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Five Myths About Judging
In the aftermath of the controversial draw verdict for Saturday’s huge heavyweight showdown, attention has once again turned to the ancient question of how boxing matches are scored ...
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Dec. 05, 1947: Louis vs Walcott I
Bad decisions. Robberies. Ridiculous scorecards. Maybe nothing sickens a fight fan more than the judges rendering a final verdict which makes a mockery of a hard-fought contest. Sadly, ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 8
Welcome back to The Fight City podcast. As usual, Alden Chodash is at the controls, with site founder and editor Michael Carbert in the co-pilot seat. This week ...
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Adonis Stevenson: How Did It Happen?
The long and controversial reign of WBC and lineal light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson ended in brutal fashion Saturday, after an onslaught of punches from decorated Ukrainian contender ...
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Dec. 3, 1982: Gomez vs Pintor
On this date back in 1982, Wilfredo Gomez and Lupe Pintor helped write another thrilling chapter in the long saga of glorious violence that is the boxing rivalry ...
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Fight Report: Wilder vs Fury
The Event: In the most hotly anticipated heavyweight affair since Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson squared off in Memphis 16 years ago, Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury meet in ...
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Fight Report: Stevenson vs Gvozdyk
The Event: The drama of the occasion was summed up in a single word, the title given to the match: “Obligatoire.” For non-Quebecois fight fans, that translates to ...
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Five Reasons Why “The Gypsy King” Will Win
Almost three years to the day since he defeated Wladimir Klitschko for the WBA, WBO, IBF and lineal heavyweight titles, Tyson Fury steps through the ropes tonight to ...
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Boxiana 1
Nov. 30, 1979: Benitez vs Leonard
Perhaps few people at the time realized it, but the title match between Wilfred “Radar” Benitez and Sugar Ray Leonard at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas constituted an extremely ...
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Boxiana 1
Nov. 30, 1956: Patterson vs Moore
In decades past, when undisputed heavyweight champions were the norm and not the exception, they inevitably created a great vacuum of power upon retiring. It was a mad scramble ...
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Fury vs Wilder: Bombs And Bravado
Simply put, these are not your grandfather’s heavyweights. These are not even your father’s heavyweights. Despite everything the two behemoths may lack in craft compared to previous generations, ...
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Stevenson vs Gvozdyk: Mandatory Mayhem
With WBC light heavyweight belt-holder Adonis “Superman” Stevenson set to face mandatory top contender Oleksander Gvozdyk this Saturday at the Vidéotron Centre in Quebec City, the champion is ...
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Wilder vs Fury: The Fight City Picks
When talk first surfaced several months ago of Tyson Fury abandoning his own comeback schedule to instead challenge WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, very few took the idea ...
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Double Standards
Adonis Stevenson has been a world boxing champion since June of 2013 but during that time, instead of establishing recognition as one of the best belt-holders of recent ...
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Fight City Reviews 2
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 60 years, other things ...
The Fight City
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Setback For Lafreniere; Big Win For Luis
On a boxing-rich day for Canadian fight fans — with Steven Butler headlining in Rimouski and Jean Pascal challenging for a world title in Atlantic City — Groupe ...
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KO’s For Francis And Shak
Another week, another boxing card at the Montreal Casino, this time from Groupe Yvon Michel. The week before saw Eye Of The Tiger put on a major show there ...
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The Future Is Bright
Undefeated super middleweight Erik Bazinyan was the headliner as he scored perhaps the most significant victory yet in his professional career, but his was not the only stand-out ...
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Ian MacKillop: 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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No Surprise: Pascal Batters Bossé
Ever since the McGregor versus Mayweather debacle there has been talk of boxers meeting mixed martial artists in rings or cages or wherever else. So when it was ...
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Crucial Statements
Eye of the Tiger Management’s card at the Montreal Casino on Saturday night came on the heels of their surreal offering in Shawinigan, which saw local heavyweight cash ...
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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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Five Myths About Judging
In the aftermath of the controversial draw verdict for Saturday’s huge heavyweight showdown, attention has once again turned to the ancient question of how boxing matches are scored ...
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Columns 0
Adonis Stevenson: How Did It Happen?
