Hawk Time Forever
Were he still with us, Aaron Pryor would be 66-years-old today. Gone too soon, and taken in the same year
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Happy Birthday To “The Real Deal”
“I shook up the world!” Famous words uttered by “The Greatest” that not only came to define Muhammad Ali, but
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Fury vs Wilder: Repeat Or Revenge?
Believe it or not, it was almost six years ago that Tyson Fury journeyed to the Barclays Center in New
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Manny Pacquiao: You Had To Be There
You’ve seen it. The photo taken when he was sixteen, standing in a corner, staring at the camera, hard to
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Joshua vs Usyk: The Fight City Picks
A long, long time ago, back before anyone had ever heard of something called “COVID-19,” we published a list of
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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