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April 22, 1979: Johnson vs Franklin
Their first meeting, in July of 1977, was a thrilling war, called one of the most sensational fights in the history of the Philadelphia Spectrum. As any knowledgeable ...
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April 22, 2001: Lewis vs Rahman I
The creation of history can be as forgettable as it is memorable. On April 22, 2001, in Carnival City, South Africa, American heavyweight Hasim Rahman knocked out Lennox ...
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April 21, 1962: Brown vs Ortiz
They called him “Old Bones” because they needed something to liven up his image and distinguish him from all the other Joe Browns in America, but also because ...
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Fight Report: Crawford vs Khan
On Saturday night, over 14,000 fans were in attendance at Madison Square Garden to watch Terence “Bud” Crawford defend his WBO welterweight title against former 140-lb champion, Amir ...
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April 20, 1960: Fullmer vs Giardello
As most boxing fans know, they made a movie about wrongly imprisoned middleweight contender Rubin “Hurricane” Carter with Denzel Washington in the leading role. And while no doubt ...
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April 19, 1991: Holyfield vs Foreman
When news came in 1987 that former heavyweight champion George Foreman, who had retired almost a decade before to become an evangelical pastor, intended to embark on a ...
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April 18, 1998: Eubank vs Thompson
Chris Eubank was always a mighty specimen. Sleekly muscled during his reigns as middle and super-middleweight champion, it should have come as no surprise when he gatecrashed the ...
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If Only … 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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Dicaire Defeats Lauren At Montreal Casino
This past weekend was a huge one for women’s boxing, a sport growing in appeal at the same time that its top competitors appear to be elevating their ...
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April 16, 1952: Robinson vs Graziano
Sometimes match-ups that appear obvious, can’t-miss attractions, just don’t happen for whatever reason. Such was the case with Sugar Ray Robinson and Rocky Graziano. Both were based in ...
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April 15, 1985: Hagler vs Hearns
Hagler vs Hearns. Next to The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, maybe the most famous boxing match in middleweight history. Billed as simply “The Fight,” what is there to ...
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April 14, 1979: Galindez vs Rossman II
The Latin code of “machismo” is a harsh one. Pain, weakness or humility do not exist for the true “macho man” who will concede nothing, who will never ...
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Jose Napoles: Artful Aggression
At its technical height, the skill of boxing is all about making offense and defense blend together into one seamless athletic act. No matter where you rank Jose ...
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Top 12 All-Time Best Middleweights
The middleweights have traditionally been regarded as one of the sport’s true “glamour” divisions, boasting some of the best talent to ever lace ’em up and some of ...
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April 11, 1981: Holmes vs Berbick
In 1981 few doubted that Larry Holmes was one of the best boxers in the world, but rarely had the holder of the most coveted prize in all ...
The Fight City
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Dicaire Defeats Lauren At Montreal Casino
This past weekend was a huge one for women’s boxing, a sport growing in appeal at the same time that its top competitors appear to be elevating their ...
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Guy Jutras: Hall Of Fame Bound
In the sport of boxing, it is often said that the best referees are invisible; when they’re doing their job right, you hardly notice them at all. But ...
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Back In The Win Column
As chronicled in detail on this website, the boxing journey of Ian MacKillop is a unique story unto itself as he has truly led a fighter’s life, traveling all ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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 ...
Fight Reports
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Fight Report: Crawford vs Khan
On Saturday night, over 14,000 fans were in attendance at Madison Square Garden to watch Terence “Bud” Crawford defend his WBO welterweight title against former 140-lb champion, Amir ...
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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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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 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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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, ...
The Fight City Podcast
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Fight City Podcast No. 19
Welcome to a brand new episode of our podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, who this week is joined by site contributor Jamie Rebner. A full slate ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 18
We got another great episode of The Fight City Podcast hot off the grill for you hungry fight fans, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, as he and site ...
