Browsing Tag Benny Leonard

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  Top 12 All-Time Worst Cheap Shots

  All intentional fouls or blindside hits are cheap, but for this list we define a “cheap shot,” also known as a “sucker punch,” as a blow rendered when ...

  On October 13, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  Oct. 7, 1932: McLarnin vs Leonard

  In boxing, the spectacle of a once-great champion humbled by Father Time is both profoundly disturbing and, sadly, all too common. With precious few exceptions, the finest fighters ...

  On October 7, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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  Oct. 5, 1936: Canzoneri vs McLarnin II

  Tony Canzoneri vs Jimmy McLarnin. Two of the very best from one of boxing’s great eras, the 1930’s, the Depression years, the glorious decade of Kid Chocolate, Barney ...

  On October 5, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  Benny Leonard: Ring General

  Some while back, Lee Wylie offered another of his excellent analysis videos, this one a tribute to the one-and-only Benny Leonard. But like the artist he is, Wylie ...

  On July 30, 2019 / By Lee Wylie
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  July 27, 1922: Leonard vs Tendler I

  There is no disputing the oft-repeated truth that Benny Leonard will forever stand as one of the finest boxers who has ever lived. Not as well known is ...

  On July 27, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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  June 22, 1979: Duran vs Palomino

  If one were to rank the finest performances of the great Roberto Duran, his ten round win at New York’s Madison Square Garden over former welterweight champ Carlos Palomino should ...

  On June 23, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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  Fight City Legends: The Smoke City Wildcat

  They called them the Roaring Twenties, that crazy decade following World War I when the economy boomed, “speakeasies” opened on every other corner, the “flappers” started showing a ...

  On June 6, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  Fight City Legends: The Ghetto Wizard

  In the long history of boxing there have been many master trainers, gurus of the ring who made it their life’s work to mould young men into pugilists. ...

  On April 7, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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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, defense and the ability to adapt to an ...

  On February 22, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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  Jan. 14, 1921: Leonard vs Mitchell II

  It’s a cold night in New York City but Benny Leonard and Richie Mitchell provide more than a little heat with one of the greatest opening rounds in ...

  On January 14, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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  Fight City Legends: The Belfast Spider

  As anyone who has contemplated the history of pugilism already knows, no sport offers more when it comes to heartbreak and tragedy. From the trusting, dedicated fighter who ...

  On December 19, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Masters Of The Jab

  With few exceptions, the jab is a boxer’s most fundamental weapon, the key punch that sets up all the others. Without it, a boxer cannot effectively establish rhythm, ...

  On November 2, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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  Nov. 1, 1922: Britton vs Walker II

  It was that same old tale, the one we must relive over and over again. The aging champion refuses to move on and leave the cheers of the ...

  On November 1, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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  Fight City Legends: Gentleman Jim

  “From my first fight I started to run away.” James John Corbett, often referred to as “Gentleman Jim,” never cared much for the brutish nature of the sport ...

  On September 26, 2018 / By Alden Chodash
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  Top 12 All-Time Cockiest Boxers

  There’s confident, and then there’s cocky, the former being expected of any prizefighter with the guts to step into the ring, but the latter taking confidence and turning ...

  On July 24, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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  The Golden Door

  Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I ...

  On July 8, 2018 / By Daniel Attias
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  Top 12 All-Time Greatest Lightweights

  We continue our periodic series ranking the all-time best boxers in the original eight weight classes by today casting our discerning eye on the lightweights. For simplicity’s sake, ...

  On February 21, 2018 / By Neil Crane
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  Happy Birthday, Old Master

  Joe Gans was one of boxing’s first true masters. He pioneered many now common boxing techniques and his crafty ways and unmatched ring intelligence earned him the nickname ...

  On November 25, 2017 / By Lee Wylie
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  Benny Leonard: Commander of the Ring

  Benny Leonard, aka “The Ghetto Wizard,” remains, without a doubt, one of the greatest boxers, pound-for-pound, to ever enter a ring. And in his latest video, Lee Wylie ...

  On January 10, 2015 / By Lee Wylie