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Oct. 5, 1936: Canzoneri vs McLarnin II

October 5, 2021October 8, 2021 Robert Portis 0 Comments Barney Ross, Benny Leonard, Henry Armstrong, Jimmy McLarnin, Joe Louis, Kid Chocolate, Lou Ambers, Tony Canzoneri

Tony Canzoneri vs Jimmy McLarnin. Two of the very best from one of boxing’s greatest decades, the 1930’s, the Depression

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Sept. 3, 1936: Ambers vs Canzoneri

September 3, 2021September 6, 2021 Robert Portis 0 Comments Barney Ross, Billy Petrolle, Jimmy McLarnin, Lou Ambers, Tony Canzoneri

Tony Canzoneri was already a lock for the Hall of Fame, not to mention an all-time great lightweight when he

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Aug. 17, 1938: Armstrong vs Ambers I

August 17, 2021August 20, 2021 Robert Portis 2 Comments Armstrong vs Ambers, Baby Arizmendi, Barney Ross, Henry Armstrong, Homicide Hank, Lou Ambers, New York

There is only one way to become a truly great boxer and that is to compete against other truly great

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May 31, 1938: Ross vs Armstrong

May 31, 2021June 3, 2021 Michael Carbert 3 Comments Al Capone, Barney Ross, Billy Petrolle, Ceferino Garcia, chicago, Henry Armstrong, Jimmy McLarnin, Lou Ambers, Madison Square Garden, New York, Tony Canzoneri

Barney Ross was more than just one of the best boxers who ever lived. A Jew whose life was largely

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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Chins

April 9, 2021April 12, 2021 Robert Portis 12 Comments Barney Ross, Carlos Monzon, Carmen Basilio, Earnie Shavers, George Chuvalo, George Foreman, Jake LaMotta, Jerry Quarry, Joe Frazier, Kid Gavilan, Marvin Hagler, Muhammad Ali, Panama Al Brown, Randall "Tex" Cobb

A pugilist’s last line of defense is the durability of his mandible and of course no one doubts that a

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Fight City Legends: The Ghetto Wizard

April 7, 2021April 9, 2021 Michael Carbert 0 Comments Barney Ross, Benny Leonard, Jimmy McLarnin, Joe Gans, Ray Arcel, Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Robinson

In the long history of boxing there have been many master trainers, gurus of the ring who made it their

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The Prizefighter And The Lady

February 23, 2021July 24, 2021 Rihn & Curcio 0 Comments Barney Ross, Billy Papke, cinema, Clark Gable, Ernie Schaff, Frank Moran, Frankie Campbell, Hollywood, Jack Dempsey, Jess Willard, Lennox Lewis, Max Baer, movies, Primo Carnera, The Prizefighter And The Lady, Wladimir Klitschko

Boxing and cinema have always had a warm relationship. In fact, the very first feature film in the history of

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Jan. 4, 1940: Armstrong vs Ghnouly

January 4, 2021August 21, 2021 Michael Carbert 0 Comments Baby Arizmendi, Barney Ross, Benny Bass, Boxing, Boxing history, Chalky Wright, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Frankie Klick, Fritzie Zivic, Henry Armstrong, Joe Ghnouly, Juan Zurita, Lew Feldman, Lew Jenkins, Lou Ambers, Pedro Montanez, Petey Sarron, TBE

As Marvin Gaye sang back in the day, “Ain’t nothin’ like the real thing, baby,” and these days how boxing

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Fight City Legends: The Belfast Spider

December 18, 2020December 20, 2020 Michael Carbert 4 Comments Barney Ross, Benny Leonard, Billy Petrolle, Jimmy McLarnin, Tony Canzoneri

As anyone who has contemplated the history of pugilism already knows, no sport offers more when it comes to heartbreak

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Nov. 16, 1979: Arguello vs Chacon

November 16, 2020November 19, 2020 Michael Carbert 0 Comments Alexis Arguello, Alfredo Escalera, Barney Ross, Bob Fitzsimmons, Bobby Chacon, Danny Lopez, Henry Armstrong, Roberto Duran, Ruben Olivares, Tony Canzoneri

Bobby Chacon had been an overnight sensation in California, a popular young fighter attracting big crowds to the Inglewood Forum

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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Rivalries

