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March 17, 1990: Chavez vs Taylor I
Few “super fights” fully live up to the expectations aroused when they are initially announced, and even rarer are the ones that surpass them. But only a handful completely ...
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The Fight City 0
Two Shows For The Tigers
If anyone needed further evidence to confirm the enviable depth of Eye of the Tiger Management’s stable of fighting talent, Saturday’s double-header at the Montreal Casino provided ample ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Spence vs Garcia
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” Clearly the likes of “Barbados” Joe Walcott (who originally coined the phrase) and Bob Fitzsimmons didn’t think much of size ...
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Features 3
When Thunder and Lightning Struck
One of my earliest boxing-related memories happened when I was seven. On a warm Saturday night my parents took me to my favorite restaurant, the one that served ...
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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 ...
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Method To The Madness?
I’m moving up two weight divisions, and not just to fight any welterweight, but Errol Spence. At first glance, it seems nuts. –Mikey Garcia Four-division titlist and counter-puncher ...
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Michael Conlan: Irish Ambition
At the end of every Olympic cycle, a horde of bluechip prospects storms boxing’s pro ranks hoping to secure marquee promotional backing and begin the quest for glory ...
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Boxiana 0
March 13, 1963: Clay vs Jones
No matter how talented, how impressive their amateur credentials, or how good they may look in the gym, you can never know for sure what a young boxing ...
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Boxiana 0
Fight City Legends: The Barbados Demon
With Mikey Garcia, a former featherweight, about to challenge full-fledged welterweight Errol Spence Jr. on Saturday, the factor of weight is on the minds of boxing fans. Though ...
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Spence vs Garcia: The Fight City Picks
Errol Spence and Mikey Garcia are two of the best talents in boxing today. Both are champions; both are undefeated. However, few, if any, foresaw a clash between ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 16
Welcome back to a new edition of The Fight City Podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash. This week he and site contributor Jamie Rebner discuss the past ...
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Boxiana 0
March 11, 1989: Holyfield vs Dokes
When Evander Holyfield and Michael Dokes clashed for the WBC Continental Americas Title back in 1989, the result was a battle which some later called the heavyweight fight of ...
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Lee Wylie 5
The Fighter Of The Decade, Part Four
In our final look at the top candidates for Fighter Of The Decade, we consider Roman Gonzalez, aka “Chocolatito,” who, it should be remembered, was at the top ...
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The Weekend That Was
In case the sport of boxing wasn’t brutal enough inside the ring, Maurice “Mighty Mo” Hooker and “Showtime” Shawn Porter showed just how taxing it could be outside ...
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The Fight City 0
Fight Night At Grant Brothers
One of the chief reasons Montreal is “The Fight City” is numbers, simple mathematics. Yeah, it’s a big metropolis, but even so, name another city with a population ...
The Fight City
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The Fight City 0
Two Shows For The Tigers
If anyone needed further evidence to confirm the enviable depth of Eye of the Tiger Management’s stable of fighting talent, Saturday’s double-header at the Montreal Casino provided ample ...
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The Fight City 0
Fight Night At Grant Brothers
One of the chief reasons Montreal is “The Fight City” is numbers, simple mathematics. Yeah, it’s a big metropolis, but even so, name another city with a population ...
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The Fight City 0
Big Wins For Theroux And ‘Free Boy’
It’s only February but already 2019 is proving to be an outstanding year for fisticuffs at the Cabaret Room in the Casino de Montreal with a couple of ...
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The Fight City 0
Casino Classic
When Canadian boxing fans look back on 2019, Eye of the Tiger Management’s first gala of the year at the Montreal Casino may well be viewed as the ...
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The Fight City 0
What’s Next For Oscar Rivas?
The pro career of Oscar Rivas has been one beset with as many frustrations and delays as it has enjoyed big wins and forward momentum. Thus, his victory ...
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The Fight City 1
Yves Ulysse: Time To Shine
When you walk up the stairs leading to Club De Boxe Champions on Belanger Street in the Saint-Michel district of Montreal, you are climbing the same steps that ...
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The Fight City 3
Double Standards
Adonis Stevenson has been a world boxing champion since June of 2013 but during that time, instead of establishing recognition as one of the best belt-holders of recent ...
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The Fight City 0
Setback For Lafreniere; Big Win For Luis
On a boxing-rich day for Canadian fight fans — with Steven Butler headlining in Rimouski and Jean Pascal challenging for a world title in Atlantic City — Groupe ...
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The Fight City 0
KO’s For Francis And Shak
Another week, another boxing card at the Montreal Casino, this time from Groupe Yvon Michel. The week before saw Eye Of The Tiger put on a major show there ...
