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Fight City Legends: The Ghetto Wizard
In the long history of boxing there have been many master trainers, gurus of the ring who made it their life’s work to mould young men into pugilists. ...
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Fight City Legends: The Barbados Demon
The issue of boxers failing to make weight is an ongoing concern, angering many fight fans and rightfully so. Whether it’s Floyd Mayweather intentionally coming in overweight against ...
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Fight City Legends: The Boston Bonecrusher
When we compare the great fighting champions of past and present, inevitably we draw a distinction between the true warrior and the mere athlete. At that point we ...
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Fight City Legends: The Mighty Atom
The writer of a profile of Jimmy Wilde, aka “The Mighty Atom,” is tempted to put down the particulars of Wilde’s incredible record – 152 bouts, 146 victories, ...
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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 Legends: The Michigan Assassin
For middleweight legend Stanley Ketchel, the boxing ring was the only theater in which his mania could legally project its voice. Born in 1886 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, ...
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Fight City Legends: The Belfast Spider
As anyone who has contemplated the history of pugilism already knows, no sport offers more when it comes to heartbreak and tragedy. From the trusting, dedicated fighter who ...
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Fight City Legends: The Boston Gob
In boxing history, there are the champions and there are those who fight among them. For every Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey, there were hundreds of ...
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Fight City Legends: Chrysanthemum Joe
“Jeffries number one? No, sir. Give me Joe Choynski anytime. I faced both and should know. Jeffries had a powerful wallop, but Choynski had a paralyzing punch. His ...
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Fight City Legends: The Fighting Marine
Gene Tunney will forever be a truly great boxer, one of the best to ever step into the ring. A clever strategist with excellent footwork, superb defense, and ...
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Fight City Legends: The Georgia Deacon
He was only thirty-two when he left this world but if, as the old saw goes, only the good die young, then Tiger Flowers could never have escaped ...
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Fight City Legends: Pancho Villa
The real Pancho Villa was a prominent Mexican revolutionary who won fame for his military victories during the early part of the 20th century. Exactly why Francisco Guilledo ...
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Fight City Legends: Little Chocolate
The question is posed: who was the first black man to win a world boxing championship? And here are the likely replies: Jack Johnson? Joe Gans? While incorrect, these ...
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Fight City Legends: The Manassa Mauler
If boxing’s greatest era is that in which it was most popular, then Jack Dempsey is the fighter most identified with the sport’s zenith. The ‘Manassa Mauler,’ whose ...
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Fight City Legends: The Smoke City Wildcat
They called them the Roaring Twenties, that crazy decade following World War I when the economy boomed, “speakeasies” opened on every other corner, the “flappers” started showing a ...
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Fight City Legends: Speckled Bob
We live in the age of the camera and mass produced, edited, precisely manicured images, when glamour, style and looks have never been more important. On this score, ...
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Fight City Legends: Gentleman Jim
“From my first fight I started to run away.” James John Corbett, often referred to as “Gentleman Jim,” never cared much for the brutish nature of the sport ...
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Fight City Legends: The Galveston Giant
Jack Johnson looms over boxing as the sort of mythical figure one connects with a more legendary age. Born in 1878 to former slaves, the native of Galveston, ...
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Fight City Legends: The Toy Bulldog
There’s a character archetype that’s been floating around for decades, if not centuries: the scrappy Irishman who makes up with strength and guts what he lacks in stature, ...
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Fight City Legends: The Old Master
Born in Baltimore in 1874, the great Joe Gans got his start in boxing the way many black fighters of his time did, in absurd, exploitative spectacles called ...
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Fight City Legends: The Aldgate Sphinx
Historically speaking, boxing is a sport of great rivalries, though now we can only pine for the days when pugilists thought nothing of facing an adversary more than ...
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Fight City Legends: King of the Canebrakes
It’s October 3, 1933 and a young man, a fighter, lies close to death in a hospital bed in Macon, Georgia. The room is quiet, morose even, such ...
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Fight City Legends: Homicide Hank
It requires a leap of the imagination to understand how different from today the sport of boxing was in the 1930s. Or how different the society that allowed ...
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Fight City Legends: The Prince of Harlem
In boxing circles, it’s repeated so often it’s almost become a cliché: the greatest boxer of all-time, regardless of weight, is Sugar Ray Robinson. It can be puzzling ...
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Happy Birthday To The Old Master
Joe Gans was a pugilistic pioneer. He innovated many now common boxing techniques and his crafty ways and unmatched ring intelligence earned him the nickname “The Old Master.” ...
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Benny Leonard: Ring General
Some while back, Lee Wylie offered another of his excellent analysis videos, this one a tribute to the one-and-only Benny Leonard. But like the artist he is, Wylie ...
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Floyd vs Cotto II For May 2? For Real?
Here we are in the dying moments of 2014 and the battle for next year’s coveted May 2 date keeps getting weirder by the day. Rumors swirl that ...
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