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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 ...
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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,” ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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? ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Golovkin vs Canelo: The Last Word
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 the still ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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2020 Fighter Of The Year
Fighter Of The Year Nominations: Tyson Fury Teofimo Lopez Joe Smith Jr. Katie Taylor Winner: Teofimo Lopez It’s been a difficult year, on this we can all agree. ...
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2020 Fight Of The Year
Fight Of The Year Nominations: Jose Zepeda KO5 Ivan Baranchyk Juan Francisco Estrada TKO11 Carlos Cuadras Roman Gonzalez TKO8 Kal Yafai Alex Povetkin TKO5 Dillian Whyte Masayoshi Nakatani ...
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2020 Performance Of The Year
Performance Of The Year Nominations: Roman Gonzalez TKO9 Kal Yafai Kazuto Ioka TKO 8 Kosei Tanaka Tyson Fury TKO 7 Deontay Wilder Teofimo Lopez W12 Vasiliy Lomachenko Gervonta ...
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2020 Round Of The Year
Round Of The Year Nominations: Jose Zepeda vs Ivan Baranchyk, Round Two Clay Collard vs Raymond Guajardo, Round One Gervonta Davis vs Leo Santa Cruz, Round Six Kazuto ...
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2020 Knockout Of The Year
Knockout Of The Year Nominations: Alex Povetkin TKO5 Dillian Whyte Gervonta Davis KO6 Leo Santa Cruz Eleider Alvarez KO7 Michael Seals Naoya Inoue KO7 Jason Moloney Joe Smith ...
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