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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 list of the all-time best to lace up ...
On October 15, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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Sept. 9, 1983: Pryor vs Arguello II

Do a Google search for Alexis Arguello and you end up with articles and videos about Aaron Pryor. Do one for Aaron Pryor and you end up with ...
On September 9, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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 ...
On August 12, 2021 / By Rafael García
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 ...
On July 28, 2021 / By Joshua Isard
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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 ...
On July 23, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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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 ...
On July 21, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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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 ...
On June 20, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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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 ...
On June 10, 2021 / By Neil Crane
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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 ...
On May 22, 2021 / By Patrick Connor
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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 ...
On May 8, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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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 April 28, 2021 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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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 ...
On March 9, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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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” ...
On January 25, 2021 / By Shaun Brown
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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 ...
On January 20, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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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 ...
On January 14, 2021 / By Joshua Isard
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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 ...
On December 11, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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 ...
On December 9, 2020 / By Rafael García
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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 ...
On November 20, 2020 / By Rafael García
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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 ...
On November 16, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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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 ...
On November 12, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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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 ...
On October 29, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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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 ...
On October 20, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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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 ...
On July 20, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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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 ...
On July 15, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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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 ...
On July 14, 2018 / By Sherif Dhaimish
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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, ...
On October 20, 2016 / By TBRB
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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 ...
On October 10, 2016 / By Robert Portis
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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, ...
On October 2, 2016 / By Sean Crose
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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 ...
On September 7, 2016 / By Robert Portis
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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 ...
On April 22, 2016 / By Robert Portis

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