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The 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 February 4, 2021 / By Neil Crane
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January 14, 1921: Leonard vs Mitchell

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, 2021 / 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 18, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Happy Birthday To The Old Master

Joe Gans was a pugilistic pioneer. He innovated many now common boxing techniques and his crafty ways and unmatched ring intelligence earned him the nickname “The Old Master.” ...
On November 25, 2020 / By Lee Wylie
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Nov. 1, 1922: Britton vs Walker II

It was that same old tale, the one we relive over and over again. The aging king refuses to move on and leave the cheers of the crowd ...
On November 1, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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The Greatest Lightweight Of All-Time

Earlier this month fight fans from around the world were focused on what everyone agreed was a highly significant showdown for the lightweight division as Vasiliy Lomachenko and ...
On October 28, 2020 / By Neil Crane
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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 greatest decades, the 1930’s, the Depression years, the glorious time of Kid Chocolate, Barney ...
On October 5, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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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, 2020 / 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 July 24, 2020 / 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 ...
On June 23, 2020 / 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, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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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 April 29, 2020 / By Alden Chodash
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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, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Top 12 All-Time Best Masters Of The Jab

With few exceptions, the jab is every fighter’s most fundamental weapon, the key punch that sets up all the others. Without it, a boxer cannot effectively establish rhythm, ...
On April 3, 2020 / By Neil Crane
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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 January 10, 2020 / By Neil Crane
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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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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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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

The Fight City

Montreal is The Fight City. Known in years past as "Sin City" and "Babylon on the St. Lawrence", it saw more than its share of ring legends over the decades. A metropolis where hundreds of young warriors train and battle each day in its many gyms, it is where Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Bernard Hopkins all found greatness. It is a city of fights and fighters, of hockey and heroes, of broken dreams and immortal glory, a city unlike any other. Montreal is The Fight City.

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