Fight Reports
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Spence vs Garcia
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” Clearly the likes of “Barbados” Joe Walcott (who originally coined the phrase) and Bob Fitzsimmons didn’t think much of size ...
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Fight Report: DeGale vs Eubank Jr.
As James DeGale raised his arm following the conclusion of his bout with Chris Eubank Jr, it seemed more of a departing gesture than the act of a ...
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Fight Reports 0
Carto Crashes In Philly
The “Philly Special” was a homegrown night at the fights that ended with almost nothing going as I expected it would, a night wherein fans’ heightened emotions were ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Thurman vs Lopez
As the old adage has it in the sport of boxing, you’re only as good as your last fight. The assumption of course being that you compete often ...
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Fight Reports 0
Pacquiao Beats Broner: The Last Big Win?
There was no reason for Manny Pacquiao vs Adrien Broner to be a meaningful fight and in the end it was a bit on the sound and fury, ...
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DAZN Does The Garden
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez might be more of a household name than any other active fighter in boxing right now, but last night he Canelo performed at the historic ...
The Fight City Podcast
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Fight City Podcast No. 17
We got another great episode of The Fight City Podcast for all you fight fans, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, as we recap the Errol Spence vs ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 16
Welcome back to a new edition of The Fight City Podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash. This week he and site contributor Jamie Rebner discuss the past ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 15
Time for another edition of The Fight City podcast, hosted by Alden Chodash who this week is joined by site editor Michael Carbert. Strap in, as Alden breaks down the chaos at ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 14
Time for another edition of The Fight City podcast, hosted by Alden Chodash who this week is joined by both site ringleader Michael Carbert and contributor Jamie Rebner. The program begins ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 13
Time for another edition of The Fight City podcast, hosted by Alden Chodash, with site editor Michael Carbert also offering his insights as they look back on the big fights ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 12
Welcome to another edition of The Fight City podcast, hosted by Alden Chodash, who this week gets a welcome respite while Michael Carbert and Rafael Garcia discuss, among other things, ...
Columns
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Like It Or Not, The Throne Is Empty
A few months ago we witnessed one of the more memorable heavyweight battles of recent years as alphabet titleholder and top-two contender Deontay Wilder faced off against the last ...
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Method To The Madness?
I’m moving up two weight divisions, and not just to fight any welterweight, but Errol Spence. At first glance, it seems nuts. –Mikey Garcia Four-division titlist and counter-puncher ...
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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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Kovalev Returns! (With Some Help From “Buddy”)
The bell had yet to ring to start the fight, but the outcome was already decided. Sergey Kovalev was finished and about to get his butt kicked for ...
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The Case Against Big George
In a recent article contemplating a fantasy rematch between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, esteemed boxing writer Thomas Hauser stated that people who “really know” boxing regard Foreman ...
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The End Of An Aura
It’s surprising how far and how fast a fighter’s star can fall when a once-fearsome aura is finally burst. It’s just a few short years ago that Sergey ...
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Pacquiao vs Broner: Prelude To MayPac II?
It’s the big showdown in Vegas tonight, Pac vs Broner, but don’t be fooled fight fans. What it’s really all about is Floyd “Money” Mayweather. That’s right, people; ...
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Back To Vegas
This Saturday night, ring legend Manny Pacquiao will hear the opening bell as a pro for the 70th time in his career. He will do so at a ...
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Manny Pacquiao: The True Believer
Manny Pacquiao dances with boxing like a jilted lover. The twists and turns retain their technical grace, but lack the fluidity and passion as when the love was ...
Features
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Spence vs Garcia
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” Clearly the likes of “Barbados” Joe Walcott (who originally coined the phrase) and Bob Fitzsimmons didn’t think much of size ...
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Features 3
When Thunder and Lightning Struck
One of my earliest boxing-related memories happened when I was seven. On a warm Saturday night my parents took me to my favorite restaurant, the one that served ...
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Features 2
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 ...
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Features 0
Michael Conlan: Irish Ambition
At the end of every Olympic cycle, a horde of bluechip prospects storms boxing’s pro ranks hoping to secure marquee promotional backing and begin the quest for glory ...
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Features 0
Spence vs Garcia: The Fight City Picks
Errol Spence and Mikey Garcia are two of the best talents in boxing today. Both are champions; both are undefeated. However, few, if any, foresaw a clash between ...
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The Weekend That Was
In case the sport of boxing wasn’t brutal enough inside the ring, Maurice “Mighty Mo” Hooker and “Showtime” Shawn Porter showed just how taxing it could be outside ...
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Arthur Mercante Jr.: An Honest Ref
It’s safe to say that boxing officials are held to a very high standard, because not only can a slip-up result in a loss of control, but occasionally, ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: DeGale vs Eubank Jr.
