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June 18, 1941: Louis vs Conn I
It is 1941 and while some say death and taxes are the only sure things in life, American sports fans know different. There exists a third certainty: Joe Louis ...
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June 16, 1983: Duran vs Moore
In 1980, Roberto Duran‘s already legendary career reached both its zenith and its nadir. Having abandoned the lightweight division he had dominated for more than seven years, and ...
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June 15, 1984: Hearns vs Duran
At the time, the story lines had not yet become vivid, the true significance of what was unfolding not yet clear. The term “The Four Kings” had yet ...
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Spence vs Ocampo
While pound-for-pound lists are, essentially, about as accurate and meaningful as an imaginary ranking of the greatest comic book superheroes or mythological warriors, right now no serious discussion ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 186
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! Congratulations to Groupe Yvon Michel on another successful fight card at the Montreal Casino! Great ...
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The Fight City 0
Fight Night In Shawinigan: Will Yves Ulysse Steal The Show?
This Saturday night in the rather unlikely location of the city of Shawinigan, Quebec, one of the most anticipated fights in Canadian boxing will take place, a battle ...
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June 12, ’89: Hearns vs Leonard II
Their first meeting in 1981, one of the biggest fights in boxing history, was called “The Showdown,” an appellation which made sense given that each held one of ...
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June 11, 1982: Holmes vs Cooney
It was boxing’s biggest night, but for all the wrong reasons. In terms of sheer popularity, exposure, and the money that goes with it, the 1980s has to ...
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The Weekend That Was
Terence Crawford demonstrated again what a superb talent he is as, with power, strength and skill, he methodically broke down and dispatched Jeff Horn in the ninth round ...
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June 9, 1978: Holmes vs Norton
While it might be going a bit far to classify Ken Norton as a “hard-luck fighter,” it’s difficult not to see him as such when one considers all ...
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Ralph’s Take
Leo Santa Cruz (34-1-1), Jermell Charlo (30-0) and Terence Crawford (32-0), are all favored to win their fights this Saturday night, but this is boxing, so, as fight ...
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June 8, 2002: Lewis vs Tyson
Legitimate superfights in boxing tend not to just happen spontaneously, but instead are built up over time. The first bout between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali was years ...
The Fight City
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A Shawinigan Handshake For “The Boogeyman”
Camille Estephan and Eye of the Tiger Management pulled out all the stops in promoting Simon “The Grizzly” Kean vs Adam “The Boogeyman” Braidwood, a rare all-Canadian heavyweight showdown of genuine ...
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Fight Night In Shawinigan: Will Yves Ulysse Steal The Show?
This Saturday night in the rather unlikely location of the city of Shawinigan, Quebec, one of the most anticipated fights in Canadian boxing will take place, a battle ...
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Ford Grinds At Grant Brothers
The journey of Ryan “The Real Deal” Ford continues and, as anyone who follows Ford on social media knows, it’s a hard road with non-stop training and sacrifice ...
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The Rise of Camille Estephan
Camille Estephan always makes eye contact. Standing on the press conference podium, his bulky musculature sheathed in a fitted suit jacket, the Eye of the Tiger promoter will ...
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À La Prochaine, Montreal
Montreal is “The Fight City,” not Toronto. Or so we thought. And still think, as any objective evaluation of Canada’s two largest urban centres reveals a mismatch in ...
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World Combat Arena On The Rise
Last night the Montreal Casino played host to its second consecutive night of combat sports action. After a solid boxing card on Thursday, the combat sports action continued ...
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Flawless Fight Night
Groupe Yvon Michel hosted another boxing gala on Thursday at the Montreal Casino, which turned out to be unlike any pugilistic event I might have imagined. The venue ...
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Butler Shines On Night Of Knockouts
Eye of the Tiger Management’s first foray into staging fight cards at the Montreal Casino produced a slew of explosive first round knockouts, not to mention a pair ...
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Tohu Turf Wars: Report And Photo Gallery
Upon approaching the Tohu Theatre last night, and despite having been informed of brisk ticket sales, one couldn’t help being surprised to learn there was not a single ...
