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Oct. 16, 1987: Tyson vs Biggs
It is 1987 and nothing and no one can stop heavyweight wrecking machine Mike Tyson. The year before he had blown away Trevor Berbick in two rounds to become ...
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Oct. 16, 1970: Olivares vs Castillo
The rivalry between Ruben Olivares and Jesus Castillo—one of the most revered in Mexican boxing lore—took place in an era when the bantamweight division was dominated by Mexicans, with the great ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 52
Last week the third chapter in the Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder tale went down in Las Vegas and it was not only a match-up that captured the ...
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The Top Twelve 8
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Featherweights
We’ve ranked the all-time greatest middleweights, bantamweights, light heavyweights and flyweights. Now we turn to the featherweights and offer our list of the all-time best to lace up ...
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Oct. 14, 1949: Gavilan vs Jack
It was the classic clash of the old king vs the future king when the once-great Beau Jack met Kid Gavilan in Chicago Stadium in a ten round, non-title ...
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Columns 7
Right Fight, Wrong Time: Hagler vs Leonard In 1983
Back in 1987, Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvelous Marvin Hagler threw down in a highly-anticipated middleweight title fight in Las Vegas, a glorious spectacle that captured the attention ...
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Oct. 12, 1978: Scott vs Gregory
It remains one of the more unlikely episodes in all of boxing history. A convicted criminal locked inside a maximum security penitentiary not only competed in sanctioned, professional ...
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Oct. 11, 1992: Lopez vs Lin
The nickname of all-time great Mexican pugilist Ricardo Lopez is “El Finito,” which translates to “The Fine One.” Sometimes a nickname does not aptly reflect the particular demeanor ...
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Oct. 10, 1962: Harada vs Kingpetch
Pone Kingpetch, Thailand’s first world champion, had won the flyweight crown from Pascual Pérez, an impressive achievement considering the Argentinian is without a doubt one of the finest ...
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Fight Report: Fury vs Wilder III
When a heavyweight fight delivers all it promises to be, the drama is unparalleled. Needless to say, there have been great heavyweight trilogies in the past: together, Muhammad ...
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I Fight For A Living
One of boxing’s most enduring tropes is that of the prizefighter who punches his way out of poverty and obscurity and into a life of riches and success. ...
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Fury vs Wilder: Repeat Or Revenge?
Believe it or not, it was almost six years ago that Tyson Fury journeyed to the Barclays Center in New York and then clambered into the ring after ...
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Fight Report: Fury vs Wilder III
When a heavyweight fight delivers all it promises to be, the drama is unparalleled. Needless to say, there have been great heavyweight trilogies in the past: together, Muhammad ...
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Fight Reports 0
The Weekend That Was (No. 19)
Nothing like a high profile heavyweight showdown, not to mention an upset that forces everyone to recalibrate the boxing landscape. Bottom line, that kind of event gets everyone’s ...
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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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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 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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Mercer vs Morrison
Most boxing fans are familiar with the ancient chestnut, “As the heavyweights go, so goes boxing,” and it would be difficult to argue that the old saw bears ...
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Oct. 16, 1987: Tyson vs Biggs
It is 1987 and nothing and no one can stop heavyweight wrecking machine Mike Tyson. The year before he had blown away Trevor Berbick in two rounds to become ...
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Boxiana 0
Oct. 16, 1970: Olivares vs Castillo
The rivalry between Ruben Olivares and Jesus Castillo—one of the most revered in Mexican boxing lore—took place in an era when the bantamweight division was dominated by Mexicans, with the great ...
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Boxiana 0
Oct. 14, 1949: Gavilan vs Jack
It was the classic clash of the old king vs the future king when the once-great Beau Jack met Kid Gavilan in Chicago Stadium in a ten round, non-title ...
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Boxiana 0
Oct. 12, 1978: Scott vs Gregory
It remains one of the more unlikely episodes in all of boxing history. A convicted criminal locked inside a maximum security penitentiary not only competed in sanctioned, professional ...
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Boxiana 2
Oct. 11, 1992: Lopez vs Lin
The nickname of all-time great Mexican pugilist Ricardo Lopez is “El Finito,” which translates to “The Fine One.” Sometimes a nickname does not aptly reflect the particular demeanor ...
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Boxiana 0
Oct. 10, 1962: Harada vs Kingpetch
Pone Kingpetch, Thailand’s first world champion, had won the flyweight crown from Pascual Pérez, an impressive achievement considering the Argentinian is without a doubt one of the finest ...
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Oct. 7, 1995: Lewis vs Morrison
On October 7, 1995, top heavyweights Lennox Lewis and Tommy Morrison clashed at the Atlantic City Convention Center for Morrison’s IBC belt, though the title was a minor ...
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Oct. 5, 1936: Canzoneri vs McLarnin II
Tony Canzoneri vs Jimmy McLarnin. Two of the very best from one of boxing’s greatest decades, the 1930’s, the Depression years, that glorious time of Kid Chocolate, Barney ...
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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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 ...
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Fury vs Wilder: Repeat Or Revenge?
Believe it or not, it was almost six years ago that Tyson Fury journeyed to the Barclays Center in New York and then clambered into the ring after ...
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Manny Pacquiao: You Had To Be There
You’ve seen it. The photo taken when he was sixteen, standing in a corner, staring at the camera, hard to tell whether in defiance or hope. He’s skinny, ...
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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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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 ...
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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I Fight For A Living
One of boxing’s most enduring tropes is that of the prizefighter who punches his way out of poverty and obscurity and into a life of riches and success. ...
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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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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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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 ...
Columns
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Happy Birthday To “The Real Deal”
“I shook up the world!” Famous words uttered by “The Greatest” that not only came to define Muhammad Ali, but also the victory of the underdog. Back in ...
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Right Fight, Wrong Time: Hagler vs Leonard In 1983
Back in 1987, Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvelous Marvin Hagler threw down in a highly-anticipated middleweight title fight in Las Vegas, a glorious spectacle that captured the attention ...
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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 Tao Of Roberto Duran
This past July marked two full decades since the final battle in the amazing career of the legendary warrior they call “Manos de Piedra,” but the standing of ...
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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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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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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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The Fight City Podcast No. 52
Last week the third chapter in the Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder tale went down in Las Vegas and it was not only a match-up that captured the ...
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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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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 ...
The Top Twelve
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Featherweights
We’ve ranked the all-time greatest middleweights, bantamweights, light heavyweights and flyweights. Now we turn to the featherweights and offer our list of the all-time best to lace up ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweight Slugfests
Yesterday we marked the anniversary of “The Thrilla In Manila,” and this week we’re slated to witness Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder III, so seems like a more than ...
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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 ...