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July 12, 1986: Holyfield vs Qawi
You rarely see fighters who love the sheer brutality of boxing as much as Dwight Muhammad Qawi once did. Fighters who smile when they take punches. Fighters who ...
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July 12, 1948: Williams vs Jack
By 1948, everybody knew the party was almost over for Beau Jack. The former lightweight king and the all-time champ when it came to headlining main events at Madison Square ...
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Boxiana 3
July 11, 1996: Bowe vs Golota I
Golota gets eleven stitches, his head smashed open with a two-way radio. His trainer, 74-year-old Lou Duva, leaves the ring on a stretcher and is taken to hospital. ...
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The Top Twelve 0
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 ...
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Boxiana 2
July 9, 1989: Rosario vs Jones
When we compare and rank boxers of the past, something all serious fight fans love to do, one of the key criteria is longevity. This has less to ...
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Features 0
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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Boxiana 0
The Tale Of Willie And Bill
One of the more intriguing and, sadly, forgotten boxing rivalries is the classic six bout series between Pittsburgh’s own William P. Davies, aka “Wee Willie,” and Cuba’s Eladio ...
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Boxiana 0
July 7, 1985: Chavez-Mayweather I
It’s 1985 and everyone south of the border already knows who the next great Mexican boxer will be. The only problem is pretty much no one north of ...
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Boxiana 1
July 6, 1979: Gonzalez vs Oguma IV
The career of Betulio Gonzalez, which should be enshrined in the Hall of Fame but for reasons unknown is not, featured numerous clashes with various champions, but was ...
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Tribute To The Cincinnati Cobra (Part Two)
Time for Part II in our three part look at the boxing techniques of the late, great Ezzard Charles, aka “The Cincinnati Cobra.” As stated before, compared to ...
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Boxiana 2
July 4, 1910: Johnson vs Jeffries
In 1910, Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries clashed in Reno, Nevada to contest the world heavyweight crown in what was then billed as “The Fight of the ...
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Top 12 Greatest Roberto Duran Victories
Seems like we had just finished celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first great Duran vs Leonard battle when the awful news came that the man they call ...
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July 2, 1921: Dempsey vs Carpentier
The year was 1921. Jack Dempsey, the heavyweight champion of the world, reigned as the most titanic figure in all of professional sports, though his public image had been recently ...
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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 ...
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Tribute To The Cincinnati Cobra (Part One)
Without a doubt, Ezzard Charles, aka “The Cincinnati Cobra,” is one of the all-time greatest athletes to ever lace up the gloves. And yet, compared to numerous other ...
The Fight City
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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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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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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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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 ...
Fight Reports
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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 1
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 ...
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Fight Reports 0
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 ...
The Fight City Podcast
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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 ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 37
Time for a new podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, who is joined by Michael Carbert to discuss, among other things, the big rematch between Deontay Wilder ...
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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 ...
Columns
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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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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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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 ...
Features
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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 ...
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The Last Time I Sparred
I turned forty-years-old in 1998 and had not boxed competitively for over fifteen years. I still worked out regularly, though I called it “training,” instead of “working out,” ...
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Happy Birthday To Marvelous Marvin
It’s the birthday of “The Marvelous One,” an all-time great middleweight champion who, for close to a full decade, was part of any discussion about the best fighter ...
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Eighty Fights From The 80’s (Part Two)
We know you’ve barely started sampling all the great battles we listed yesterday in Part One of this list, but we promised, and so we deliver: here’s the ...
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Eighty Fights From The 80’s (Part One)
The 1980s were a monumental decade in politics, pop music and, of course, in boxing. Indeed, the eighties stand out for the sheer volume of exciting battles, not ...
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Remembering #MayPac
Five years ago today one of the most eagerly anticipated matches in the long history of professional prizefighting, Mayweather vs Pacquiao, went down in Vegas and our own ...
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Whatever Happened To Scott Harrison?
