Browsing All Posts By David Como
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Boxiana 3
May 27, 1983: Hagler vs Scypion
The fighters in the ring, the crowd amped up, and Dick Johnson pulls out a saxophone to play the national anthem. He starts in, getting jazzy, dirty. The ...
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Boxiana 2
April 30, 1928: Sharkey vs Delaney
The day after the fight, James A. Farley, Chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, states there will be a full investigation. Prior to the match, Farley ...
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Boxiana 2
March 21, 1988: Tyson vs Tubbs
Mike Tyson marries Robin Givens in February of 1988, then boards a plane to Tokyo, fulfilling a promise he made two years prior to defend his title for ...
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Boxiana 0
Feb. 20, 1993: Chavez vs Haugen
When Joe Cortez stopped the fight, even Haugen must have felt like things were in their right place. He took on the role of villain with Chavez, years ...
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Boxiana 2
Dec. 20, 1963: Carter vs Griffith
You should forget that Bob Dylan song for a minute. Don’t even think about Denzel Washington. Get beyond the courtrooms, the jail cells. Go back to Pittsburgh. Was a storm ...
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Boxiana 2
Nov. 7, 1970: Monzon vs Benvenuti
“When I gazed at him I was thinking: ‘Tonight, I’m going to kill you.’” — Carlos Monzon on Nino Benvenuti The Romans didn’t know Carlos Monzon. He was ...
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Boxiana 2
Oct. 21, 1953: Olson vs Turpin
“They say I haven’t trained hard enough for this fight. Who is to be the judge of how hard I work? I have worked all right, harder than ...
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Boxiana 4
Sept. 23, 1957: Robinson vs Basilio
The great Sugar Ray Robinson had retired from boxing, had been singing and tap-dancing for three years. He didn’t have much success, so he came back to the ...
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Aug. 25, 1930: Baer vs Campbell
At the end of the second, Frankie Campbell tells his corner, “Something feels like it broke in my head.” He’d put future heavyweight champion Max Baer down in ...
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Boxiana 3
July 11, 1996: Bowe vs Golota I
Golota gets eleven stitches, his head smashed open with a two-way radio. His trainer, 74-year-old Lou Duva, leaves the ring on a stretcher and is taken to hospital. ...
