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Canelo vs Golovkin II: The Last Word

It was three years ago today that boxing finally got the rematch it needed: Golovkin vs Canelo II. The word ‘finally’ here is a loaded one, with various ...
On September 15, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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Fear And Loathing In Zaire

Hunter S. Thompson is undoubtedly an icon of the “counter-culture” movement. He was also undoubtedly a miserable failure as a boxing writer. A motorcycle-racing, gun-loving, Nixon-hating, booze-swilling, narcotic-ingesting ...
On August 26, 2021 / By Sean Crose
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Still Stuck in Time: Manny, Marquez & Me

“Hard right hand by Marquez and for the first time in four fights Manny Pacquiao has been knocked down!” “Are you fucking kidding me?!” So I screamed at ...
On August 24, 2021 / By Carlos Ramirez H.
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Frampton vs Santa Cruz: Two Is Enough

The end of a champion’s career is naturally a time for reflection, and it so happens that the boxing journeys of two linked fighters appear to be winding ...
On August 3, 2021 / By Joshua Isard
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Plaster of Torrance (Part Two)

Plaster of Torrance: Unwrapping the Meaning of Antonio Margarito, Part Two. Excerpted from The Bittersweet Science. There are times when boxing matches resemble more a bullfight than they ...
On July 30, 2021 / By Rafael García
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Plaster Of Torrance (Part One)

Last week we marked the anniversary of the legendary first battle between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito. To pay further tribute to this remarkable fight, we would like ...
On July 29, 2021 / By Rafael García
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Older Than You Think

Like everyone else during the pandemic, I have at times been desperate for boxing content during the waits between live cards. To scratch that itch, I turned to ...
On July 19, 2021 / By Joshua Isard
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The Last Time I Sparred

I turned forty-years-old in 1998 and had not boxed competitively for over fifteen years. I still worked out regularly, though I called it “training,” instead of “working out,” ...
On July 5, 2021 / By Glen Sharp
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Teep To The Pods (No. 6)

Welcome to a special edition of Teep To The Pods as Robbie Teep and JayWolf look back at the history of mixed-martial-arts with a particular focus on the ...
On June 12, 2021 / By Robbie Teep
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Teep To The Pods (No. 5)

Bellator 260 is happening tomorrow night from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, so of course Robbie Teep comes through with another excellent preview podcast for your ...
On June 10, 2021 / By Robbie Teep
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Teep To The Pods (No. 4)

Robbie Teep is back with your podcast preview for tonight’s big show as Bellator 259 goes down at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. In addition to ...
On May 21, 2021 / By Robbie Teep
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Teep To The Pods (No. 3)

Time again for the man they call “Teep,” aka Teep To The Junk, our resident renowned raconteur on all things Bellator and MMA, to return with another podcast. For ...
On May 16, 2021 / By Robbie Teep
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Fifty Epic Fights: The 1990s

It’s been more than a year since our world was devastated by the deadly COVID-19 virus and we’re still far from getting back to normal. In fact, depending ...
On May 12, 2021 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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Teep To The Pods (No. 2)

The man they call “Teep,” aka Teep To The Junk, aka Julius OldSchoolius, that being our resident renowned raconteur on all things Bellator and MMA, returns for a ...
On May 7, 2021 / By Robbie Teep
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Canelo vs Saunders: High Pressure

Have you ever tried to squeeze all of the toothpaste out of the tube? I mean really tried. And I mean every last sticky particle of paste. No? ...
On May 5, 2021 / By Harry Meyerson
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Eighty Fights From The 80’s (Part Two)

We know you’ve barely started sampling all the great battles we listed yesterday in Part One of this list, but we promised, and so we deliver: here’s the ...
On April 29, 2021 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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Eighty Fights From The 80’s (Part One)

The 1980s were a monumental decade in politics, pop music and, of course, in boxing. Indeed, the eighties stand out for the sheer volume of exciting battles, not ...
On April 28, 2021 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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Teep To The Pods (No. 1)

While The Fight City is chiefly a boxing site, we have never been averse to offering coverage of mixed martial arts and today’s post represents a new step ...
On April 26, 2021 / By Robbie Teep
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Herring vs Frampton: In The Eyes Of The Jackal

In her 1986 treatise, On Boxing, renowned author Joyce Carol Oates writes that “the boxer meets an opponent who is a dream-distortion of himself in the sense that ...
On April 1, 2021 / By Luke Beirne
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The Loneliest Warriors

When Szilvia Szabados landed in Detroit shortly before midnight on March 6, 2017, she knew she was walking into hostile territory. The Hungarian challenger flew nineteen hours from ...
On March 18, 2021 / By Sheila Oviedo
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Glory Does Stay

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.” — James ...
On March 17, 2021 / By Patrick Connor
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When Thunder And Lightning Struck

One of my earliest boxing-related memories happened when I was seven. On a warm Saturday night my parents took me to my favorite restaurant, the one that served ...
On March 16, 2021 / By Rafael García
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Marvelous Marvin Hagler: 1954-2021

For those of us watching from the outside, who never knew Marvelous Marvin Hagler on a personal level, perhaps the characteristic which made the greatest impression was the ...
On March 13, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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Gonzalez vs Estrada II: At Last

This Saturday a Texas shootout is going down between elite gunslingers, one no serious fight fan can afford to miss. A little more than eight years since their ...
On March 11, 2021 / By Rafael García
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The Executioner’s Greatest Victories

To state the obvious, fight fans have always been attracted to thunderous power punchers. The sheer violence of a sudden, dramatic knockout is a major part of boxing’s ...
On February 27, 2021 / By Jamie Rebner
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On Leon Spinks

In mourning the death of Leon Spinks one week ago, one is not lamenting the loss of “a great fighter,” as some, moved by sentiment, have called him, ...
On February 12, 2021 / By Neil Crane
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February Fights

After a busy few months at the end of 2020 during which many top fighters answered the bell, 2021 has been off to a slow start. Thankfully February ...
On February 3, 2021 / By Harry Meyerson
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No More Lights

With boxing still profoundly affected by the ongoing pandemic, we will continue to periodically revisit some of our past feature articles. Today, we look back to when our ...
On January 31, 2021 / By Rafael García
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Beyond The Sky

For Brin-Jonathan Butler I didn’t have ten dollars to spend on event parking, so I drove up and parked on the hill below Maine Medical Center. Then I ...
On January 23, 2021 / By B. A. Cass
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Above All Mortals

With boxing still profoundly affected by the ongoing pandemic, we will continue to periodically revisit some of our past feature articles. Today, on the anniversary of the great ...
On January 12, 2021 / By Patrick Connor

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