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Beyond The Sky
For Brin-Jonathan Butler I didn’t have ten dollars to spend on event parking, so I drove up and parked on the hill below Maine Medical Center. Then I ...
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Boxiana 8
Jan. 22, 1988: Tyson vs Holmes
Throughout his career, Larry Holmes had been underestimated. When he started fighting his way up the heavyweight ranks while working as a sparring partner for Joe Frazier and Muhammad ...
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Boxiana 4
Jan. 21, 1978: Duran vs De Jesus III
The rivalry came as a surprise to everyone when it began in November of 1972. A surprise because, at the time, no one expected the fistic dynamo that ...
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Boxiana 0
Jan. 21, 1927: LaBarba vs Clark
Flyweight wasn’t much of a division until Jimmy Wilde came along. While not the first of the little champions, “The Ghost With the Hammer in His Hand” showed ...
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Boxiana 1
Jan. 20, 1980: Arguello vs Castillo
It is 1980 and Alexis Arguello is a two-time world champion, already regarded as a future Hall of Famer, if not an all-time great. The Nicaraguan is the ...
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Lee Wylie 4
Muhammad Ali: The Fighter
A few days ago the boxing world marked the anniversary of Muhammad Ali’s birth and so we keep the festivities and remembrances going with an in-depth appreciation of ...
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Boxiana 0
Fight City Legends: The Little Hebrew
“We were Jews living in an Irish neighborhood. You can guess the rest. I used to fight four, five, ten times a day.” Abraham “Abe” Attell was born ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
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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The Top Twelve 30
Top 12 Reasons Why Muhammad Ali Is The Greatest
Today is the anniversary of the birth of the amazing athlete who changed boxing forever and, as we must each year, we take time to celebrate his life ...
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Lee Wylie 0
Didn’t Forget: Wylie On Superman
The one-and-only Roy Levesta Jones Jr., aka Superman, marks another journey around the sun today and no, we didn’t forget. Admirers of the uber-talented boxer who defeated such ...
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Boxiana 1
Jan. 16, 1982: Navarrete vs Choi
For fight fans the world over, mere mention of the city of Manila in the Philippines will always conjure up memories of the legendary third and final clash ...
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Boxiana 1
Jan. 15, 1990: Foreman vs Cooney
They billed Foreman vs Cooney as “The Preacher and The Puncher,” but it quickly became known as “The Geezers at Caesars,” this unique crossroads battle between two aging ...
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Boxiana 1
Jan. 14, 1984: Mancini vs Chacon
Boxing is not an old man’s sport and over the decades there have been plenty of what we might call “passing-the-torch” fights, when age gives way to younger ...
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Boxiana 0
January 14, 1921: Leonard vs Mitchell
It’s a cold night in New York City but Benny Leonard and Richie Mitchell provide more than a little heat with one of the greatest opening rounds in ...
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Boxiana 5
Jan. 13, 1976: Hagler vs Watts
No matter where you place Marvelous Marvin Hagler in a ranking of the best middleweights of all-time, no one can dispute the fact few boxers have dominated a division ...
The Fight City
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The Fight City 0
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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The Fight City 0
Otis Grant: Winning On The Road
On December 13, 1997, Otis Grant won a unanimous decision over Ryan Rhodes to earn the WBO middleweight title. We sat down with Otis to get his recollections ...
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The Fight City 0
The High Card: Yves Ulysse Dominates “G-Time”
Despite nurturing an impressive stable of both local and transplanted boxers in recent years, Eye of the Tiger Management and Camille Estephan have been firm in their stance ...
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The Fight City 0
Four Aces From Eye Of The Tiger
Recent years have demonstrated, with great success, the viability of the tournament format for professional boxing. The World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) has so far staged five elimination ...
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The Fight City 0
Wins For Lemieux, Lexson and “The Lion”
With COVID-19 ravaging the province of Quebec unlike anywhere else in Canada, the local boxing scene, which boasts a strong stable of world class talent, was one of ...
