Jan. 15, 1990: Foreman vs Cooney
They billed Foreman vs Cooney as “The Preacher and The Puncher,” but it quickly became known as “The Geezers at
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Archie Moore
Reading The Fights
At first glance, Reading the Fights is a compendium of insightful essays which alternate between examining the responses boxing evokes
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Victories
For the purposes of this list, a great victory is one secured in the face of an overwhelming disadvantage, or
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Dec. 15, 1995: Gatti vs Patterson
This was the beginning, the dawn of the legend that was to become Arturo “Thunder” Gatti. It was on this
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Dec. 10, 1958: Moore vs Durelle I
The story of Archie Moore is, above all else, one of perseverance. While generally not considered part of the famous
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Rivalries
The best boxing rivalries are about more than a series of action-packed fights. Great rivalries are stories, absorbing narratives that
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Nov. 30, 1956: Patterson vs Moore
In decades past, when undisputed heavyweight champions were the norm and not the exception, they inevitably created a great vacuum
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Fight City Legends: King of the Canebrakes
On this day way back in 1933, a young man, a fighter, lies close to death in a hospital bed
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Happy Birthday To “The Rock”
Today is the birthday of legendary heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano and we will always pay tribute to the one and only
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Light Heavyweights
Continuing our infrequent rankings of the all-time greatest boxers in each of the original eight weight classes, we offer our
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Aug. 11, 1954: Moore vs Johnson V
Until December of 1952, some eighteen years after he had embarked on what would eventually be an all-time great pro
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July 9, 1989: Rosario vs Jones
When we compare and rank boxers of the past, something all serious fight fans love to do, one of the
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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
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April 19, 1991: Holyfield vs Foreman
When news came in 1987 that former heavyweight champion George Foreman, who had retired ten years before to become an
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Rikki-Tikki-Harry
“….young Mr. Greb, acting like Mr. Kipling’s mongoose, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, bounced, caromed, slid and glided from so many angles and in
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March 13, 1963: Clay vs Jones
No matter how impressive the amateur credentials, or how good they look in the gym, you can never know what
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The Story Of The Cincinnati Cobra
Like anyone who identifies as something of a boxing diehard, I’m familiar with the name Ezzard Charles. However, if pressed
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The Fight City Podcast No. 43
Welcome to a new edition of our podcast, with Alden Chodash once again at the helm and offering you an
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Top 12 All-Time Most Cerebral Boxers
It takes more than strength, punching power and great conditioning to become a champion prizefighter. Mastery of footwork, angles, feinting,
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Catchers
On this day way back in 1922, the man they would come to call “The Bronx Bull” was born. Jake
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Heavyweights
At a very leisurely pace over the last couple of years, The Fight City has offered its own idiosyncratic rankings
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Light Heavyweight Mayhem
The famous middleweight “Murderer’s Row” of the 1940s, which in its prime featured Archie Moore, Ezzard Charles, Charley Burley, Lloyd
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Hit The Road, Andre
In November boxing got a rare treat: a showdown between two of the very best fighters in the sport, pound-for-pound.
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On Quitting
There’s quitting. And then there’s quitting. After all, this is boxing, the most dangerous of sports. Only a moron would
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Will Beterbiev Ignite The Light Heavyweights?
All dressed up, no place to go: that’s boxing’s light heavyweight division at the moment. So much talent, so many
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Furious Fisticuffs at Grant Brothers Pro-Am Event
You’re a boxing manager with a not uncommon problem: you have a talented and capable pugilist under contract, but no
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Hopkins Defeats Pascal: A Performance For The Aged
Psych jobs are nothing new in boxing. One can go all the way back to Jack Johnson, heavyweight champion from
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