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Eighty Fights From The 80’s (Part Two)

We know you’ve barely started sampling all the great battles we listed yesterday in Part One of this list, but we promised, and so we deliver: here’s the ...
On May 13, 2020 / By Ronnie McCluskey
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Feb. 19, 2000: Morales vs Barrera I

No one can really pin down how the animosity began. Perhaps it was a regional rivalry with Erik Morales hailing from the working class region of Zona Norte, ...
On February 19, 2020 / By Rene Ricardo Bernal
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Sept. 6, 1997: Zaragoza vs Morales

It was the classic confrontation: age and experience vs youth and raw talent. Southpaw Daniel Zaragoza was the grizzled veteran, a survivor of 65 professional battles and some 21 ...
On September 6, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Aug. 31, 1989: Zaragoza vs Duarte

In the late 1920s the term “Cauliflower Row” came to be used to describe the fight racket. It was the perfect name, directly referring to the disfigured ears ...
On August 31, 2019 / By Patrick Connor
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Aug. 28, 1976: Zarate vs Ferreri

Paul Ferreri never really stood a chance. No one expected the scrappy kid to put up much of a fight but he had won the lottery and a ...
On August 28, 2019 / By Zach Dunn
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Adios, Dinamita

Greatness has a soft spot for grit. In the ring, Juan Manuel Marquez had grit in spades. He showed it practically every time he stepped between the ropes. ...
On August 11, 2017 / By Rafael García
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest All-Mexican Fights

As we get set for the Cinco de Mayo extravaganza of an all-Mexican showdown tonight between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., what better time could ...
On May 6, 2017 / By Rafael García
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Erik Morales: First Mexican to Win 4 in 4

In celebration of #MexicanStyle week we bring you Rafael’s write up of Erik “Terrible” Morales’ historic title-winning effort of September 17, 2011, when he defeated Pablo Cesar Cano ...
On August 28, 2015 / By Rafael García

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