Browsing Category Boxiana
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July 12, 1996: Holyfield vs Qawi
You rarely see fighters who love the sheer brutality of boxing as much as Dwight Muhammad Qawi did. Fighters who smile when they take punches. Fighters who literally ...
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July 12, 1948: Williams vs Jack
By 1948, everybody knew the party was almost over for Beau Jack. The former lightweight king and the all-time champ when it came to headlining main events at Madison Square ...
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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. ...
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Boxiana 1
July 9, 1989: Rosario vs Jones
When we compare and rank boxers of the past, something all serious fight fans love to do, one of the key criteria is longevity. This has less to ...
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Boxiana 0
July 7, 1985: Chavez vs Mayweather I
It’s 1985 and everyone south of the border already knows who the next great Mexican boxer will be. The only problem is pretty much no one north of ...
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Boxiana 1
July 6, 1979: Gonzalez vs Oguma IV
The career of Betulio Gonzalez, which should be enshrined in the Hall of Fame but for reasons unknown is not, featured numerous clashes with various champions, but was ...
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Boxiana 3
Fight City Legends: King of the Canebrakes
It’s October 3, 1933 and a young man, a fighter, lies close to death in a hospital bed in Macon, Georgia. The room is quiet, morose even, such ...
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Boxiana 1
July 4, 1910: Johnson vs Jeffries
In 1910, Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries clashed in Reno, Nevada to contest the world heavyweight crown in what was then billed as ‘The Fight of the ...
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Boxiana 0
July 2, 1921: Dempsey vs Carpentier
The year was 1921. Jack Dempsey, the heavyweight champion of the world, reigned as the most titanic figure in all of professional sports, though his public image had been recently ...
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Boxiana 0
June 29, 1942: Charles vs Burley II
No one knowledgeable about the long history of prizefighting doubts the standing of Charley Burley. The man was so good even Sugar Ray Robinson avoided him. And no ...
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Boxiana 0
June 27, 1987: Hilton vs Drayton
Fighting families are not exactly unique in boxing. Indeed, the history of prizefighting is filled with siblings who shared the profession, such as Max and Buddy Baer, Leon ...
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Boxiana 6
June 26, 1972: Duran vs Buchanan
In September of 1970, Scotland’s Ken Buchanan won the WBA version of the lightweight championship by close 15 round decision over Panamanian Ismael Laguna. He would defend his ...
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Boxiana 4
June 25, 1952: Maxim vs Robinson
In boxing, as in other avenues of life, it is possible to be too good for your own good. Sugar Ray Robinson is regarded by many as the ...
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Boxiana 3
June 25, 1981: Leonard vs Kalule
Here’s the thing some people don’t get about Sugar Ray Leonard: the man was more athlete than boxer, and, despite his “sweet” nickname, he was more bad-ass than ...
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Boxiana 0
Fight City Legends: The Manassa Mauler
If boxing’s greatest era is that in which it was most popular, then Jack Dempsey is the fighter most identified with the sport’s zenith. The ‘Manassa Mauler,’ whose ...
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Boxiana 1
June 22, 1979: Duran vs Palomino
If one were to rank the finest performances of the great Roberto Duran, his ten round win at New York’s Madison Square Garden over former welterweight champ Carlos Palomino should ...
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Boxiana 1
June 22, 1938: Louis-Schmeling II
Former world champion Max Schmeling was a solid 10-to-1 underdog when he faced rising contender and awesome knockout artist Joe Louis in a major heavyweight showdown in June ...
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Boxiana 0
June 21, 2003: Lewis vs Klitschko
“He entered to the strings of ‘Hotel California,'” wondered HBO’s Jim Lampley. “So will it be heaven, or will it be hell?” Lampley was no doubt one of ...
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Boxiana 5
June 20, 1980: Duran vs Leonard I
Time waits for no one, as the old cliché goes, a statement whose meaning the young can barely grasp and alas, I am young no longer. But 39 ...
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Boxiana 1
June 19, 1936: Louis vs Schmeling
Think back, if you will boxing fans, and recollect those breathless days of yesteryear, when the young, can’t-miss prospect, the next great star of the ring, thrilled you ...
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Boxiana 0
Billy Conn: Risk vs Reward
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” — Soren Kierkegaard Over the decades we have been told time ...
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Boxiana 4
June 18, 1941: Louis vs Conn I
It is 1941 and while some say death and taxes are the only sure things in life, American sports fans know different. There exists a third certainty: Joe Louis ...
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Boxiana 3
June 16, 1983: Duran vs Moore
In 1980, Roberto Duran‘s already legendary career reached both its zenith and its nadir. Having abandoned the lightweight division he had dominated for more than seven years, and ...
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Boxiana 0
June 15, 1984: Hearns vs Duran
At the time, the story lines had not yet become vivid, the true significance of what was unfolding not yet clear. The term “The Four Kings” had yet ...
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Boxiana 3
Fight City Legends: The Michigan Assassin
For middleweight legend Stanley Ketchel, the boxing ring was the only theater in which his mania could legally project its voice. Born in 1886 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, ...
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Boxiana 0
June 12, 1989: Hearns vs Leonard II
Their first meeting in 1981, one of the biggest fights in boxing history, was called “The Showdown,” an appellation which made sense given that each held one of ...
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Boxiana 6
June 11, 1982: Holmes vs Cooney
It was boxing’s biggest night, but for all the wrong reasons. In terms of sheer popularity, exposure, and the money that goes with it, the 1980s has to ...
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Boxiana 0
June 9, 1978: Holmes vs Norton
While it might be going a bit far to classify Ken Norton as a “hard-luck fighter,” it’s difficult not to see him as such when one considers all ...
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Boxiana 0
June 8, 2002: Lewis vs Tyson
Legitimate superfights in boxing tend not to just happen spontaneously, but instead are built up over time. The first bout between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali was years ...
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Boxiana 2
Rikki-Tikki-Harry
“….young Mr. Greb, acting like Mr. Kipling’s mongoose, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, bounced, caromed, slid and glided from so many angles and in so many ways at the more orthodox and ...
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