Columns
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Ralph’s Take
Leo Santa Cruz (34-1-1), Jermell Charlo (30-0) and Terence Crawford (32-0), are all favored to win their fights this Saturday night, but this is boxing, so, as fight ...
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Explosive Potential: 147 Should Be Boxing’s Hottest Division
It was, until recently, the premier division in boxing, the weight class with the most elite-level talents and the most tantalizing match-ups to be made. Over the decades, ...
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Confidence Game: Can Linares Shock “Hi-Tech”?
And so Vasyl Lomachenko will once again fight a top-tier opponent when he faces Jorge Linares on Saturday for lightweight supremacy. Linares undoubtedly deserves that status, having scraped ...
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The Fight Game Has Changed
Since inception, the relationship between television and boxing has been bittersweet. Back in the 1950s A. J. Liebling, journalistic star for The New Yorker and boxing writer extraordinaire, ...
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Cancelled Fights Are Not Tragic
Late in March, as it became clear that Canelo Alvarez’s positive test for clenbuterol was going to derail his highly anticipated rematch with Gennady Golovkin, boxing fans on ...
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Truly Notorious: Conor Out Of Control
The ridiculous antics that were once so amusing have finally spiraled completely out of control. Conor McGregor has been busy keeping his name in people’s minds and on ...
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Hagler: On His Own Terms
It remains to this day one of the more controversial fights in boxing history. No, there was no long count. Nor was there the sudden appearance of a ...
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Cinco De Mamadas
“I have not let you down. I respect the sport and I will always be a clean fighter.” By uttering these words—with a straight, if contrite, face—Saul ...
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Canelo vs Golovkin II: Stuck In Limbo
No one saw this coming. Seriously, who really expected to the Nevada State Athletic Commission to temporarily suspend Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, a man widely regarded as the favored ...
Features
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Spence vs Ocampo
While pound-for-pound lists are, essentially, about as accurate and meaningful as an imaginary ranking of the greatest comic book superheroes or mythological warriors, right now no serious discussion ...
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The Weekend That Was
Terence Crawford demonstrated again what a superb talent he is as, with power, strength and skill, he methodically broke down and dispatched Jeff Horn in the ninth round ...
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Four To Watch
While last weekend offered slim pickings in terms of ring action, this weekend is something else. On tap, a number of relevant matches involving some of the sport’s biggest ...
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Fight Report: Inoue vs McDonnell
The Event It was always going to be a tall order for Britain’s Jamie McDonnell. Defending away from home and competing against one of the world’s best boxers, ...
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Shiro vs Lopez: Rematch In Tokyo
Inside the gym his father owns in Kyoto, Japan, Ken Shiro prepares for his upcoming defense of his WBC light flyweight championship, a rematch against Ganigan Lopez. It ...
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Fight Report: Stevenson vs Jack
The Event Stevenson vs Jack represented one of the best and most interesting match-ups to be made in the light heavyweight division for some time, not to mention ...
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Stevenson vs Jack: The Fight City Picks
It’s an intriguing match-up featuring two of the very best in a stacked light heavyweight division. Adonis Stevenson and Badou Jack are, without question, elite-level pugilists and this ...
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The Weekend That Was
This edition of my semi-regular weekend recaps is late and is going to be a bit on the random side because your friendly scribe here tripped over a ...
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McCluskey’s Dozen: 30 Years Of Talent
Talent is an almost indefinable quality. You can spot it in a prodigious young athlete but it’s difficult to define precisely what it is. It can manifest itself ...
Lee Wylie
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Linares vs Lomachenko: The Tactical Overview
On May 12, WBA lightweight champion Jorge Linares defends his championship against boxing phenom Vasyl Lomachenko and while one can argue there are even better, even more tantalizing ...
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The Genius Of Sugar Ray Robinson
It is almost a cliché of sports: Sugar Ray Robinson is, pound-for-pound, the greatest boxer of all-time. While in fact some boxing historians point to Harry Greb and Sam Langford ...
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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 ...
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The Tao Of Roberto Duran
Lee Wylie is one of the most insightful analysts in boxing but he’s also a fan and makes no secret of the fact that Roberto Duran is his ...
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Ali: The Fighter
1. What tactics or skills were most crucial to Muhammad Ali’s boxing success? Distance and Timing: By leaning forward at the waist, Ali could, almost at will, cause ...
