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Fight City Legends: Little Chocolate

October 23, 2021October 23, 2021 Robert Portis 0 Comments Abe Attell, George Dixon, Jack Johnson, Joe Gans, Joe Louis

The question is posed: who was the first black man to win a world boxing championship? And here are the

Fight City Legends: King of the Canebrakes

October 3, 2021October 6, 2021 Daniel Attias 0 Comments Archie Moore, Gene Tunney, Harry Greb, Jack Dempsey, Max Schmeling, Mike McTigue, Tex Rickard, Tommy Loughran, Young Stribling

On this day way back in 1933, a young man, a fighter, lies close to death in a hospital bed

Fight City Legends: The Georgia Deacon

August 5, 2021August 8, 2021 Robert Portis 0 Comments Harry Greb, Jack Delaney, Jack Dempsey, Madison Square Garden, Mickey Walker, Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, The Georgia Deacon, Tiger Flowers

He was only thirty-two when he left this world but if, as the old saw goes, only the good die

Fight City Legends: Pancho Villa

August 1, 2021October 16, 2021 Michael Carbert 0 Comments Jack Dempsey, Jimmy Wilde, Mickey Walker, Pancho Villa

The real Pancho Villa was a prominent Mexican revolutionary who won fame for his military victories during the early part

Fight City Legends: The Galveston Giant

July 20, 2021July 23, 2021 Eliott McCormick 0 Comments Jack Johnson, James J. Jeffries, Stanley Ketchel, Tommy Burns

Jack Johnson looms over boxing as the sort of mythical figure one connects with a more legendary age. Born in

Fight City Legends: Gentleman Jim

July 8, 2021July 12, 2021 Alden Chodash 0 Comments Benny Leonard, Bob Fitzsimmons, Gene Tunney, Gentleman Jim, George Dixon, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Jake Kilrain, James J. Corbett, Joe Choynski, Joe Gans, John L. Sullivan, Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston, Sugar Ray Robinson

“From my first fight I started to run away.” James John Corbett, often referred to as “Gentleman Jim,” never cared

Fight City Legends: The Manassa Mauler

June 24, 2021June 29, 2021 Eliott McCormick 2 Comments Dempsey vs Carpentier, Dempsey vs Firpo, Dempsey vs Tunney, Gene Tunney, Georges Carpentier, Jack Dempsey, Jack Kearns, Jess Willard, Luis Firpo, Tex Rickard

If boxing’s greatest era is that in which it was most popular, then Jack Dempsey is the fighter most identified

Fight City Legends: The Fighting Blacksmith

May 26, 2021May 29, 2021 Michael Carbert 2 Comments Bob Fitzsimmons, James J. Corbett, James J. Jeffries

We live in the age of the camera and mass produced, edited, precisely manicured images, when glamour, style and looks

Fight City Legends: The Old Master

May 10, 2021July 25, 2021 Michael Carbert 2 Comments Battling Nelson, George Dixon, Henry Armstrong, Joe Gans, Nat Fleischer, Roberto Duran, Sam Langford, Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Ritchie

Born in Baltimore in 1874, the great Joe Gans got his start in boxing the way many black fighters of

Fight City Legends: The Ghetto Wizard

April 7, 2021April 9, 2021 Michael Carbert 0 Comments Barney Ross, Benny Leonard, Jimmy McLarnin, Joe Gans, Ray Arcel, Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Robinson

In the long history of boxing there have been many master trainers, gurus of the ring who made it their

Fight City Legends: The Napoleon Of The Prize Ring

March 25, 2021September 5, 2021 Alden Chodash 0 Comments Boxing, Boxing history, Harry Gilmore, Jack McAuliffe, James J. Corbett, Jem Carney, John L. Sullivan, Nat Loubet, Nonpareil Jack Dempsey, Young Griffo

Napoleon, war-master, was a terror to his foes, A general of generals, as everybody knows; And Jack McAuliffe, lightweight king,

Fight City Legends: The Barbados Demon

March 13, 2021September 2, 2021 Neil Crane 3 Comments Bob Fitzsimmons, Errol Spence Jr, Floyd Mayweather, Garcia vs Spence, Jack Johnson, Jersey Joe Walcott, joe walcott, Juan Manuel Marquez, Mikey Garcia, Shawn Porter, the barbados demon

Boxers failing to make weight before a fight is an ever-present concern, one that angers many fans and rightfully so.

Langford vs Wills

Fight City Legends: The Boston Bonecrusher

March 3, 2021March 6, 2021 Michael Carbert 9 Comments Al Haney, Charley Rose, Dan Morgan, Gunboat Smith, Harry Wills, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Jimmy Cannon, Joe Gans, Joe Jeannette, Joe Louis, joe walcott, Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, Sam Langford, Sam McVey, Stanley Ketchel, Tiger Flowers

When we compare the great fighting champions of past and present, inevitably we draw a distinction between the true warrior

Fight City Legends: The Mighty Atom

February 6, 2021February 9, 2021 Robert Portis 0 Comments Gene Tunney, Jim Driscoll, Jimmy Wilde, Pancho Villa, The Mighty Atom

The writer of a profile of Jimmy Wilde, aka “The Mighty Atom,” is tempted to put down the particulars of