The long and controversial reign of WBC and lineal light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson ended in brutal fashion Saturday, after an onslaught of punches from decorated Ukrainian contender ...
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Columns 0
Five Reasons Why “The Gypsy King” Will Win
Almost three years to the day since he defeated Wladimir Klitschko for the WBA, WBO, IBF and lineal heavyweight titles, Tyson Fury steps through the ropes tonight to ...
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Columns 3
Double Standards
Adonis Stevenson has been a world boxing champion since June of 2013 but during that time, instead of establishing recognition as one of the best belt-holders of recent ...
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Bivol vs Pascal: Familiar Territory
If there were more fighters like Jean Pascal — ballsy to the point of irrationality, legitimately skilled, and with enough swagger to make you gush and cringe in ...
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What Now, Mr. Groves?
One of the more negative aspects of boxing in the modern age is the way in which defeated fighters are cast aside, while those who have assiduously protected ...
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Floyd vs Tenshin: Enough With The Novelty Fights
Here’s the thing: No one really knows why Floyd Mayweather abruptly made it clear that he would not be facing kickboxing and MMA phenom Tenshin Nasukawa in Japan ...
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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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When Trash Talk Backfires
Many times my dad repeated this old saw in my presence: “A wise man keeps his ears open and his mouth shut.” Not that I ever listened or ...
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The Fight City Podcast No. 8
Welcome back to The Fight City podcast. As usual, Alden Chodash is at the controls, with site founder and editor Michael Carbert in the co-pilot seat. This week ...
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Features 1
Fight Report: Wilder vs Fury
The Event: In the most hotly anticipated heavyweight affair since Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson squared off in Memphis 16 years ago, Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury meet in ...
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Fight Report: Stevenson vs Gvozdyk
The Event: The drama of the occasion was summed up in a single word, the title given to the match: “Obligatoire.” For non-Quebecois fight fans, that translates to ...
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Features 0
Fury vs Wilder: Bombs And Bravado
Simply put, these are not your grandfather’s heavyweights. These are not even your father’s heavyweights. Despite everything the two behemoths may lack in craft compared to previous generations, ...
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Features 0
Stevenson vs Gvozdyk: Mandatory Mayhem
With WBC light heavyweight belt-holder Adonis “Superman” Stevenson set to face mandatory top contender Oleksander Gvozdyk this Saturday at the Vidéotron Centre in Quebec City, the champion is ...
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Wilder vs Fury: The Fight City Picks
When talk first surfaced several months ago of Tyson Fury abandoning his own comeback schedule to instead challenge WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, very few took the idea ...
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Fight City Podcast No. 7
Time again for The Fight City podcast, steered by Alden Chodash, with site founder and editor Michael Carbert riding shotgun. Jam-packed episode this week as we’re talking Bivol ...
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Fight City Podcast No. 6
Time for the latest edition of The Fight City Podcast! As usual, Alden Chodash is at the helm, with site editor Michael Carbert joining him in some rousing discussion on various boxing ...
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Philadelphia Fight Night
Manny Rivera, co-owner of Hard Hitting Promotions, was walking the main room of the 2300 Arena in a checked suit that would have fit the scene back when ...
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Ali vs Foreman: Busting The Myth
Ever since Muhammad Ali’s stunning 1974 triumph in Zaire, a simplistic yet popular myth has persisted, that being the so-called “Rope-a-Dope” strategy. In the decades since that great ...
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Terence Crawford: The Complete Boxer
These days, when conversation among boxing fans turns to the question of who is currently the best practitioner of “The Sweet Science,” pound-for-pound, any number of names could ...
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Joe Louis: Mechanical Wonder
“I could have struggled up once more, but when I get executed, people are going to have to pay more than twenty-five dollars a seat to watch it.” ...
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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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Canelo vs Golovkin II: The Tactical Overview
It seemed to take forever for Gennady Golovkin and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to finally get in the ring and try to settle the question of who was the ...
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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 ...
Manny Montreal
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 208
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! This week: It’s the Final Episode! Manny not too excited by Usyk vs Joshua! Hoping Usyk ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 207
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! This week: Congratulations to Jonathan Di Bella! Canada’s best kick-boxer! Congrats to Jessica Camara! What’s going ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 206
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! This week: Congratulations to Heather Hardy! Manny hoping for a Hardy vs Jelena Mrdjenovich showdown! Marie-Eve Dicaire ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 205
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! This week: Congratulations to Tevin Farmer! Congrats to Groupe Yvon Michel for an excellent show at ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 204
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! This week: Congratulations are due! Congrats to “Bud” Crawford! Congrats to Eye Of The Tiger on ...