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The Fight City 0
Triple Threat
Quebec fight fans, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for, the return of real professional boxing. And while you will not see the punches fly in person, ...
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The Fight City 0
Quarantine Blues: Boxing Fights For Survival
Last week the government of Quebec announced it was considering prohibiting the resumption of boxing events until an effective vaccine for COVID-19 is found. The province’s two biggest promoters, ...
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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 ...
Fight Reports
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Fight Reports 0
The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 9)
We saw some very significant ring action the last several days, so we’ve got your recap podcast ready to go, thanks to Alden Chodash and Jeffrey Fuss, as they talk ...
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Fight Reports 3
Fight Report: Ioka vs Tanaka
For the mainstream US boxing networks who failed to showcase this matchup between two of the best little men in the game — one a four division world ...
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Fight Reports 0
The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 8)
Time for a new podcast to help you put the weekend’s fight action in proper perspective as Alden Chodash and Jeffrey Fuss recap last night’s major win from Saul “Canelo” ...
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Fight Reports 0
The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 7)
Time for another “weekend that was” podcast from Alden Chodash and Jeffrey Fuss as they recap a great night of action in Arlington, Texas and welterweight champ Errol Spence’s impressive ...
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Fight Reports 0
The Weekend That Was Podcast (No. 6)
Helping you put some of the weekend’s fight action into perspective is our man in the podcast cockpit, Alden Chodash, joined this week by site contributor Zachary Alapi ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Crawford vs Brook
Pound-for-pound lists are not to everybody’s taste, but regardless of how you choose to rank the best fighters in the world, there’s no denying that Terence Crawford is ...
The Fight City Podcast
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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 ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 45
Time for a new edition of our podcast, hosted as always by Alden Chodash as we reflect on Saturday’s big upset. Loma vs Lopez proved to be one ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 44
Brand new edition of our podcast is ready for your listening pleasure, hosted as always by Alden Chodash, as he and site contributor Jeffery Fuss discuss recent ring ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 43
Welcome to a new edition of our podcast, with Alden Chodash once again at the helm and offering you an exclusive interview with Joe Smith Jr. who is ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 42
Time for a new edition of our podcast, hosted, as always, by Alden Chodash. On this episode, the focus is on the recently announced Showtime boxing schedule, which ...
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Podcast 0
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, ...
Columns
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The Only Decision To Make
It remains unforgettable: Roberto Duran, arguably the greatest boxer, pound-for-pound, on the planet, stops fighting, turns his back on his opponent, and tells the referee: “No mas.” Sugar ...
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No More Bullshit
Back in 1969, Norman Mailer, writer, gadfly, fight fan, and best-selling author, put himself forward as a candidate for mayor of New York City. It was a mad, ...
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“My Brain Is Okay!”
A few weeks ago I saw Errol Spence in a video from his training camp for Saturday’s showdown with Danny Garcia, Spence’s first fight in over fourteen months. ...
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More Than Just One Punch
It was on this day in 1994 that the “impossible dream” was fulfilled. At age 45, former heavyweight champion George Foreman became the oldest man to win the ...
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Davis vs Santa Cruz: The Tall Order
I really like Leo Santa Cruz, not just as a boxer, a four-division champion at that, but as a man. Nicknamed “El Terremoto,” Santa Cruz is a very ...
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Columns 4
Right Fight, Wrong Time: 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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Ali vs Shavers: The Greatest’s Finest Hour
No matter how dismal the fight scene may be at a given time, fans can always cherish and take comfort from the sport’s glorious history. The past is ...
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Yes, Roy Really Was That Good
By the mid-90’s, the question was being asked by more than a few: was he the best ever? Certainly there had been no one quite like him in ...
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Happy Birthday To “The Rock”
Today is the birthday of legendary heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano and we’re always going to pay tribute to the one and only “Brockton Blockbuster,” regardless of the fact his famous ...
