Browsing Tag Eddie Futch

  • Boxiana 7

    Jan. 28, 1974: Ali vs Frazier II

    That first historic Ali vs Frazier confrontation in 1971, without question one of the biggest sports events of all-time, took a significant toll on both “Smokin’ Joe” and ...

    On January 28, 2021 / By
  • Lee Wylie 4

    Muhammad Ali: The Fighter

    A few days ago the boxing world marked the anniversary of Muhammad Ali’s birth and so we keep the festivities and remembrances going with an in-depth appreciation of ...

    On January 20, 2021 / By
  • Boxiana 5

    Oct. 1, 1975: Ali vs Frazier III

    Forty-five years later, one still hears the echoes, the reverberations of that final, epic struggle between two boxing legends. After all, it was more than a heavyweight championship ...

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  • Boxiana 1

    Sept. 21, 1985: Holmes vs Spinks I

    In March of 1985, heavyweight champion Larry Holmes scored a tenth round stoppage of undefeated contender David Bey and then immediately announced that he was done. As in, ...

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    Aug. 29, 1992: Toney-McCallum II

    Some would argue that James Toney’s first victory over Mike McCallum, which also happened to be his final defense of his middleweight title, is, all things considered, his greatest ...

    On August 29, 2020 / By
  • Lee Wylie 2

    Eddie Futch: Deposing The Greatest

    There’s never a bad time to pay tribute to an all-time great trainer and boxing genius, but with tomorrow being the anniversary of the birth of the one-and-only ...

    On August 8, 2020 / By
  • Boxiana 0

    March 31, 1973: Ali vs Norton I

    Few deny that Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all-time, perhaps even “The Greatest,” and a major part of the evidence for that claim ...

    On March 30, 2020 / By
  • Features 6

    Glory Does Stay

    “If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.”  — James ...

    On March 16, 2020 / By
  • Lee Wylie 4

    Joe Louis: Mechanical Wonder

    “I could have struggled up once more, but when I get executed, people are going to have to pay more than twenty-five dollars a seat to watch it.”  ...

    On February 26, 2020 / By
  • Fight City Reviews 3

    The Blood Feud

    HBO’s 2008 film Thrilla In Manila is a sports documentary with an agenda; not necessarily a bad thing, but when a bias obscures and twists the truth, as happens here, ...

    On December 28, 2019 / By
  • Eddie Futch
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    On Eddie Futch

    Perhaps it’s just me but I get the feeling Eddie Futch , who was born 108 years ago tomorrow, wouldn’t be too comfortable in today’s boxing world. I ...

    On August 8, 2019 / By
  • Columns 0

    Ken Norton: 1943-2013

    A recent article on this website about one of Ken Norton’s finest performances referred to him as “a hard-luck fighter.” It discussed the fact that Norton had the ...

    On September 20, 2013 / By
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