For a country so small, Scotland has punched well above its weight in producing champion boxers. Benny Lynch, “The Little King of the Gorbals,” famously lit up the ...
Lee Wylie
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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 ...
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Duran’s Killer Technique
We don’t know about you, but for us, the 40th anniversary of “The Brawl In Montreal,” is kind of a big deal. Which shouldn’t come as a surprise ...
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Lee Wylie 0
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 ...
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Lee Wylie 4
Castillo vs Corrales: The Boxers
“Not my usual thing,” wrote Lee Wylie when he posted this video, “but I felt inspired.” Those who are regular viewers of Mr. Wylie’s creations know he is ...
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Lee Wylie 1
The Genius Of Sugar Ray Robinson
For fans of “The Sweet Science,” today should be a very special occasion, if not a national holiday. It’s Sugar Ray Robinson’s birthday and everyone who loves the ...
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Lee Wylie 1
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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Ward vs Augustus
Prior to Micky Ward vs Emanuel Augustus, Fight of the Year laurels were typically reserved for higher profile battles than those headlining ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights” series. Performing ...
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Muhammad vs Lopez II
It was legendary sports scribe Jimmy Cannon who famously stated that boxing was “the red light district of sport,” renowned for its corruption and ties to organized crime. ...
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July 12, 1986: Holyfield vs Qawi
You rarely see fighters who love the sheer brutality of boxing as much as Dwight Muhammad Qawi once did. Fighters who smile when they take punches. Fighters who ...
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Boxiana 0
July 12, 1948: Williams vs Jack
By 1948, everybody knew the party was almost over for Beau Jack. The former lightweight king and the all-time champ when it came to headlining main events at Madison Square ...
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Boxiana 3
July 11, 1996: Bowe vs Golota I
Golota gets eleven stitches, his head smashed open with a two-way radio. His trainer, 74-year-old Lou Duva, leaves the ring on a stretcher and is taken to hospital. ...
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Boxiana 2
July 9, 1989: Rosario vs Jones
When we compare and rank boxers of the past, something all serious fight fans love to do, one of the key criteria is longevity. This has less to ...
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Boxiana 0
The Tale Of Willie And Bill
One of the more intriguing and, sadly, forgotten boxing rivalries is the classic six bout series between Pittsburgh’s own William P. Davies, aka “Wee Willie,” and Cuba’s Eladio ...
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Boxiana 0
July 7, 1985: Chavez-Mayweather I
It’s 1985 and everyone south of the border already knows who the next great Mexican boxer will be. The only problem is pretty much no one north of ...
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Boxiana 1
July 6, 1979: Gonzalez vs Oguma IV
The career of Betulio Gonzalez, which should be enshrined in the Hall of Fame but for reasons unknown is not, featured numerous clashes with various champions, but was ...
Fight City Reviews
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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 ...
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Fight City Reviews 3
The Sweet Science
One of the obvious realizations upon re-reading A.J. Liebling’s The Sweet Science is that while much has changed in the sport over the last sixty years, some things ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Berserk: The Tragic Tale Of Edwin Valero
The story of Edwin Valero is one boxing fans know because of his famously all-action, go-for-broke style—he won all 27 of his pro bouts by knockout—and because of ...
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Fight City Reviews 3
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 ...
The Top Twelve
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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 ...
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The Top Twelve 3
Top 12 Greatest Roberto Duran Victories
Seems like we had just finished celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first great Duran vs Leonard battle when the awful news came that the man they call ...
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Top 12 Reasons Why Ali Is Forever The Greatest
On this day four years ago the world said a final farewell to a legend, a man of enormous social impact, the champion everyone called “The Greatest,” the ...
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Top 12 All-Time Most Significant Fights
There are plenty of big battles in boxing history which all fight fans want to see, and then there are the monumental clashes that attract attention from all ...
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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 ...
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The Top 12 All-Time Greatest Mexican Boxers
A while back your preferred kick-ass boxing website had a special week on Mexican pugilists called “Mexican Style” and part of it was a spirited debate regarding just ...
