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Crazy Indeed

Crazy. In retrospect it was perfect, one word summing-up with eloquent simplicity everything about a fight that climaxed with so many on their feet, staring on in disbelief. ...
On February 24, 2020 / By Nelson Wills
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Wilder vs Fury II: The Fight City Picks

Their first battle in December of 2018 was an entertaining and surprisingly dramatic tilt with an unforgettable final round, but the draw verdict at the end left many ...
On February 17, 2020 / By Neil Crane
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Hardy vs Vincent: ‘A Sellable Thing’

Dressed in black spandex and sporting her long blond hair in pig tails, Heather Hardy stepped into the ring at the BB King Club and Grill in mid-town ...
On January 27, 2020 / By B. A. Cass
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McCluskey’s Dozen: Thirty Years Of Talent

Talent is an almost indefinable quality. You can spot it in a prodigious young athlete, but at the same time it’s difficult to define precisely what it is. ...
On January 23, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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Top 12 Fights We Want To See In 2020

No one can dispute the fact that 2019 was a strong year for boxing with some excellent fights we’ll remember for a long time to come. Match-ups such ...
On January 20, 2020 / By Rob Lownie
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2019 Fighter Of The Year

Fighter of the Year Nominees Vasyl Lomachenko Naoya Inoue Saul “Canelo” Alvarez Josh Taylor Manny Pacquiao Jean Pascal Winner: Naoya Inoue Welcome to the Two Fight Club! Sadly, ...
On January 7, 2020 / By Neil Crane
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2019 Fight Of The Year

Fight of the Year Nominations: Julian Williams W12 Jarrett Hurd David Lemieux W10 Max Bursak Gennady Golovkin W12 Sergiy Derevyanchenko Errol Spence W12 Shawn Porter Yuki Beppu TKO10 ...
On January 7, 2020 / By Matt O'Brien
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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 Performance Of The Year

Performance of the Year Nominees: Sergey Kovalev (vs Eleider Alvarez) Nonito Donaire (vs Naoya Inoue) Naoya Inoue (vs Nonito Donaire) Manny Pacquiao (vs Keith Thurman) Canelo Alvarez (vs ...
On January 6, 2020 / By Hunter Breckenridge
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2019 Upset Of The Year

Upset of the Year Nominees: Andy Ruiz Jr. TKO7 Anthony Joshua Andrew Cancio KO4 Alberto Machado Julian Williams W12 Jarrett Hurd Oscar Escandon KO1 Jhack Tepora Jean Pascal ...
On January 5, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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2019 Round Of The Year

Round of the Year Nominees: Jean Pascal vs Badou Jack: Round Twelve Naoya Inoue vs Nonito Donaire: Round Eleven David Lemieux vs Max Bursak: Round Ten Maurice Hooker ...
On January 5, 2020 / By Alden Chodash
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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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The Fighter Of The Decade

In a way, it makes perfect sense that the true stand-out prizefighter of the past decade would become for many boxing fans, if not most, something of an ...
On December 31, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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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 December 18, 2019 / By B. A. Cass
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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 19 hours from ...
On December 14, 2019 / By Sheila Oviedo
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Stuck in Time: Manny, Marquez and 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 December 8, 2019 / By Carlos Ramirez H.
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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, And The Round That Went Too Long

“My writing is nothing. My boxing is everything.” So said the one and only Ernest Hemingway, one of the twentieth century’s most captivating and revered writers. Literary titan. ...
On December 2, 2019 / By Sean Crose
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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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Kovalev vs Canelo: Searching For Answers

On Saturday night reigning middleweight king Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will challenge light heavyweight titlist Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev in a bid to become world champion in a third weight ...
On October 31, 2019 / By Rafael García
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Prograis vs Taylor: The Fight City Picks

Another week, another best-vs-best match that unifies belts and adds some always needed clarity to the boxing landscape. Enjoy it while you can, fight fans! As we all ...
On October 23, 2019 / By Neil Crane
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At The Crossroads

The amateur boxing scene in Canada has been busy these days with the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games less than a year away. There’s still much to do with ...
On October 23, 2019 / By Steven Green
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Taylor vs Prograis: Primed For Greatness

Taylor vs Prograis: a showdown to decide the last man standing at 140 pounds. Saturday’s junior welterweight unification between southpaws Josh Taylor and Regis Prograis might be the ...
On October 22, 2019 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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Hawk Time Forever

Were he still with us, Aaron Pryor would be 64-years-old today. Gone too soon, and taken in the same year that saw the passing of Muhammad Ali, the ...
On October 20, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Beterbiev vs Gvozdyk: Light Heavyweight Lift Off

Recent weeks have seen boxing fans spoiled by a deluge of terrific contests between big-name fighters. From the back-and-forth battle between Errol Spence Jr. and Shawn Porter, to ...
On October 14, 2019 / By Rob Lownie
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Philadelphia Marks Five Decades of Peltz Boxing

There was an atmosphere of celebration last Friday night, but one with an accent of sadness, as a nine fight card full of competitive bouts went off at ...
On October 9, 2019 / By Joshua Isard
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Spence vs Porter: The Fight City Picks

You can make the case that this match-up should have happened a while ago. You can also point out that one of the two combatants didn’t look very ...
On September 25, 2019 / By Neil Crane
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Ryan Ford At The O2: Photo Gallery By Jeff Lockhart

No one can say born warrior Ryan Ford hasn’t had his chances to break through to greater prominence and a higher ranking in the light heavyweight division, but ...
On September 5, 2019 / By Neil Crane
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The Macon Bibb United Boxing Club

From the outside, the industrial building where the Macon Bibb United Boxing Club can be found looks nothing like a place for the serious pursuit of the brutal ...
On September 4, 2019 / By James Simpson
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Remembering Mantequilla

If our current time is one of shifting identities and countless refugees, then José Ángel Nápoles is somehow, despite the passage of time, emblematic of it. His journey ...
On August 20, 2019 / By Neil Crane

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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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