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The 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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Amir Khan: Enigmatic To The End
Amir Khan may be the nicest man I’ve spoken to in the entire fight game. If I had to consider all the people I’ve shared a few words ...
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If Only … 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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The Portis Pound-For-Pound
The other week Max Kellerman, currently pugilism’s premier talking head, released his new, updated pound-for-pound rankings and it sent all the hardcore boxing geeks into a tizzy. For ...
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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 ...
Features
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Fight Report: Crawford vs Khan
On Saturday night, over 14,000 fans were in attendance at Madison Square Garden to watch Terence “Bud” Crawford defend his WBO welterweight title against former 140-lb champion, Amir ...
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Another St. Patrick’s Day, another big show in New York with Ireland’s Michael Conlan as the headliner. Fight fans got their money’s worth as every match on the ...
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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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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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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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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, ...
Lee Wylie
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Jose Napoles: Artful Aggression
At its technical height, the skill of boxing is all about making offense and defense blend together into one seamless athletic act. No matter where you rank Jose ...
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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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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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Zarate vs Zamora
In 1977, boxing’s two best bantamweights were both tremendous punchers, both undefeated, both champions, and both Mexican. A showdown was inevitable. It was a match everyone knew could ...
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April 22, 1979: Johnson vs Franklin
Their first meeting, in July of 1977, was a thrilling war, called one of the most sensational fights in the history of the Philadelphia Spectrum. As any knowledgeable ...
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Boxiana 0
April 22, 2001: Lewis vs Rahman I
The creation of history can be as forgettable as it is memorable. On April 22, 2001, in Carnival City, South Africa, American heavyweight Hasim Rahman knocked out Lennox ...
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April 21, 1962: Brown vs Ortiz
They called him “Old Bones” because they needed something to liven up his image and distinguish him from all the other Joe Browns in America, but also because ...
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Boxiana 1
April 20, 1960: Fullmer vs Giardello
As most boxing fans know, they made a movie about wrongly imprisoned middleweight contender Rubin “Hurricane” Carter with Denzel Washington in the leading role. And while no doubt ...
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April 19, 1991: Holyfield vs Foreman
When news came in 1987 that former heavyweight champion George Foreman, who had retired almost a decade before to become an evangelical pastor, intended to embark on a ...
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April 18, 1998: Eubank vs Thompson
Chris Eubank was always a mighty specimen. Sleekly muscled during his reigns as middle and super-middleweight champion, it should have come as no surprise when he gatecrashed the ...
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April 16, 1952: Robinson vs Graziano
Sometimes match-ups that appear obvious, can’t-miss attractions, just don’t happen for whatever reason. Such was the case with Sugar Ray Robinson and Rocky Graziano. Both were based in ...
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April 15, 1985: Hagler vs Hearns
Hagler vs Hearns. Next to The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, maybe the most famous boxing match in middleweight history. Billed as simply “The Fight,” what is there to ...
Fight City Reviews
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Punching From The Shadows
In labeling Punching from the Shadows a memoir, Glen Sharp might be selling short his autobiographical work. More than a memoir, Sharp presents in his book a thorough ...
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Fight City Reviews 1
McIlvanney On Boxing
A.J. Liebling will always be boxing’s literary standard bearer, his masterwork The Sweet Science certain to find appreciative fans through the generations. If there’s a top table of ...
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Ali: A Life
The latest biography of Muhammad Ali, surely the most written-about boxer in history, is also the longest, and will be among the best-selling and most-read. Jonathan Eig’s Ali: A ...
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Fight City Reviews 2
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 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 ...
The Top Twelve
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Top 12 All-Time Best Middleweights
The middleweights have traditionally been regarded as one of the sport’s true “glamour” divisions, boasting some of the best talent to ever lace ’em up and some of ...
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Top 12 Most Significant Fights In Boxing History
There are big fights which all boxing fans want to see, and then there are the monumental clashes that attract attention from all corners and have a lasting ...
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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 ...
