Browsing All Posts By Rafael García
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The Fight City 0
Je Me Souviens
The Place Bell is situated a five-minute walk from the doors of the Montmorency metro station in Laval, just north of Montreal. But when the temperature is -15 ...
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Features 0
Saunders vs Lemieux: Middleweight Crossroads
The middleweights are a class we have deemed more than once to be an unabashed mess given the fact that for several years it has been populated at ...
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Fight City Reviews 2
Reading the Fights
At first glance, Reading the Fights is a compendium of insightful essays which alternate between examining the responses boxing evokes and bringing to life stories of its past, thus providing ...
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Features 10
Battle For The Soul Of Mexican Boxing
If you place a large map of Mexico on your wall and then try to put your finger exactly on its center, your index will land very close ...
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Features 4
Getting Set For SUPERFLY
In a truly excellent year for boxing, this weekend’s SUPERFLY card is in a class of its own. The world’s top five super flyweights will be in action, ...
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Features 2
Adrien Broner: No More Lights
“Yo, maroon! Adrien Broner sucks, bro!” The six-foot high, 250-plus pounds guy in the burgundy jacket at the urinal next to mine didn’t flinch, so the guy doing ...
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Features 0
Adios, Dinamita
Greatness has a soft spot for grit. In the ring, Juan Manuel Marquez had grit in spades. He showed it practically every time he stepped between the ropes. ...
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Features 0
Fight Report: Garcia vs Broner
The Event At the Barclays Center of Brooklyn, New York, highly regarded Mikey Garcia met perennial troublemaker Adrien Broner in a bout that came together unexpectedly, adding a ...
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Features 2
Opposites Collide: Broner vs Garcia
Sometimes fights arrive in boxing that no one asked or expected to see. These fights serve as reminders that prizefighters are mercenaries first and foremost, willing to showcase ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Gentleman Jim Speaks
The Roar of the Crowd: The True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion Originally published in 1925, The Roar of the Crowd is an entertaining ...
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Features 1
Brook vs Spence: Closer to The Truth
Tomorrow night at Bramall Lane Ground in Sheffield, England, IBF welterweight titlist Kell Brook will defend his belt against fearsome up-and-comer Errol Spence Jr. If most fight fans ...
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Columns 0
Canelo vs Golovkin: Four Steps To Make It The Event Of The Year
Louis C. K. has a good bit about how words are neither good nor bad, but just happen to become good or bad depending on how people use them. ...
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The Top Twelve 4
Top 12 All-Time Greatest All-Mexican Fights
As we get set for the Cinco de Mayo extravaganza of an all-Mexican showdown tonight between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., what better time could ...
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Features 1
Canelo vs Chavez Jr.: A Question of Value
“Nobody knows what a dollar is, what the word means, what holds the thing up, what it stands in for. And that’s also what my work is about. Look ...
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Columns 11
The Greatness Of Gonzalez
Allegedly, 60% of Roman Gonzalez is plain water, just like the rest of us. It begs the question: does that leave enough room in his compact 5’3″ frame ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Sun Kil Moon: “Salvador Sanchez”
In Salvador Sanchez, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek walks amongst men who died before their time. Such deaths are tragic almost by definition, but in the case of the young ...
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Columns 0
PBC’s Hard Lessons
Last week two high profile articles hit the web describing in almost grotesque detail the way Premier Boxing Champions—Al Haymon’s infamous boxing league—has been bled nearly dry. The ...
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The Top Twelve 4
Top 12 All-Time Biggest Welterweight Fights
35 years ago one of the biggest fights in boxing history shattered box-office and telecast records and ushered in the era of The Four Kings. Hearns vs Leonard ...
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Features 5
Live To Fight Another Day
Reporting on a Gennady Golovkin fight mostly requires writing about why that fight came to be, with lots of speculation–most of it pointless–about what could possibly come next. ...
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Crawford vs Postol: The Fight City Picks
Saturday night in Las Vegas, 28-year-old Terence Crawford and 32-year-old Viktor Postol will headline what could become a memorable PPV show at the top of the junior welterweight division. Bud ...
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The Middleweight Mess Redux
In February of last year The Fight City staffers engaged in a no-holds-barred conversation about the sorry state of the middleweight ranks. The division in which such names as Sugar Ray ...
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Columns 25
A Tweet Is Worth A Thousand Words
Many fight fans have learned their lesson regarding big fights and thus refuse to believe Andre Ward will face Sergey Kovalev before 2016 comes to a close. However, ...
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Columns 10
On Canelo, Golovkin, Marinating, And Other Mamadas
“Como decimos en Mexico, vamos a dejarnos de mamadas” –Canelo Alvarez In Spanish, mamada is a noun derived from the verb mamar, which literally means ‘to suckle’. Being ...
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Columns 0
A Question No One Asked
Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan meet tonight at the Strip’s brand new T-Mobile Arena for a contest that on the surface looks like a can’t miss Vegas extravaganza. ...
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Columns 0
A Futile Waiting Game
“You don’t want the fight, I understand, you’re 100% a businessman. But I wait, I’ve been waiting… let’s go fight.” –Gennady Golovkin No matter the circumstances surrounding Gennady ...
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Columns 8
#PacNelo Is Coming
“Boxing is a business” is the phrase fighters, promoters, managers, and even fight fans use to justify about 85% of the matches that we get to see on ...
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Columns 3
Pacquiao Off His Pedestal
Comparing disfavorably a significant subset of the human population to animals is not a good way to win friends, especially when the one speaking had for so long ...
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Columns 2
Dinamita’s Last Stand?
It’s been almost two years since Mexican great Juan Manuel Marquez stepped into a boxing ring and got paid for it. The last occasion in which that happened ...
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Columns 6
#CaneloKhan: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
The boxing kingpin of the post-#MayPac era, and the fighter to whom HBO and Golden Boy Promotions have entrusted their minting operations, has finally announced his first engagement ...
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Features 6
The Mercenary and The Believer
Try as hard as you can and you’ll still fail to find a professional boxer who embodies the definition of “mercenary” better than Miguel Cotto does. While by ...
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