Browsing Tag Alexis Arguello
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The Top Twelve 1
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Body Punchers
Body punchers don’t get enough love. Dramatic instances where a paralyzing left hook to the liver or a crushing right to the ribs produces a KO aside, much ...
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Boxiana 11
July 21, 1982: Sanchez vs Nelson
There’s that old 1960s query: what if they had a war and nobody came? Considering the 1982 clash between featherweights Salvador Sanchez and Azumah Nelson, the better question ...
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Boxiana 11
June 20, 1980: Duran vs Leonard I
Time waits for no one, as the old cliché goes, a statement whose meaning the young can barely grasp and alas, I am young no longer. But four ...
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The Top Twelve 3
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Opening Rounds
In boxing, as in most things in life, it’s quality, not quantity. Excitement is the name of the game and the greatest fights are the ones offering the ...
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Boxiana 0
May 22, 1982: Arguello vs Ganigan
A few years back the rise of Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez as a rare flyweight superstar again put the nation of Nicaragua on the boxing map, but in fact ...
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May 8, 1982: Mancini vs Frias
By this time all of America knew the Ray Mancini story; precious few knew the tale of Arturo Frias. While “Boom Boom” Mancini was something out of a ...
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Features 2
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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Boxiana 0
March 9, 2013: Hopkins vs Cloud
The amazing Old Man Hopkins show continued, but did anyone really want to keep watching it? Hopkins vs Cloud had The Barclays Center in Brooklyn little more than ...
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Scottish Boxers
Happy Robbie Burns Day, fight fans! Despite the ravages of Covid-19, it’s still a day to celebrate for all Scottish warriors. But instead of reciting “To A Haggis” ...
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Boxiana 1
Jan. 20, 1980: Arguello vs Castillo
It is 1980 and Alexis Arguello is a two-time world champion, already regarded as a future Hall of Famer, if not an all-time great. The Nicaraguan is the ...
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Boxiana 1
Jan. 14, 1984: Mancini vs Chacon
Boxing is not an old man’s sport and over the decades there have been plenty of what we might call “passing-the-torch” fights, when age gives way to younger ...
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Boxiana 2
Dec. 12, 1982: Chacon vs Limon IV
They called him “The Schoolboy,” because he had once attended university, a rare thing among professional prizefighters. But make no mistake, despite the nickname and the ever-present boyish ...
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Fight City Reviews 1
Ray Mancini: The Good Son
The 1980s remain perhaps the most successful decade in boxing’s history, a rare time when the sport was highly popular and widely accepted as mainstream entertainment. Champions such ...
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Fight City Reviews 2
Las Glorias del Gran Puas
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” — George Best The Northern Ireland footballer’s famous quip is less ...
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Nov. 16, 1979: Arguello vs Chacon
Bobby Chacon had been an overnight sensation in California, a popular young fighter attracting big crowds to the Inglewood Forum and the Olympic Auditorium. But as quickly as ...
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Boxiana 3
Nov. 12, 1982: Pryor vs Arguello I
It’s November, 1982 and the sport of boxing is bigger than ever. Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns are all mainstream stars and fight fans enjoy ...
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Oct. 29, 1987: Hearns vs Roldan
The great Henry Armstrong had come agonizingly close to accomplishing the feat. Latter day legends Alexis Arguello and Roberto Duran had tried and failed. But finally, for the ...
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Features 2
Hawk Time Forever
Were he still with us, Aaron Pryor would be 65-years-old today. Gone too soon, and taken in the same year that saw the passing of Muhammad Ali, “The ...
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Boxiana 3
Sept. 9, 1983: Pryor vs Arguello II
Do a Google search for Alexis Arguello and you end up with photos and videos about Aaron Pryor. Do one for Aaron Pryor and you end up with ...
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Fight City Reviews 3
Sun Kil Moon: “Salvador Sanchez”
In Salvador Sanchez, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek walks amongst men who died much too soon. Such deaths are tragic by definition, but in the case of the men depicted ...
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Fight City Reviews 1
The Gods Of War
One of the best parts about being a boxing fan is the vitality of the sport’s history and the spirited debates and discussions that arise from it. The ...
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The Top Twelve 6
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Featherweights
We’ve ranked the all-time greatest middleweights, bantamweights, light heavyweights and flyweights. Now we turn to the featherweights and offer our ranking of the best to ever lace up ...
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Features 1
Kovalev vs Alvarez: Atlantic City Comeback
Everyone loves a successful sports comeback and on August 4th, in more than one way, that’s exactly what we’re going to see. In fact, that particular date has ...
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Fight Reports 0
Fight Report: Pacquiao vs Matthysse
The Event It is easy to forget that Pacquiao vs Matthysse is a match that fight fans have been waiting for since 2013. Before Lucas Matthysse’s trail of ...
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Salvation In The Underground: BKB On The Rise
“Professional fighting is a paradox. It appears dangerous and yet it saves lives.” So says Seamus Devlin, a bare-knuckle fighter based in northwest England. In the spirit of ...
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Remembering The Hawk
2016 has not been kind to boxing. We’ve lost a number of great fighters, not to mention the colossal living legend that was Muhammad Ali. But most recently, ...
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Features 1
Aaron Pryor: 1955-2016
As it was with his great rival, Alexis Arguello, who also died far too young, we find ourselves alarmed to be reading tributes for Aaron Pryor, who succumbed ...
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Columns 1
His Own Worst Enemy
I think it’s safe to say that Tyson Fury was not taking his rematch with Wladimir Klitschko as seriously as he should have. As we now all know, ...
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Features 3
Remembering Bobby Chacon
Sometimes the price of glory is steep and painful. In the case of Bobby Chacon, it would appear, at least to those who have never known what it ...
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Top Men: Hardest P4P Punchers Ever
Starting today, The Fight City is pleased to bring you episodes of Patrick Connor’s Top Men Boxing Radio podcast. This week, Patrick, noted boxing scribe and historian, along ...