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Diego Corrales: The Boxer
“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 ...
Manny Montreal
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 186
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! Congratulations to Groupe Yvon Michel on another successful fight card at the Montreal Casino! Great ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 185
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! Congratulations to Lee Baxter Promotions! Hoping for a rematch for Jessica Camara! Bivol vs Barrera ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 184
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! Congratulations to Eye Of The Tiger Management for the big Quebec City fight card! Arslan ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 183
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! This week, special two-part video! Because Manny has stuff to say about Stevenson vs Jack! ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 182
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! This week: Congratulations to Vasyl Lomachenko! And Jorge Linares! Beautiful fight! “Hi-Tech” is human after ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 181
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! Take a look at Manny’s Patreon page! This week: Congratulations to Donnybrook Boxing Promotions! Sell-out crowd in ...
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June 20, 1980: Duran vs Leonard I
Time waits for no one, as the old cliché goes, a statement whose meaning the young can barely grasp and alas, I am young no longer. But 38 years ...
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Louis vs Schmeling
Think back, if you will boxing fans, and recollect those breathless days of yesteryear, when the young, can’t-miss prospect, the next great star of the ring, thrilled you ...
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June 18, 1941: Louis vs Conn I
It is 1941 and while some say death and taxes are the only sure things in life, American sports fans know different. There exists a third certainty: Joe Louis ...
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June 16, 1983: Duran vs Moore
In 1980, Roberto Duran‘s already legendary career reached both its zenith and its nadir. Having abandoned the lightweight division he had dominated for more than seven years, and ...
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Boxiana 0
June 15, 1984: Hearns vs Duran
At the time, the story lines had not yet become vivid, the true significance of what was unfolding not yet clear. The term “The Four Kings” had yet ...
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June 12, ’89: Hearns vs Leonard II
Their first meeting in 1981, one of the biggest fights in boxing history, was called “The Showdown,” an appellation which made sense given that each held one of ...
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June 11, 1982: Holmes vs Cooney
It was boxing’s biggest night, but for all the wrong reasons. In terms of sheer popularity, exposure, and the money that goes with it, the 1980s has to ...
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June 9, 1978: Holmes vs Norton
While it might be going a bit far to classify Ken Norton as a “hard-luck fighter,” it’s difficult not to see him as such when one considers all ...
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June 8, 2002: Lewis vs Tyson
Legitimate superfights in boxing tend not to just happen spontaneously, but instead are built up over time. The first bout between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali was years ...
Fight City Reviews
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A Requiem for Iron Mike
“The only thing we knew was violence in Brownsville, even with people we love.” — Mike Tyson We cannot escape Mike Tyson. Never boxing’s patron saint but no ...
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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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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 ...
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Golden Gloves
In grainy black and white, half-naked boys and young men form a line in a Montreal gymnasium. They’re lean and fit, registration cards tucked into snug white briefs ...
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12 Rounds In Lo’s Gym
An amateur boxer prowling the stands in desperation, looking for a last-second opponent. Silver Gloves competitions filled with anxious fighting novices. “Tough Man” contests brimming with fighters long ...
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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 ...
The Top Twelve
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweights
At a very leisurely pace over the last couple of years, The Fight City has offered its own idiosyncratic rankings of the all-time greatest boxers in each of ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Chins
The last line of defense for a boxer is the durability of his mandible. Here are the 12 best chins in boxing history, the men who faced the ...
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The Top 12 Greatest Mexican Boxers
A while back your preferred kick-ass boxing website had a special week on Mexican pugilists called “Mexican Style” and a spirited debate regarding who are the best Mexican ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweight Slugfests
There is a human fascination for seeing large things torn asunder, be it a huge office tower, a bridge, an ego or even a man. Or perhaps two ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweight Punchers
When it comes to popular water-cooler topics in boxing, few, if any, top this one: who is the most powerful puncher to ever step through the ropes? Now ...
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Top 12 Most Intimidating Boxers
Intimidation can come in many different forms: aggressive body language, rippling muscles, obnoxious trash talk, or the cold stare that sends chills down another’s backbone. Whatever way it’s ...