September 5, 2020September 13, 2020 Michael Carbert 2 Comments Ali vs Frazier, Archie Moore, Arturo Gatti, Barney Ross, Gene Fullmer, Henry Armstrong, Jake LaMotta, Joe Frazier, Joe Gans, Juan Manuel Marquez, Ken Norton, Manny Pacquiao, Muhammad Ali, Roberto Duran, Rocky Graziano, Sam Langford, Sandy Saddler, Sugar Ray Robinson, Tony Zale, Ward vs Gatti, Willie Pep

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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Top 12 Greatest Roberto Duran Victories

July 3, 2020May 19, 2021 Patrick Connor 5 Comments Barney Ross, Carlos Palomino, davey moore, Edwin Viruet, Esteban DeJesus, Hector Thompson, Henry Armstrong, Iran Barkley, Ken Buchanan, Ray Lampkin, Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard

Seems like we had just finished celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first great Duran vs Leonard battle when the

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Top 12 All-Time Best Welterweights

November 13, 2019April 26, 2020 Robert Portis 19 Comments Barney Ross, Carmen Basilio, Curtis Cokes, Emile Griffith, Felix Trinidad, Fritzie Zivic, Henry Armstrong, Jack Britton, Jimmy McLarnin, joe walcott, Jose Napoles, Kid Gavilan, Luis Rodriguez, Manny Pacquiao, Mickey Walker, Oscar De La Hoya, Pipino Cuevas, Roberto Duran, Shane Mosley, Sugar Ray Leonard, Sugar Ray Robinson, Thomas Hearns, Wilfred Benitez

Our ratings of the all-time greatest fighters in each of the traditional eight weight classes continues with a look at

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Oct. 7, 1932: McLarnin vs Leonard

October 7, 2019September 2, 2021 Michael Carbert 0 Comments Barney Ross, Benny Leonard, Boxing, Jimmy McLarnin, Madison Square Garden, New York City, The Ghetto Wizard, Willie Ritchie

In boxing, the spectacle of a once-great champion humbled by Father Time is both profoundly disturbing and, sadly, all too

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The Golden Door

July 8, 2018July 8, 2018 Daniel Attias 2 Comments Barney Ross, Benny Leonard, Budd Schulberg, Chris Mannix, Christopher Klein, Emma Lazarus, Gennady Golovkin, George Dixon, Jack Johnson, Jack Slack, Joe Gans, John L. Sullivan, Maxie Rosenbloom, Statue of Liberty

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

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Explosive Potential: 147 Should Be Boxing’s Hottest Division

June 1, 2018June 4, 2018 Sean Crose 0 Comments Barney Ross, Danny Garcia, Errol Spence Jr, Henry Armstrong, Jack Britton, Jeff Horn, Keith Thurman, Kid Gavilan, Lucas Matthysse, Manny Pacquiao, Mickey Walker, Shawn Porter, Sugar Ray Leonard, Sugar Ray Robinson, Terrence Crawford, Thomas Hearns, welterweights

It was, until recently, the premier division in boxing, the weight class with the most elite-level talents and the most

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Japanese Boxing: From Harada to Inoue

June 3, 2015October 10, 2020 Zach Dunn 0 Comments Barney Ross, Billy Dib, Eder Jofre, Jamie McDonnell, Kiko Martinez, Manny Elias, Masahiko Harada, Mikey Garcia, Naoya Inoue, Nihito Arakawa, Omar Figueroa, Omar Narvaez, Roman Gonzalez, Shinsuke Yamanka, Takashi Miura, Takashi Uchiyama, Tomoki Kameda

On May 31st, 1966 two of boxing’s great little men clashed for a second time, seeking to conclude their rivalry

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July 26, 2008: Cotto vs Margarito I

July 26, 2021July 29, 2021 Eliott McCormick 1

Few championship fights in recent history have been marred by a controversy as serious as that which attended Cotto vs

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Sept. 28, 1976: Ali vs Norton III

September 28, 2021October 8, 2021 Michael Carbert 19

In a time of constant media exposure and fifteen second attention spans, it is almost impossible to fully appreciate the

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Sept. 29, 1967: Griffith vs Benvenuti II

September 30, 2021October 3, 2021 Patrick Connor 0

“I would have quit, but I didn’t know how to do anything else but fight.” Beyond the mythologies and whimsical

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Aug. 9, 1980: Palma vs Randolph

August 9, 2020August 11, 2020 Robert Portis 0

In 1976, a group of young athletes journeyed to Montreal to fight for their country. There were no great expectations