that he was done. As in, ...
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Boxiana 4
Sept. 19, 1980: Pintor vs Owen
For those who had never seen Johnny Owen perform, the impossibly thin and impossibly pale man who made his way to the ring in the Olympic Auditorium in ...
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Boxiana 6
Sept. 17, 1954: Marciano vs Charles
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 3
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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Sept. 12, 1992: Chavez vs Camacho (Part II)
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 I)
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 ...
The Fight City
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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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Time For “The Cobra” To Strike
What does it take to build a world champion? “It’s like a puzzle,” says Ian MacKillop, head trainer of Montreal’s Donnybrook Boxing club. “And if you don’t have ...
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Claggett vs Germain II: Rivalry Renewed
It’s been a time of turbulence and adversity for Mathieu “G-Time” Germain, but this past Saturday proved that all he’s endured over the last two difficult years was ...
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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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The Fight City 0
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 ...
Features
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Joshua vs Usyk: The Fight City Picks
A long, long time ago, back before anyone had ever heard of something called “COVID-19,” we published a list of the fights we really wanted to see in ...
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Features 9
Canelo vs Golovkin II: The Last Word
It was three years ago today that boxing finally got the rematch it needed: Golovkin vs Canelo II. The word ‘finally’ here is a loaded one, with various ...
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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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Still Stuck in Time: Manny, Marquez & Me
“Hard right hand by Marquez and for the first time in four fights Manny Pacquiao has been knocked down!” “Are you fucking kidding me?!” So I screamed at ...
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Frampton vs Santa Cruz: Two Is Enough
The end of a champion’s career is naturally a time for reflection, and it so happens that the boxing journeys of two linked fighters appear to be winding ...
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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 ...
Fight City Reviews
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The Long Count
More than nine decades have passed since the rematch between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey took place on a brisk September evening at Chicago’s Soldier Field in 1927, ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Gentleman Jim Speaks
Originally published in 1925, The Roar of the Crowd is an entertaining first-person account of the pugilistic glories of heavyweight champion ‘Gentleman Jim’ Corbett, considered by some to ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
One Night In Vegas
Part of ESPN’s acclaimed 30 for 30 series, One Night in Vegas offers fans of boxing and Mike Tyson something other than a conventional documentary on the exploits of “Iron ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
The Calling Of Saint Rocky
The series began with The Prizefighter And The Lady, and then it continued with Requiem For A Heavyweight. Now writers David Curcio and Andrew Rihn turn their insightful ...
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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 1
The Gods Of War
One of the best parts about being a boxing fan is the vitality of the sport’s history and the spirited debates and discussions that arise from it. The ...
Columns
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Happy Birthday To “The Rock”
Today is the birthday of legendary heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano and we will always pay tribute to the one and only “Brockton Blockbuster,” regardless of the fact his famous ...
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On Eddie Futch
Perhaps it’s just me but I get the feeling Eddie Futch , who was born on this date 110 years ago, wouldn’t be too comfortable in today’s boxing ...
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When Fighters Fought
Speaking for fans of a certain vintage, we all have a special set of boxers, the ones that forged our love for the sport, the ones on those ...
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It’s Time: The Dream vs The Takeover
Last night saw a big win both for the boxer they call “The Dream,” and for the increasingly precarious enterprise that is professional prizefighting. Undefeated lightweight titlist Devin ...
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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 ...
lee wylie
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Wylie On Pep: Subtle Sophistication
Today is the anniversary of the birth of one of boxing’s singular champions, the greatest featherweight of all-time and a true original, Willie Pep. And while he passed ...
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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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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 2
An Ode To The Sweet Science
To state the obvious, the history of boxing is an especially rich one. Perhaps more than any other sport, its past enriches the present. Serious enthusiasts of “The ...
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Lee Wylie 1
Louis & Napoles: Practical Precision
Technically sound footwork in boxing is about moving just enough to accomplish a purpose, while keeping your opponent guessing. And in the case of boxers who happen to ...
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Lee Wylie 1
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 ...
podcast
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The Fight City Podcast No. 51
It’s been a while since Alden Chodash took the helm for a full-fledged edition of our podcast, that is, one which ranges over a number of topics and ...
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Podcast 0
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 ...
The Top Twelve
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Top 12 All-Time Most Significant Fights
There are of course many high-profile clashes in boxing history which have brought out big crowds and made a serious splash, but then there are the truly monumental ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Flyweights
We started with the middleweights, then the bantamweights, followed by the light heavyweights. Continuing our rankings of the greatest boxers in each of the original eight weight classes, ...
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Top 12 All-Time Best Larry & Lampley Moments
Last Saturday a 42-year-old Manny Pacquiao stepped into the ring, and even before the opening bell one sensed the curtain was descending on an extraordinary career. This feeling ...
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Top 12 Greatest ‘WTF’ Pacman Moments
At this point it’s anybody’s guess how much longer Manny Pacquiao will continue boxing, but what is known beyond a shadow of a doubt is that, win or ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Light Heavyweights
Continuing our infrequent rankings of the all-time greatest boxers in each of the original eight weight classes, we offer our third installment in the series. We started with ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Body Punchers
Body punchers don’t get enough love. Dramatic instances where a paralyzing left hook to the liver or a crushing right to the ribs produces a KO aside, much ...