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Hawk Time Forever

Were he still with us, Aaron Pryor would be 65-years-old today. Gone too soon, and taken in the same year that saw the passing of Muhammad Ali, “The ...
On October 20, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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Oct. 18, 1991: Mercer vs Morrison

Most boxing fans are familiar with the ancient chestnut, “As the heavyweights go, so goes boxing,” and it would be difficult to argue that the old saw bears ...
On October 18, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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Oct. 14, 1949: Gavilan vs Jack

It was the classic clash of the old king vs the future king when the once-great Beau Jack met Kid Gavilan in Chicago Stadium in a ten round, non-title ...
On October 14, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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Oct. 10, 1962: Harada vs Kingpetch

Pone Kingpetch, Thailand’s first world champion, had won the flyweight crown from Pascual Pérez, an impressive achievement considering the Argentinian is without a doubt one of the finest ...
On October 10, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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Oct. 5, 1936: Canzoneri vs McLarnin II

Tony Canzoneri vs Jimmy McLarnin. Two of the very best from one of boxing’s greatest decades, the 1930’s, the Depression years, the glorious time of Kid Chocolate, Barney ...
On October 5, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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Fight Report: Charlo vs Derevyanchenko

“You can’t always get what you want,” goes the old saw, “but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.” And despite all the frustrations and disappointments ...
On September 27, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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Aug. 9, 1980: Palma vs Randolph

In 1976, a group of young athletes journeyed to Montreal to fight for their country. There were no great expectations for the men who populated the American Olympic ...
On August 9, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Catchers

On this day way back in 1922, the man they would come to call “The Bronx Bull” was born. Jake LaMotta would go on to not only become ...
On July 10, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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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 ...
On June 27, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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Happy Birthday To Marvelous Marvin

It’s the birthday of “The Marvelous One,” an all-time great middleweight champion who, for close to a full decade, was part of any discussion about the best fighter ...
On May 23, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweights

At a very leisurely pace over the last couple of years, The Fight City has offered its own idiosyncratic rankings of the all-time greatest boxers in each of ...
On March 7, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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Fight Report: Gonzalez vs Yafai

The Event: The main event, or so we were told, for last night’s solid DAZN card from Texas was a showdown of welterweight contenders, Mikey Garcia and Jessie ...
On February 29, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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2019 Knockout Of The Year

Knockout of the Year Nominations: Nonito Donaire KO6 Stephon Young Ryan Rozicki KO2 Khetag Pliev Oscar Escandon KO1 Jhack Tepora Teofimo Lopez TKO2 Richard Commey Deontay Wilder KO7 ...
On January 6, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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2019: The Nominations

As the old saying goes, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” and it’s difficult to conjure up a more apt statement ...
On January 3, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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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 30, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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The Twelve Rounds Of Christmas

It’s a timeless Yuletide classic, a tune sung for centuries at this time of year, but now “The Twelve Days Of Christmas” has a special pugnacious and pugilistic ...
On December 25, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweight Punchers

When it comes to popular water-cooler topics in boxing, few, if any, top this one: who is the most powerful puncher to ever step through the ropes? Now ...
On November 28, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Top 12 All-Time Best Welterweights

Our ratings of the all-time greatest fighters in each of the traditional eight weight classes continues with a look at the storied ranks of the welterweight division. As ...
On November 13, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Canelo vs Kovalev: What We Learned

It was an unlikely and unexpected event before it became one of the most anticipated showdowns of the year. Canelo vs Kovalev: a crossroads fight with major implications ...
On November 3, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Canelo vs Kovalev: The Fight City Picks

A few short months ago, absolutely no one in boxing was thinking about a clash between Mexico’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and light heavyweight titlist Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev of ...
On October 31, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Top 12 All-Time Worst Cheap Shots

All intentional fouls or blindside hits are cheap, but for this list we define a “cheap shot,” also known as a “sucker punch,” as a blow rendered when ...
On October 13, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Featherweights

We’ve ranked the all-time greatest middleweights, bantamweights, light heavyweights and flyweights. Now we turn to the featherweights and offer our ranking of the best to ever lace up ...
On August 14, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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It’s Your Move, Bud!

If we say it too loudly we might just jinx it, but we have to give credit where it’s due: Al Haymon’s PBC at long last figured out ...
On May 17, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Canelo vs Jacobs: Praying For A Miracle

There are journalists and there are fans. I periodically write about boxing, but I don’t claim to be a serious reporter and I hope I never do. You ...
On May 3, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Canelo vs Jacobs: The Fight City Picks

We’re almost half-way through 2019 and boxing fans can pretty much count on one hand the number of truly compelling, high-profile and legitimate best-vs-best contests we’ve been able ...
On May 2, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Rungvisai vs Estrada II: Unfinished Business

This Friday, fourteen months after their first fight, Thailand’s prodigal son, Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, and Mexico’s own Juan Francisco “Gallito” Estrada, will meet again to settle some unfinished ...
On April 23, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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The Portis Pound-For-Pound

The other week Max Kellerman, currently pugilism’s premier talking head, released his new, updated pound-for-pound rankings and it sent all the hardcore boxing geeks into a tizzy. For ...
On April 6, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Big Wins For Theroux And ‘Free Boy’

It’s only February but already 2019 is proving to be an outstanding year for fisticuffs at the Cabaret Room in the Casino de Montreal with a couple of ...
On February 17, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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The Fight City Podcast No. 13

Time for another edition of The Fight City podcast, hosted by Alden Chodash, with site editor Michael Carbert also offering his insights as they look back on the big fights ...
On February 5, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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2018 Fight Of The Year

Nominations: Srisaket Sor Rungvisai vs Juan Francisco Estrada Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin II Jarrett Hurd vs Erislandy Lara Dereck Chisora vs Carlos Takam Tyson Fury vs Deontay ...
On January 7, 2019 / By Robert Portis

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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