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Manny’s Thoughts! No. 203
Time again for Manny’s Thoughts! Your weekly briefing on combat sports from Manny Montreal! This week: Congratulations are due! Congrats to Artur Beterbiev! Tested but terrifying! Congrats also to Batyr ...
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The Georgia Deacon
He was only 32 when he died but if, as the old saw goes, only the good die young, then Tiger Flowers could not have escaped his fate. ...
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Boxiana 2
Mayweather vs Hatton
“My heart will explode before I leave him alone for one second,” Ricky Hatton had promised prior to his showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. As it turned out, ...
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Ali vs Bonavena
You can take issue with his politics, label him a braggart and a loudmouth, make an inventory of all the lucky breaks he got, and even insist that ...
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Boxiana 2
Dec. 05, 1947: Louis vs Walcott I
Bad decisions. Robberies. Ridiculous scorecards. Maybe nothing sickens a fight fan more than the judges rendering a final verdict which makes a mockery of a hard-fought contest. Sadly, ...
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Boxiana 0
Dec. 3, 1982: Gomez vs Pintor
On this date back in 1982, Wilfredo Gomez and Lupe Pintor helped write another thrilling chapter in the long saga of glorious violence that is the boxing rivalry ...
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Boxiana 1
Nov. 30, 1979: Benitez vs Leonard
Perhaps few people at the time realized it, but the title match between Wilfred “Radar” Benitez and Sugar Ray Leonard at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas constituted an extremely ...
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Boxiana 1
Nov. 30, 1956: Patterson vs Moore
In decades past, when undisputed heavyweight champions were the norm and not the exception, they inevitably created a great vacuum of power upon retiring. It was a mad scramble ...
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Boxiana 1
Nov. 24, 1990: Jackson vs Graham
All it takes is one punch. In baseball, you can overturn a three run deficit, win the game or even the World Series, with a single thunderous swing ...
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Nov. 21, 1987: Chavez vs Rosario
No one questions the fact that Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. is an all-time great and, for me at least, the best Mexican pugilist ever, though my editor, Mr. ...
Fight City Reviews
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Fight City Reviews 2
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 60 years, other things ...
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The Gods Of War
One of the best parts about being a boxing fan is the vitality of the sport’s history and the spirited debates and discussions that arise from it. The ...
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Fight City Reviews 1
When We Were Kings
More than two decades ago, one of the finest boxing documentaries ever made was finally released. The Academy Award-winning When We Were Kings details Muhammad Ali’s 1974 fight with ...
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Fight City Reviews 1
The Edge of Fat City
Like humanity, the world of boxing consists largely of losers. Perhaps the most self-defeating kind of loser is one who fails to take responsibility for his failures, instead ...
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Fight City Reviews 3
The Blood Feud
HBO’s 2008 film Thrilla In Manila is a sports documentary with an agenda; not necessarily a bad thing, but when a bias obscures and twists the truth, as happens here, ...
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The Long Count
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, and in ...
The Top Twelve
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Opening Rounds
In boxing, as in most things in life, it’s quality, not quantity. Excitement is the name of the game and the greatest fights are the ones that offer ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Masters Of The Jab
With few exceptions, the jab is a boxer’s most fundamental weapon, the key punch that sets up all the others. Without it, a boxer cannot effectively establish rhythm, ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Southpaws
According to the latest research, roughly ten percent of the human population is left-handed. This presents few problems for the other ninety percent, but in boxing, those problems ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Body Punchers
Body punchers don’t get enough love. Except for those dramatic instances where a paralyzing left hook to the liver produces a knockout, much of the time an effective ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Upsets
How does one measure an upset? Simple: by the number of chins on the floor at the end of the fight. And the power of the shockwaves felt ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Catchers
On this day back in 1950, the man they called “The Bronx Bull” scored a sensational, come-from-behind, final round knockout to retain the world’s middleweight title. France’s Laurent ...