Features
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Features 1
Beyond The Sky
For Brin-Jonathan Butler I didn’t have ten dollars to spend on event parking, so I drove up and parked on the hill below Maine Medical Center. Then I ...
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Above All Mortals
With boxing still profoundly affected by the ongoing pandemic, we will continue to periodically revisit some of our past feature articles. Today, on the anniversary of the great ...
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2020 Fighter Of The Year
Fighter Of The Year Nominations: Tyson Fury Teofimo Lopez Joe Smith Jr. Katie Taylor Winner: Teofimo Lopez It’s been a difficult year, on this we can all agree. ...
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2020 Fight Of The Year
Fight Of The Year Nominations: Jose Zepeda KO5 Ivan Baranchyk Juan Francisco Estrada TKO11 Carlos Cuadras Roman Gonzalez TKO8 Kal Yafai Alex Povetkin TKO5 Dillian Whyte Masayoshi Nakatani ...
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2020 Performance Of The Year
Performance Of The Year Nominations: Roman Gonzalez TKO9 Kal Yafai Kazuto Ioka TKO 8 Kosei Tanaka Tyson Fury TKO 7 Deontay Wilder Teofimo Lopez W12 Vasiliy Lomachenko Gervonta ...
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2020 Round Of The Year
Round Of The Year Nominations: Jose Zepeda vs Ivan Baranchyk, Round Two Clay Collard vs Raymond Guajardo, Round One Gervonta Davis vs Leo Santa Cruz, Round Six Kazuto ...
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2020 Knockout Of The Year
Knockout Of The Year Nominations: Alex Povetkin TKO5 Dillian Whyte Gervonta Davis KO6 Leo Santa Cruz Eleider Alvarez KO7 Michael Seals Naoya Inoue KO7 Jason Moloney Joe Smith ...
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2020 Upset Of The Year
Upset Of The Year Nominations: Alex Povetkin TKO5 Dillian Whyte Jeison Rosario TKO5 Julian Williams Teofimo Lopez W12 Vasiliy Lomachenko Robert Helenius TKO4 Adam Kownacki Maxi Hughes W10 ...
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2020: The Nominations
To say 2020 was kinda crazy is to state the obvious to the point of trivializing what was an unprecedented year of chaos, upheaval, crisis and death on ...
Lee Wylie
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Lee Wylie 4
Muhammad Ali: The Fighter
A few days ago the boxing world marked the anniversary of Muhammad Ali’s birth and so we keep the festivities and remembrances going with an in-depth appreciation of ...
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Lee Wylie 0
Didn’t Forget: Wylie On Superman
The one-and-only Roy Levesta Jones Jr., aka Superman, marks another journey around the sun today and no, we didn’t forget. Admirers of the uber-talented boxer who defeated such ...
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Lee Wylie 2
Pernell Whitaker: The Sweet Scientist
You can call him, as we do, the best southpaw in boxing history. Or you can call him, as we do, the best boxer of the 1990’s. Or ...
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Lee Wylie 1
Terence Crawford: The Complete Boxer
In the not so distant past, when a gifted, young pugilist established himself as a top talent, he and boxing fans could look forward to a series of ...
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Lee Wylie 0
Canelo The Killer Redux
Anyone else get a sense of déjà vu in the aftermath of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s dominant win over Callum Smith? Feels like we were here before, with fight ...
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Lee Wylie 3
Henry Armstrong: Calculated Chaos
When Henry Armstrong invaded the featherweight division and assumed its pinnacle before going on to seize the crowns of the lightweight and welterweight divisions, professional boxing operated quite ...
boxiana
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Boxiana 0
Pedroza vs Laporte
Few champions have ever won as many world title matches as Panama’s Eusebio Pedroza and yet the prolific featherweight’s career is defined more by who he didn’t fight ...
