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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, 2020 / 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, 2020 / By Rafael García
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Older Than You Think

Like everyone else during the quarantine, I’ve been desperate for boxing content in the months between live cards. Aside from YouTube rabbit holes, I also dove into books ...
On July 20, 2020 / By Joshua Isard
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Fifty Epic Fights: The 1990s

We got some bad news, fellow fight fans: looks like COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere, at least not for quite a while. So, depending on where you reside, you ...
On July 14, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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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 July 9, 2020 / By Sean Crose
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The Super Middleweight Super Six

Since being established by the major sanctioning bodies in the mid-80s, the super middleweight class has produced some classic contests. I was fortunate to grow into an avid ...
On June 1, 2020 / By Matt O'Brien
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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 May 28, 2020 / By Glen Sharp
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Happy Birthday To Marvelous Marvin

It’s the birthday of “The Marvelous One,” an all-time great middleweight champion who, for close to a full decade, was part of any discussion about the best fighter ...
On May 23, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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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 May 13, 2020 / 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 May 12, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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Remembering #MayPac

Five years ago today one of the most eagerly anticipated matches in the long history of professional prizefighting, Mayweather vs Pacquiao, went down in Vegas and our own ...
On May 2, 2020 / By Rafael García
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Whatever Happened To Scott Harrison?

For a country so small, Scotland has punched well above its weight in producing champion boxers. Benny Lynch, “The Little King of the Gorbals,” famously lit up the ...
On April 24, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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“A Moment I Will Never Forget”

It was one of the biggest fights in boxing history and one of the most controversial. Sugar Ray vs Marvelous Marvin. Hagler vs Leonard. Few fights have been ...
On April 6, 2020 / By Thad Moore
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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 18, 2020 / By Rafael García
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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 16, 2020 / By Patrick Connor
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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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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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