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Pernell Whitaker: Best Of The Decade

Today is Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker’s birthday, the bonafide all-time great turning 55 and what better way to pay tribute to him and say “Happy Birthday” than to ...
On January 1, 2019 / By Neil Crane
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Dec. 29, 2007: Cunningham vs Huck

Surely one of the most agonizing decisions a boxing trainer ever has to make is to signal surrender on behalf of a brave but depleted warrior. After weeks ...
On December 29, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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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 ...
On December 5, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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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 ...
On November 28, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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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 ...
On November 23, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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The Fight City Podcast No. 5

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 matters pugilistic. ...
On November 14, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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The Fight City Podcast No. 4

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 ...
On November 6, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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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, ...
On November 2, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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The Fight City Podcast No. 2

Alden Chodash hosts The Fight City Podcast as he and editor Michael Carbert discuss some of the recent happenings in the fight game. On their minds this week ...
On October 22, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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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 ...
On October 16, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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The Fight City Podcast No. 1

Over the last few months, Alden Chodash has proven himself a most industrious contributor to your favourite independent boxing website and he also happens to be the proprietor ...
On October 15, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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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 ...
On October 10, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Golovkin vs Canelo II: The Fight City Picks

We’ve said it before, but 2018 is the year that just keeps on giving for boxing fans. We’re getting spoiled rotten with a lengthy list of great match-ups ...
On September 12, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Garcia vs Porter: The Fight City Picks

As one of our contributors discussed not that long ago, the current version of the welterweight division has all the necessary ingredients to give boxing fans plenty of ...
On September 5, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Kovalev vs Alvarez: The Fight City Picks

It’s been noted more than a few times on this site in the last couple years, but it’s a fact that bears repeating: you have to go a ...
On August 1, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Big Boy Battles

While no serious boxing fan is ready just yet to argue that we’re in a Golden Age for the heavyweight division, one thing is certain: of late, the ...
On July 29, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Top 12 All-Time Cockiest Boxers

There’s confident, and then there’s cocky, the former being expected of any prizefighter with the guts to step into the ring, but the latter taking confidence and turning ...
On July 24, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Usyk vs Gassiev: The Fight City Picks

It’s getting repetitive, but at the same time it bears repeating: 2018 is proving to be an excellent year for professional boxing. The number of high-calibre, high-stakes matches ...
On July 19, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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The PacMan’s Last Hurrah?

Yes, it’s hard to believe, but it’s July of 2018 and, for better or for worse, it’s another Manny Pacquiao “Fight Week.” Pacquiao vs Matthysse. It’s going down, ...
On July 10, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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The Future Is Now: Charlo Brothers Ready To Take Over Boxing

And then all of a sudden, it was here. The future. Jermell and Jermall. The Charlo brothers. Clearly poised to be the next big thing in boxing. Brothers, ...
On May 2, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Special K Ready To Rebound

A major theme of recent years in boxing is fan frustration with too many elite fighters taking too few risks. Whether it’s Floyd Mayweather side-stepping a match with ...
On March 9, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Kovalev Comeback, Part II

Not that there’s any lack of evidence to help people understand why boxing will most likely never regain the kind of mainstream acceptance that it enjoyed in decades ...
On March 3, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Lightweights

We continue our periodic series ranking the all-time best boxers in the original eight weight classes by today casting our discerning eye on the lightweights. For simplicity’s sake, ...
On February 21, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Dreaming Of A Welterweight Super Series

On Saturday the World Boxing Super Series gives fight fans another exceptional match-up in George Groves vs Chris Eubank Jr. as both of their ongoing divisional tournaments move ...
On February 12, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Fight Report: Gassiev vs Dorticos

The Event The World Boxing Super Series has been, by almost any measure, a resounding success thus far. This fact was confirmed in most dramatic fashion a week ...
On February 4, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Fight Report: Usyk vs Briedis

The Event Nothing but good can come from any tournament which seeks to crown a single fighter as the king of their respective weight class and the World ...
On January 27, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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Hyped Yet For 2018?

Time to look forward, fight fans, as we turn the corner with great expectations for a new year of boxing action that will, we hope, at least come ...
On January 11, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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King Of The North: Big Country vs Monster Mel

The absurdly one-sided demolition inflicted by Deontay Wilder on Bermane Stiverne in their rematch a month ago was painful to watch in any case, but it was especially ...
On November 30, 2017 / By Neil Crane
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The End Of Middleweight Madness?

The 160 pound class has long been considered one of boxing’s so-called “glamour divisions,” the locale of numerous great champions and great fights, but in recent years it’s ...
On October 19, 2017 / By Neil Crane

The Fight City

Montreal is The Fight City. Known in years past as "Sin City" and "Babylon on the St. Lawrence", it saw more than its share of ring legends over the decades. A metropolis where hundreds of young warriors train and battle each day in its many gyms, it is where Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Bernard Hopkins all found greatness. It is a city of fights and fighters, of hockey and heroes, of broken dreams and immortal glory, a city unlike any other. Montreal is The Fight City.

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