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June 4, 1971: Napoles vs Backus II

Cuba’s messy political issues in the last half-century have made for countless stories of struggle and triumph, though more the former than anything else. From rafting across shark-infested ...
On June 4, 2021 / By Patrick Connor
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Feb. 28, 1973: Napoles vs Lopez II

They call boxing the cruelest sport for a number of reasons, one of them being that no matter how talented or dedicated a boxer is, his success ultimately ...
On February 28, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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Feb. 2, 1980: Sanchez vs Lopez I

Danny “Little Red” Lopez had won the WBC version of the featherweight crown in 1976 and no one begrudged him the title. This was because Lopez, contrary to ...
On February 2, 2021 / By Michael Carbert
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Salvador Sanchez: Counterpunch

“I’m convinced that Salvador Sanchez was the best Mexican fighter of all time. Even better than Julio Cesar Chavez.” — Wilfredo Gomez “The greatest Mexican fighter of all-time ...
On January 26, 2021 / By Lee Wylie
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Jan. 24, 1982: Pedroza vs Laporte

Few champions have ever won as many world title matches as Panama’s Eusebio Pedroza and yet the prolific featherweight’s career is defined more by who he didn’t fight ...
On January 24, 2021 / By Robert Portis
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Jan. 14, 1984: Mancini vs Chacon

Boxing is not an old man’s sport and over the decades there have been plenty of what we might call “passing-the-torch” fights, when age gives way to younger ...
On January 14, 2021 / By Joshua Isard
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Las Glorias del Gran Puas

“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” — George Best The Northern Ireland footballer’s famous quip is less ...
On November 20, 2020 / By Rafael García
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Nov. 16, 1979: Arguello vs Chacon

Bobby Chacon had been an overnight sensation in California, a popular young fighter attracting big crowds to the Inglewood Forum and the Olympic Auditorium. But as quickly as ...
On November 16, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Sun Kil Moon: “Salvador Sanchez”

In Salvador Sanchez, singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek walks amongst men who died much too soon. Such deaths are tragic by definition, but in the case of the men depicted ...
On August 12, 2020 / By Rafael García
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July 21, 1982: Sanchez vs Nelson

There’s that old 1960s query: what if they had a war and no one came? Considering the 1982 clash between featherweights Salvador Sanchez and Azumah Nelson, the better ...
On July 21, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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Top 12 All-Time Greatest Featherweights

We’ve ranked the all-time greatest middleweights, bantamweights, light heavyweights and flyweights. Now we turn to the featherweights and offer our ranking of the best to ever lace up ...
On August 14, 2019 / By Robert Portis
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Who Is The Greatest Mexican Boxer?

Michael Carbert: Several years ago I wrote up a Top 12 Greatest All-Time Mexican Boxers list and to my delight, it inspired some consternation. I’ve wanted to revisit ...
On December 28, 2018 / By Rafael García
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Remembering Bobby Chacon

Sometimes the price of glory is steep and painful. In the case of Bobby Chacon, it would appear, at least to those who have never known what it ...
On September 7, 2016 / By Robert Portis

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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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