As James DeGale raised his arm following the conclusion of his bout with Chris Eubank Jr, it seemed more of a departing gesture than the act of a ...
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“Where’s the love?” Interview With Vanes Martirosyan
It wasn’t long ago that the landscape of boxing was decorated with Don King attractions. Since King entered the sport in the early 1970s, boxing’s most infamous promoter ...
Lee Wylie
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The Fighter Of The Decade, Part Four
In our final look at the top candidates for Fighter Of The Decade, we consider Roman Gonzalez, aka “Chocolatito,” who, it should be remembered, was at the top ...
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The Fighter Of The Decade, Part Three
Whether or not he deserves consideration as “TBE,” when all is said and done, Floyd Mayweather Jr. definitely deserves consideration as one of the very best pugilists, pound-for-pound, of the ...
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Lee Wylie 2
The Fighter Of The Decade, Part Two
He won a major title in 2010 and then bludgeoned his way into the consciousness of serious boxing fans the following year in his stateside debut. What followed ...
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The Fighter Of The Decade, Part One
There are still many months left in 2019 but the discussion and debate is already heating up as to who are the front-runners for Fighter Of The Decade. ...
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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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Roberto Duran: Control
Any intelligent ranking of the greatest boxers to have ever lived, pound-for-pound, will be dominated by names from the past as the simple fact is that the Golden ...
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McCrory vs Jones I
In the late 70’s and early 80’s professional prizefighting was enjoying a serious resurgence with major stars such as Hearns, Hagler, Mancini, Duran, Arguello and Holmes inspiring keen ...
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Boxiana 12
March 17, 1990: Chavez vs Taylor I
Few “super fights” fully live up to the expectations aroused when they are initially announced, and even rarer are the ones that surpass them. But only a handful completely ...
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Boxiana 0
March 13, 1963: Clay vs Jones
No matter how talented, how impressive their amateur credentials, or how good they may look in the gym, you can never know for sure what a young boxing ...
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Boxiana 0
Fight City Legends: The Barbados Demon
With Mikey Garcia, a former featherweight, about to challenge full-fledged welterweight Errol Spence Jr. on Saturday, the factor of weight is on the minds of boxing fans. Though ...
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Boxiana 0
March 11, 1989: Holyfield vs Dokes
When Evander Holyfield and Michael Dokes clashed for the WBC Continental Americas Title back in 1989, the result was a battle which some later called the heavyweight fight of ...
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March 8, 1971: Ali vs Frazier I
Back in 2015, immediately following the announcement of a Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao match finally being signed and sealed, excited boxing pundits began searching for comparisons. How ...
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Boxiana 0
March 5, 1943: Jack vs Zivic
In decades past the boxing world was an even tougher and less forgiving place than it is today, not to mention more crooked. Fighters were fighters, not businessmen, ...
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Boxiana 0
March 4, 1961: Robinson vs Fullmer IV
Let us journey back, boxing fans, to a time when the best fought the best and did so not once every couple of years but whenever the occasion ...
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March 2, 1980: Kenty vs Espana
After decades of decline, Detroit, Michigan, attempted to reverse the years of stagnation and neglect and reassert itself in the late 70s as one of America’s great cities. A ...
Fight City Reviews
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Fight City Reviews 1
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 ...
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Fight City Reviews 2
The Bittersweet Science
“The more you know about boxing, the more you discover that you never truly know what’s going on,” write editors Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra in their introduction ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Yo, Adrian! Here We Go Again!
And so I’ve now seen Creed II, the successful sequel to the surprisingly effective and popular 2015 film, Creed. In this second installment, Adonis Creed, son of deceased ...
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Fight City Reviews 2
Sonny Liston: 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 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 6
The Luminous Cube And The Roaring Darkness
“Boxing is especially valuable, and there are few spectacles as healthy and beautiful as a boxing match.” These are the words of a 26-year-old Vladimir Nabokov, taken from ...
The Top Twelve
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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 “Philly” Champs
Rocky is a great movie, and Creed was pretty good, but they get my town all wrong when it comes to boxing. The films portray Philadelphia as a city ...
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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 Reasons Why Ali Is Forever The Greatest
Today is the anniversary of the birth of the amazing athlete who changed boxing forever, only the third such anniversary since his death in June of 2016. Muhammad ...
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Top 12 All-Time “Dirtiest” Champs
A comprehensive roster of boxers who dabbled in the darker arts of ringcraft would rival a catalogue of the soldiers who ringed the walls of Troy, or a ...
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Pernell Whitaker: Best Of The Decade
Today is Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker’s birthday, the bonafide all-time great turning 55 and what better way to pay tribute to him and say “Happy Birthday” than to ...