Abe Attell

Fight City Legends: The Little Hebrew

January 19, 2021January 21, 2021 Jamie Rebner 2 Comments Abe Attell, Aurelio Herrera, Battling Nelson, Boxing, George Dixon, James J. Corbett, Johnny Kilbane, Owen Moran, The Little Hebrew

“We were Jews living in an Irish neighborhood. You can guess the rest. I used to fight four, five, ten

Fight City Legends: The Michigan Assassin

December 29, 2020December 31, 2020 Eliott McCormick 5 Comments Billy Papke, Boxing, Dumb Dan Morgan, Jack Johnson, Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, Stanley Ketchel, The Michigan Assassin

For middleweight legend Stanley Ketchel, the boxing ring was the only theater in which his mania could legally project its

Fight City Legends: The Belfast Spider

December 18, 2020December 20, 2020 Michael Carbert 4 Comments Barney Ross, Benny Leonard, Billy Petrolle, Jimmy McLarnin, Tony Canzoneri

As anyone who has contemplated the history of pugilism already knows, no sport offers more when it comes to heartbreak

Fight City Legends: The Boston Gob

October 26, 2020May 19, 2021 Patrick Connor 0 Comments Jack Dempsey, Jack Sharkey, Jess Willard, Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, Primo Carnera

In boxing history, there are the champions and there are those who fight among them. For every Muhammad Ali, Joe

Fight City Legends: Chrysanthemum Joe

October 23, 2020January 28, 2021 Jamie Rebner 5 Comments Bob Fitzsimmons, Christopher LaForce, Chrysanthemum Joe, Jack Johnson, James J. Corbett, James J. Jeffries, Joe Choynski, joe walcott, John L. Sullivan, Mike Casey, Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, Tom Sharkey

“Jeffries number one? No, sir. Give me Joe Choynski anytime. I faced both and should know. Jeffries had a powerful

Fight City Legends: The Fighting Marine

October 6, 2020October 9, 2020 Michael Carbert 9 Comments Gene Tunney, Harry Greb, Jack Dempsey, King Levinsky, Tex Rickard, Tommy Gibbons

Gene Tunney will forever be a truly great boxer, one of the best to ever step into the ring. A

Fight City Legends: The Toy Bulldog

February 4, 2020February 7, 2020 Mathieu Brousseau 3 Comments Harry Greb, Jack Kearns, Jack Sharkey, King Levinsky, Lou Brouillard, Max Schmeling, Maxie Rosenbloom, Mickey Walker, Young Corbett III

There’s a character archetype that’s been floating around for decades, if not centuries: the scrappy Irishman who makes up with

Fight City Legends: The Aldgate Sphinx

November 15, 2019November 18, 2019 Mathieu Brousseau 3 Comments Georges Carpentier, Jack Britton, Jack Dempsey, Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali, Robert Fitzsimmons, Ted "Kid" Lewis

Historically speaking, boxing is a sport of great rivalries, though now we can only pine for the days when pugilists

Fight City Legends: Homicide Hank

June 25, 2014December 6, 2018 Michael Carbert 1 Comment Al Jolson, Fritzie Zivic, Henry Armstrong, Joe Louis, Lou Ambers, Manny Pacquiao, Sugar Ray Robinson

It requires a leap of the imagination to understand how different from today the sport of boxing was in the

Fight City Legends: The Prince of Harlem

June 9, 2014February 5, 2019 Michael Carbert 0 Comments Sugar Ray Robinson

In boxing circles, it’s repeated so often it’s almost become a cliché: the greatest boxer of all-time, regardless of weight,

Happy Birthday To The Old Master

November 25, 2020December 3, 2020 Lee Wylie 1 Comment Battling Nelson, Benny Leonard, Joe Gans, Lee Wylie, Legend, Monte Cox, Nat Fleischer, Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard, The Old Master

Joe Gans was a pugilistic pioneer. He innovated many now common boxing techniques and his crafty ways and unmatched ring

Benny Leonard: Ring General

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 Lee Wylie 0 Comments Benny Leonard, Boxing, History, Lee Wylie, New York City, Sports, The Ghetto Wizard

Some while back, Lee Wylie offered another of his excellent analysis videos, this one a tribute to the one-and-only Benny

Floyd vs Cotto II For May 2? For Real?

December 30, 2014September 12, 2016 Rafael García 0 Comments Amir Khan, Canelo Alvarez, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Gennady Golovkin, Las Vegas, Manny Pacquiao, middleweight, Miguel Cotto

Here we are in the dying moments of 2014 and the battle for next year’s coveted May 2 date keeps

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Montreal is The Fight City. Known in decades past as “Sin City” and “Babylon on the St. Lawrence,” it saw

Aug. 9, 2003: Freitas vs Barrios

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For Elio Ortiz the end came in round four after he visited the canvas a fifth time at the hands

June 27, 1987: Hilton vs Drayton

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Fighting families are not exactly unique in boxing. Indeed, the history of prizefighting is filled with siblings who shared the

Aug. 23, 1986: McCallum vs Jackson

August 23, 2021August 26, 2021 Jamie Rebner 2

When Julian “The Hawk” Jackson challenged Mike “The Body Snatcher” McCallum on this day in 1986 for the latter’s WBA

Sept. 23, 1957: Robinson vs Basilio

September 24, 2021September 26, 2021 David Como 4

The great Sugar Ray Robinson had retired from boxing, had been singing and tap-dancing for three years. He didn’t have