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Boxiana 5
Foreman vs Lyle
Following his surprise defeat to Muhammad Ali in one of the most historic fights in boxing history, George Foreman returned from Africa not just a former champion, but ...
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Boxiana 8
Jan. 22, 1988: Tyson vs Holmes
Throughout his career, Larry Holmes had been underestimated. When he started fighting his way up the heavyweight ranks while working as a sparring partner for Joe Frazier and Muhammad ...
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Boxiana 4
Jan. 21, 1978: Duran vs De Jesus III
The rivalry came as a surprise to everyone when it began in November of 1972. A surprise because, at the time, no one expected the fistic dynamo that ...
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Boxiana 0
Jan. 21, 1927: LaBarba vs Clark
Flyweight wasn’t much of a division until Jimmy Wilde came along. While not the first of the little champions, “The Ghost With the Hammer in His Hand” showed ...
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Boxiana 1
Jan. 20, 1980: Arguello vs Castillo
It is 1980 and Alexis Arguello is a two-time world champion, already regarded as a future Hall of Famer, if not an all-time great. The Nicaraguan is the ...
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Boxiana 0
Fight City Legends: The Little Hebrew
“We were Jews living in an Irish neighborhood. You can guess the rest. I used to fight four, five, ten times a day.” Abraham “Abe” Attell was born ...
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Boxiana 1
Jan. 16, 1982: Navarrete vs Choi
For fight fans the world over, mere mention of the city of Manila in the Philippines will always conjure up memories of the legendary third and final clash ...
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Boxiana 1
Jan. 15, 1990: Foreman vs Cooney
They billed Foreman vs Cooney as “The Preacher and The Puncher,” but it quickly became known as “The Geezers at Caesars,” this unique crossroads battle between two aging ...
Fight City Reviews
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Fight City Reviews 0
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 1
The Story Of The Cincinnati Cobra
Like anyone who identifies as something of a boxing diehard, I’m familiar with the name Ezzard Charles. However, if pressed I could not tell you much more than ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
The Darker Road Of Raging Bull
“And then I was hitting Pete as hard as I could and Vickie was screaming, and I was beating Vickie and then raping Viola, and I found myself ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Dark Trade
My earliest memory of boxing is a poster for Mike Tyson vs Michael Spinks from back in 1988, the big heavyweight superfight that lasted exactly 91 seconds. The poster ...
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Fight City Reviews 1
Ray Mancini: The Good Son
The 1980s remain perhaps the most successful decade in boxing’s history, a rare time when the sport was highly popular and widely accepted as mainstream entertainment. Champions such ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Requiem For A Heavyweight
In its visual style and heady narrative, Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) resembles few other films of its genre and ranks among the greatest boxing movies of all ...
The Top Twelve
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Top 12 All-Time Best Scottish Boxers
Happy Robbie Burns Day, fight fans! Despite the ravages of Covid-19, it’s still a day to celebrate for all Scottish warriors. But instead of reciting “To A Haggis” ...
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The Top Twelve 30
Top 12 Reasons Why Muhammad Ali Is The Greatest
Today is the anniversary of the birth of the amazing athlete who changed boxing forever and, as we must each year, we take time to celebrate his life ...
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The Top Twelve 2
Pernell Whitaker: Best Of A Decade
Yesterday the late, great Pernell Whitaker would have turned 57, but he was taken from us in 2019, far too soon, but boxing will never forget his talent and ...
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The Top Twelve 2
Top 12 Greatest Muhammad Ali Performances
Do we need a special occasion to pay tribute to arguably the most popular and influential prizefighter of all-time? Is there ever a bad time to recall the ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Welterweight Fights
No matter how you break it down, Errol Spence vs Danny Garcia has one major thing going for it: it’s one of the best matches that can currently ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest One Punch KOs
Few things in all of sports are as electrifying as the one punch knockout and these are the most consequential and stunning of them all. To make the ...
